8-letter words containing s, h, u, n
- manhours — Plural form of manhour.
- manhunts — Plural form of manhunt.
- minshuku — a guesthouse
- muchness — Archaic. greatness, as in quantity, measure, or degree.
- muishond — A species of weasel found in southern Africa, Poecilogale albinucha.
- munchies — crunchy or chewy. Informal. for snacking: munchy foods like popcorn and cookies.
- nautches — Plural form of nautch.
- newhouse — Samuel I(rving) 1895–1979, U.S. publisher.
- nishapur — a town in NE Iran: the birthplace of Omar Khayyám.
- nonesuch — a person or thing without equal; paragon.
- nucflash — a report of highest precedence notifying the president, secretary of defense, or their deputies of an accidental or unauthorized nuclear-weapon launch or of a nuclear attack.
- numbfish — an electric ray, so called from its power of numbing its prey by means of electric shocks.
- nut dash — a dash equal in length to the width of an en quad; en dash.
- nuthouse — a mental hospital; insane asylum.
- nutshell — the shell of a nut.
- olynthus — an ancient city in NE Greece, on the Chalcidice Peninsula.
- onrushes — Plural form of onrush.
- ourinhos — a city in E Brazil.
- outshine — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- outshone — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- pentheus — the grandson of Cadmus and his successor as king of Thebes, who resisted the introduction of the cult of Dionysus. In revenge the god drove him mad and he was torn to pieces by a group of bacchantes, one of whom was his mother
- punisher — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- pushdown — a list in which the last item added is at the top
- quashing — Present participle of quash.
- quenches — to slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.).
- rhonchus — a wheezing or snoring sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by an accumulation of mucus or other material.
- roundish — somewhat round: a roundish man; roundish furniture.
- schumann — Clara (Clara Wieck) 1819–96, German pianist and composer (wife of Robert Schumann).
- scrunchy — an elastic band covered with gathered fabric, used to fasten the hair, as in a ponytail.
- seahound — a dogfish
- shangqiu — a city in E Henan province, in E China.
- shantung — Shandong.
- shea nut — the seed of the shea tree and the source of shea butter.
- shenzhou — any of a series of manned Chinese spacecraft
- shouting — loud cries, yells
- shrunken — a past participle of shrink.
- shucking — a husk or pod, as the outer covering of corn, hickory nuts, chestnuts, etc.
- shunless — unable to be shunned
- shunning — to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.
- shunpike — a side road taken instead of a turnpike or expressway to avoid tolls or to travel at a leisurely pace.
- shunting — the act or job of manoeuvring coaches
- shuriken — a martial-arts weapon usually in the shape of a star or cross with sharp protruding edges, thrown with a spin towards the target
- shutdown — a shutting down, as of a factory, school, or machine; a termination or suspension of operations, services, or business activity: a partial government shutdown; an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor.
- sihanouk — Prince Norodom [nawr-uh-dom,, -duh m] /ˈnɔr əˌdɒm,, -dəm/ (Show IPA), 1922–2004, Cambodian statesman: premier 1952–60; chief of state 1960–70 and 1975–76.
- snoutish — rather resembling a snout
- snowbush — any of several ornamental shrubs having a profusion of white flowers, as Ceanothus cordulatus, of the buckthorn family, native to western North America.
- snubbish — somewhat snub
- souchong — a variety of black tea grown in India and Sri Lanka.
- southern — lying toward, situated in, or directed toward the south.
- southing — a cardinal point of the compass lying directly opposite north. Abbreviation: S.