9-letter words containing a, n, u, r
- numerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of numerate.
- numerator — Arithmetic. the term of a fraction, usually above the line, that indicates the number of equal parts that are to be added together; the dividend placed over a divisor: The numerator of the fraction 2/3 is 2. Compare denominator (def 1).
- numerical — of or relating to numbers; of the nature of a number.
- nummulary — relating to coinage or money
- nuristani — Kafir (def 1).
- nursemaid — Also called nurserymaid. a woman or girl employed to care for a child or several children, especially in a household.
- nurturant — warm and affectionate physical and emotional support and care.
- nut grass — either of two sedges, Cyperus rotundus or C. esculentus, that have small, nutlike tubers and are often troublesome weeds.
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obumbrant — overhanging; projecting over another part.
- oenogarum — Garum diluted with wine.
- orangutan — a large, long-armed anthropoid ape, Pongo pygmaeus, of arboreal habits, inhabiting Borneo and Sumatra: an endangered species.
- ortanique — A citrus fruit that is a cross between an orange and a tangerine, developed in Jamaica in the 1920s.
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- ouanderoo — Archaic form of wanderoo.
- outbrazen — to be more brazen or impudent than
- outlander — a foreigner; alien.
- outlinear — relating to an outline
- outraging — Present participle of outrage.
- outranged — Simple past tense and past participle of outrange.
- outranked — Simple past tense and past participle of outrank.
- outreason — (transitive) To surpass in reasoning; to reason better than.
- outstrain — to strain or stretch too much
- overhuman — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- pakanbaru — a city on central Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- paludrine — proguanil hydrochloride, a synthetic antimalarial drug first produced in 1944
- panderous — resembling a pander
- pandurate — shaped like a fiddle, as a leaf.
- pankhurst — Christabel Harriette, 1880–1958, English suffragist leader (daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst).
- paramount — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
- paranagua — a seaport in S Brazil.
- paranaque — a city on Luzon, in the N Philippines, on the S of Manila Bay.
- paricutin — a volcano in W central Mexico: formed by an eruption 1943–52. 8200 feet (2500 meters).
- parnassus — Mount. Modern name Liakoura. a mountain in central Greece, N of the Gulf of Corinth and near Delphi. About 8000 feet (2440 meters).
- pasturing — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pecuniary — of or relating to money: pecuniary difficulties.
- penumbral — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- per annum — by the year; yearly.
- petaurine — relating to a petaurist
- preattune — to attune in advance or beforehand
- prelaunch — preparatory to launch, as of a spacecraft.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- prytaneum — a public building in ancient Greece, containing the symbolic hearth of the community and commonly resembling a private dwelling in plan, used as a community meeting place and as a lodging for guests of the community.
- pull rank — a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
- pulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- pure land — a paradise believed by the followers of a Mahayana sect (Pure Land sect) to be ruled over by a Buddha (Amida) whose hope it is to bring all beings into it.
- purgation — the act of purging.
- pursuance — the following or carrying out of some plan, course, injunction, or the like.
- quadrants — Plural form of quadrant.
- quadroons — Plural form of quadroon.