9-letter words containing a, c, u, s, o
- limaceous — Characteristic of slugs (of the family Limacidae).
- local bus — (hardware) A bus connecting a processor to memory, usually on the same circuit board as opposed to a backplane and therefore faster. Various proprietary local busses for personal computers are still in use. The most common are Vesa local bus (VLB or VL), and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI). Some computers, e.g. notebook computers, use a local bus with no expansion slots. Previous non-local bus standards include ISA, EISA and MCA.
- macrotous — having large ears
- macrurous — long-tailed, as a lobster (opposed to brachyurous).
- malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- marruecos — Spanish name of Morocco.
- mascouche — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- micaceous — consisting of, containing, or resembling mica.
- minacious — menacing; threatening.
- molluscan — Relating to mollusks.
- moraceous — belonging to the Moraceae, the mulberry family of plants.
- moustache — the hair growing on the upper lip.
- musaceous — belonging to the Musaceae, the banana family of plants.
- muscavado — muscovado.
- muscovado — raw or unrefined sugar, obtained from the juice of the sugar cane by evaporating and draining off the molasses.
- mustachio — a mustache.
- nectarous — of the nature of or resembling nectar.
- noncampus — not located on a campus of a university, corporation, or any other business or organization
- noncasual — not casual
- noncausal — of, constituting, or implying a cause.
- nugacious — trivial; unimportant or insignificant; nugatory.
- obfuscate — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
- occupants — Plural form of occupant.
- ocularist — a person who makes artificial eyes
- oleaceous — belonging to the Oleaceae, the olive family of plants.
- on-campus — on the area of land that contains the main buildings of a university or college
- oraculous — resembling an oracle
- osculated — Simple past tense and past participle of osculate.
- osculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of osculate.
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- outcasted — Simple past tense and past participle of outcaste.
- outcastes — Plural form of outcaste.
- outscream — to scream louder than
- 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.
- oversauce — to put too much sauce on
- pachomius — Saint, a.d. 292?–348? Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.
- parcourse — an outdoor exercise track or course, especially for joggers, equipped with a series of stations along the way where one is to stop and perform a specific exercise.
- parecious — paroicous.
- paroicous — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- patroclus — Classical Mythology. a friend of Achilles, who was slain by Hector at Troy.
- pinaceous — belonging to the plant family Pinaceae.
- pomaceous — of, relating to, or of the nature of pomes.
- proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
- rancorous — full of or showing rancor.
- rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- raucously — harsh; strident; grating: raucous voices; raucous laughter.
- rosaceous — belonging to the plant family Rosaceae. Compare rose family.
- roughcast — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
- rudaceous — (of conglomerate, breccia, and similar rocks) composed of coarse-grained material