9-letter words containing s, h, o, u
- housewife — Sometimes Offensive. a married woman who manages her own household, especially as her principal occupation.
- housewive — (transitive) To manage with skill and economy.
- housework — the work of cleaning, cooking, etc., to be done in housekeeping.
- houstonia — any North American plant, belonging to the genus Houstonia, of the madder family, especially H. caerulea, the common bluet.
- hugeously — hugely
- huguenots — a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.
- humanoids — Plural form of humanoid.
- humongous — extraordinarily large.
- humorists — Plural form of humorist.
- humorless — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- humorsome — Alternative form of humoursome.
- humourist — (British) alternative spelling of humorist.
- humourous — (chiefly, UK, uncommon, nonstandard) alternative spelling of humorous.
- humungous — humongous.
- huskisson — William, 1770–1830, British statesman and financier.
- hutcheson — Francis. 1694–1746, Scottish philosopher: he published books on ethics and aesthetics, including System of Moral Philosophy (1755)
- hybridous — of or relating to a hybrid
- hypocaust — a hollow space or system of channels in the floor or walls of some ancient Roman buildings that provided a central heating system by receiving and distributing the heat from a furnace.
- hypogeous — underground; subterranean.
- hypotonus — Hypotonia.
- ice house — a building for storing ice.
- icehouses — Plural form of icehouse.
- in chorus — Music. a group of persons singing in unison. (in an opera, oratorio, etc.) such a group singing choral parts in connection with soloists or individual singers. a piece of music for singing in unison. a part of a song that recurs at intervals, usually following each verse; refrain.
- isanthous — having regular flowers.
- jailhouse — a jail or building used as a jail.
- jump shot — a shot with one or both hands in which a player leaps into the air and shoots the ball at the basket at the moment of reaching the highest point of the leap.
- junk shop — a shop selling miscellaneous secondhand goods
- junk shot — a procedure used for stemming the flow of oil from a leaking well in which debris (such as shredded tyres, golf balls, etc) is pumped into the well at high pressure
- kaohsiung — a seaport on SW Taiwan.
- krumhorns — Plural form of krumhorn.
- kuniyoshi — Yasuo [yah-soo-aw] /yɑˈsu ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1953, U.S. painter, born in Japan.
- laughsome — (rare) Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
- lecherous — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
- lichenous — of, relating to, or resembling a lichen.
- limehouse — a dock district in the East End of London, England, once notorious for its squalor: formerly a Chinese quarter.
- liquorish — fond of and eager for choice food.
- lockhouse — the house of a lock-keeper
- longhouse — a communal dwelling, especially of the Iroquois and various other North American Indian peoples, consisting of a wooden, bark-covered framework often as much as 100 feet (30.5 meters) in length.
- loutishly — In a loutish manner.
- luncheons — Plural form of luncheon.
- lustihood — lustiness; vigor.
- madhouses — Plural form of madhouse.
- malthouse — A building in which malt is prepared and stored.
- mascouche — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- masthouse — a place, usually in a dockyard, in which masts are stored
- methodius — Saint (Apostle of the Slavs) a.d. c825–885, Greek missionary in Moravia (brother of Saint Cyril).
- millhouse — a building that houses milling machinery, especially of flour.
- mogadishu — an independent republic on the E coast of Africa, formed from the former British Somaliland and the former Italian Somaliland. 246,198 sq. mi. (637,653 sq. km). Capital: Mogadishu.
- monohulls — Plural form of monohull.
- mousefish — sargassumfish.