9-letter words containing s, h, u, a
- clianthus — any Australian or New Zealand plant of the leguminous genus Clianthus, with ornamental clusters of slender scarlet flowers
- clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.
- coalhouse — a shed or building for storing coal
- coauthors — Plural form of coauthor.
- crash out — If someone crashes out somewhere, they fall asleep where they are because they are very tired or drunk.
- crush bar — a bar at a theatre for serving drinks during the intervals of a play
- crushable — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- cup shake — wind shake.
- dachshund — A dachshund is a small dog that has very short legs, a long body, and long ears.
- dalhousie — 9th Earl of, title of George Ramsay. 1770–1838, British general; governor of the British colonies in Canada (1819–28)
- daughters — Plural form of daughter.
- deadhouse — a mortuary
- debauches — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- dichasium — a cymose inflorescence in which each branch bearing a flower gives rise to two other flowering branches, as in the stitchwort
- drumheads — Plural form of drumhead.
- duathlons — Plural form of duathlon.
- dust bath — the action of a bird of driving dust into its feathers, which may dislodge parasites
- dust head — a habitual user of angel dust.
- dyushambe — a former name of Dushanbe.
- esophagus — The part of the alimentary canal that connects the throat to the stomach; the gullet. In humans and other vertebrates it is a muscular tube lined with mucous membrane.
- eucharist — The Eucharist is the Christian religious ceremony in which Christ's last meal with his disciples is celebrated by eating bread and drinking wine.
- eulachons — Plural form of eulachon.
- euphausid — (zoology) Any member of the Euphausidae.
- euphrasia — eyebright
- euphrates — a river in SW Asia, rising in E Turkey and flowing south across Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris, forming the Shatt-al-Arab, which flows to the head of the Persian Gulf: important in ancient times for the extensive irrigation of its valley (in Mesopotamia). Length: 3598 km (2235 miles)
- eurotrash — fashionable Europeans, traveling or living abroad, of a type regarded variously as pretentious, shallow, irresponsible, parasitic, etc.
- euthanase — (UK) Alternative form of euthanize.
- euthanise — (transitive, British) alternative spelling of euthanize.
- exhausted — Drained of one's physical or mental resources; very tired.
- exhauster — (obsolete) exhaust, exhaust pipe.
- farmhouse — a house on a farm, especially the one used by the farmer and farmer's family.
- fishguard — a port and resort in SW Wales, in Pembrokeshire: ferry connections to Cork and Rosslare. Pop: 3193 (2001)
- flash gun — a device that simultaneously discharges a flashbulb and operates a camera shutter.
- flashbulb — a glass bulb, filled with oxygen and aluminum or zirconium wire or foil, which, when ignited electrically, burns with a brilliant flash to provide momentary illumination of a subject.
- flashcube — a cube, for attaching to a camera, that contains a flashbulb in each vertical side and rotates automatically for taking four flash pictures in succession.
- flashguns — Plural form of flashgun.
- flashtube — electronic flash.
- flushable — (of a toilet) That has a flushing mechanism.
- forasmuch — Inasmuch, seeing (that).
- fukushima — a city on N Honshu, in N Japan.
- funabashi — a city in E central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay.
- gatehouse — a house at or over a gate, used as a gatekeeper's quarters, fortification, etc.
- gauchesco — of or relating to gauchos
- goulashes — Plural form of goulash.
- guardship — a warship responsible for the safety of other ships in its company
- guarulhos — a city in SE Brazil, NE of São Paulo.
- 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.
- hairbrush — a brush for smoothing and styling the hair.
- half-shut — partially closed
- half-used — previously used or owned; secondhand: a used car.