9-letter words containing s, h, o
- cold fish — If you say that someone is a cold fish, you think that they are unfriendly and unemotional.
- 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
- colophons — Plural form of colophon.
- coltishly — In a coltish manner.
- conchfish — a cardinalfish, Astropogon stellatus, of the Atlantic Ocean.
- conchitis — inflammation of the outer ear
- consumeth — Archaic third-person singular form of consume.
- cook shop — a shop that sells cookery equipment
- cookhouse — a place for cooking, esp a camp kitchen
- cookshack — a makeshift building in which food is cooked
- coolhouse — a greenhouse in which a cool temperature is maintained
- coolibahs — Plural form of coolibah.
- copperish — resembling copper
- copy shop — a business that provides copies of documents or prints documents
- copyholds — Plural form of copyhold.
- corfhouse — a shed used for curing salmon and storing nets
- cornbrash — a type of limestone which produces good soil for growing corn
- cornhouse — a corncrib.
- cornhusks — Plural form of cornhusk.
- corniches — Plural form of corniche.
- coronachs — Plural form of coronach.
- coshering — Present participle of cosher.
- coshocton — a city in E central Ohio.
- cosphered — sharing the same sphere
- 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.
- cow horse — cow pony.
- cow shark — any large primitive shark, esp Hexanchus griseum, of the family Hexanchidae of warm and temperate waters
- cowfishes — Plural form of cowfish.
- crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
- crash out — If someone crashes out somewhere, they fall asleep where they are because they are very tired or drunk.
- crash-hot — extremely impressive
- cristophe — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), ("Henri I"I) 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary general, born in Grenada: king 1811–20.
- cromlechs — Plural form of cromlech.
- crossed-h — a constant used in quantum mechanics, equal to the Planck constant divided by 2π. It has a value of 1.054571596±0.000000078 × 10 −34 joule seconds
- crossfish — a starfish
- crosshair — either of the two fine mutually perpendicular lines or wires that cross in the focal plane of a theodolite, gunsight, or other optical instrument and are used to define the line of sight
- crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
- crotchets — Plural form of crotchet.
- crumhorns — Plural form of crumhorn.
- ctesiphon — an ancient city on the River Tigris about 100 km (60 miles) above Babylon. First mentioned in 221 bc, it was destroyed in the 7th and 8th centuries ad
- cushioned — provided with cushions
- cushionet — a small cushion
- cut short — to stop abruptly before the end
- cybershop — Purchase or shop for goods and services on a website.
- cyphonism — An ancient form of punishment involving a sort of wooden pillory by which the victim's neck was bent or weighed downward.