9-letter words containing s, h, o, u
- brushwork — An artist's brushwork is their way of using their brush to put paint on a canvas and the effect that this has in the picture.
- buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone
- bunkhouse — (in the US and Canada) a building containing the sleeping quarters of workers on a ranch
- burroughs — Edgar Rice. 1875–1950, US novelist, author of the Tarzan stories
- bush coat — a belted, hip-length, shirtlike jacket, usually with four patch pockets and a notched collar, adapted from the hunting coat customarily worn in the African bush.
- bush hook — Dialect. a tool with a curved blade and long handle used to cut bushes and undergrowth.
- bush road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
- bushwoman — a woman who lives in the bush
- cathouses — Plural form of cathouse.
- ceanothus — any shrub of the North American rhamnaceous genus Ceanothus: grown for their ornamental, often blue, flower clusters
- cellhouse — a prison building containing separate cells, each usually intended for one or two prisoners.
- cephalous — having a head
- chancrous — (medicine) Of the nature of a chancre; affected by chancre.
- chargeous — (obsolete) burdensome.
- checkouts — Plural form of checkout.
- chitinous — a nitrogen-containing polysaccharide, related chemically to cellulose, that forms a semitransparent horny substance and is a principal constituent of the exoskeleton, or outer covering, of insects, crustaceans, and arachnids.
- choose up — to decide on the opposing players, as for an impromptu ballgame
- chop suey — Chop suey is a Chinese-style dish that consists of meat and vegetables that have been stewed together.
- chophouse — a restaurant specializing in steaks, grills, chops, etc
- chorusing — Present participle of chorus.
- chorussed — Simple past tense and past participle of chorus.
- chudskoye — Lakelake on the Estonian-Russian border: with its S extension, Lake Pskov, c. 1,400 sq mi (3,626 sq km)
- churrasco — meat cooked over an open fire.
- clubhouse — A clubhouse is a place where the members of a club, especially a sports club, meet.
- coalhouse — a shed or building for storing coal
- coauthors — Plural form of coauthor.
- cohousing — a type of housing with some shared facilities
- cold shut — A cold shut is a fault in the surface of a piece of metal caused by two streams of molten metal not joining properly when the piece is being cast.
- coldhouse — an unheated greenhouse
- consumeth — Archaic third-person singular form of consume.
- cookhouse — a place for cooking, esp a camp kitchen
- coolhouse — a greenhouse in which a cool temperature is maintained
- corfhouse — a shed used for curing salmon and storing nets
- cornhouse — a corncrib.
- cornhusks — Plural form of cornhusk.
- cost-push — of or relating to cost-push inflation: a proponent of the cost-push theory.
- cothurnus — the buskin worn in ancient Greek tragedy
- couchings — the act of a person or thing that couches.
- countship — the rank or position of a count.
- courtship — Courtship is the activity of courting or the time during which a man and a woman are courting.
- crash out — If someone crashes out somewhere, they fall asleep where they are because they are very tired or drunk.
- crumhorns — Plural form of crumhorn.
- cushioned — provided with cushions
- cushionet — a small cushion
- cut short — to stop abruptly before the end
- dalhousie — 9th Earl of, title of George Ramsay. 1770–1838, British general; governor of the British colonies in Canada (1819–28)
- deadhouse — a mortuary
- debouches — to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops: The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.
- deckhouse — a houselike cabin on the deck of a ship
- dirhinous — having paired nostrils.