9-letter words containing a, e, r, o, s, c
- 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.
- overcasts — Plural form of overcast.
- overclass — a social stratum consisting of educated and wealthy people considered to control the economic power of a country.
- overcoats — Plural form of overcoat.
- oversauce — to put too much sauce on
- overscale — larger or more extensive than normal or usual; outsize; oversize.
- packhorse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- 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.
- pectorals — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
- podcaster — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
- post race — a race in which each owner is allowed to list a number of possible entries and, at a stipulated time before the race, specify which horse will actually compete.
- praecoces — a division of birds whose young are able to run when first hatched
- premosaic — of the period before Moses
- procellas — pucellas.
- proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
- racegoers — Plural form of racegoer.
- racehorse — a horse bred or kept for racing, especially in flat races or steeplechases.
- raw score — the original score, as of a test, before it is statistically adjusted.
- resonance — the state or quality of being resonant.
- rheobasic — of or relating to rheobase
- romanesco — a variety of green cauliflower
- roofscape — a view of the rooftops of a town, city, etc
- rosaceous — belonging to the plant family Rosaceae. Compare rose family.
- rosecrans — William Starke [stahrk] /stɑrk/ (Show IPA), 1819–98, U.S. general.
- rudaceous — (of conglomerate, breccia, and similar rocks) composed of coarse-grained material
- rutaceous — of or like rue.
- sarcodine — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- sarcomere — any of the segments of myofibril in striated muscle fibers.
- sarcosine — a crystalline compound, C 3 H 7 NO 2 , with a sweet taste, soluble in water, slightly soluble in alcohol: used in the manufacture of toothpaste, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals.
- sarcosome — a mitochondrion occurring in a muscle fiber.
- scalework — an ornamentation technique used to depict scales on fish or other creatures
- scalloper — a person or thing that scallops.
- scare off — frighten away
- scarecrow — an object, usually a figure of a person in old clothes, set up to frighten crows or other birds away from crops.
- scarpetto — a type of shoe traditionally worn by Alpine climbers
- scenarios — an outline of the plot of a dramatic work, giving particulars as to the scenes, characters, situations, etc.
- sclerosal — Pathology. a hardening or induration of a tissue or part, or an increase of connective tissue or the like at the expense of more active tissue.
- sclerotal — a bony area or plate found in the sclerotic (the eyeball covering) of some animals
- scorecard — a card for keeping score of a sports contest and, especially in team sports, for identifying the players by name, number, and position.
- secondary — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- sectorial — of or relating to a sector.
- sharecrop — to cultivate (farmland) as a sharecropper
- shoe rack — shelving unit for storing footwear
- shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
- smackeroo — a hard slap or swat: He gave the ball a smackeroo.
- spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.
- spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- stercoral — stercoraceous