9-letter words containing s, h, r, o, u
- fox brush — the tail of a fox.
- fresh out — newly short of sth
- furloughs — Plural form of furlough.
- gold rush — a large-scale and hasty movement of people to a region where gold has been discovered, as to California in 1849.
- guarulhos — a city in SE Brazil, NE of São Paulo.
- gütersloh — a town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 95 928 (2003 est)
- hadrosaur — a bipedal dinosaur of the genus Hadrosaurus, belonging to the ornithopod family Hadrosauridae of the late Cretaceous Period, having broad, flat jaws for scooping up water plants.
- harborous — welcoming and offering hospitality
- haushofer — Karl, 1860–1946, German geographer and general: political adviser to Hitler.
- haustoria — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
- hazardous — full of risk; perilous; risky: a hazardous journey.
- herodotus — 484?–425? b.c, Greek historian.
- hilarious — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- hircinous — (rare) Of, or pertaining to goats; hircine.
- honourous — Rare spelling of honorous.
- hornpouts — Plural form of hornpout.
- hourglass — an instrument for measuring time, consisting of two bulbs of glass joined by a narrow passage through which a quantity of sand or mercury runs in just an hour.
- house red — a red wine sold unnamed by a restaurant, at a lower price than wines specified on the wine list
- housecarl — a member of the household troops or bodyguard of a Danish or early English king or noble.
- housegirl — A young woman employed to do housework.
- houseroom — lodging or accommodation in a house.
- houseware — Homeware.
- housework — the work of cleaning, cooking, etc., to be done in housekeeping.
- 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.
- hybridous — of or relating to a hybrid
- 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.
- krumhorns — Plural form of krumhorn.
- lecherous — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
- liquorish — fond of and eager for choice food.
- murchison — an intermittent river in W Australia, flowing SW to the Indian Ocean. 440 miles (708 km) long.
- mushrooms — Plural form of mushroom.
- mushroomy — Redolent of mushrooms.
- nothosaur — An extinct semiaquatic carnivorous reptile of the Triassic period, having a slender body and long neck, related to the plesiosaurs.
- nourished — Simple past tense and past participle of nourish.
- nourisher — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- nourishes — Plural form of nourish.
- off-hours — an hour or other period when a person is not at a job: I spend my off-hours reading.
- onrushing — Rushing or flowing forward.
- outparish — a parish located outside the boundaries of or at a distance from a town or city; an outlying parish.
- outrights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outright.
- outsearch — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- outthrows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outthrow.
- outthrust — thrust or extended outward: a friendly, outthrust hand.
- overbrush — To brush excessively.
- overflush — too flush
- phytosaur — any armored, semiaquatic reptile of the extinct order Phytosauria, of the Mesozoic Era, resembling the crocodile but unrelated, having the nostrils high on the snout and with well-developed hind limbs suggestive of bipedal ancestors.