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9-letter words containing a, p, u, r

  • sharp-cut — cut so as to have a sharp edge: a tool with a sharp-cut blade.
  • spar buoy — a buoy resembling a vertical log
  • sparkplug — to lead, inspire, or animate something or someone.
  • spartacus — died 71 b.c, Thracian slave, gladiator, and insurrectionist.
  • spear gun — a device for shooting a barbed missile under water, usually by means of gas under pressure, a strong rubber band, or a powerful spring.
  • spiritual — of, relating to, or consisting of spirit; incorporeal.
  • spirulina — any of the blue-green algae of the genus Spirulina, sometimes added to food for its nutrient value.
  • sporulate — to produce spores.
  • spray gun — a device consisting of a container from which paint or other liquid is sprayed through a nozzle by air pressure from a pump.
  • spun yarn — yarn produced by spinning fibers into a continuous strand.
  • spur gall — a hairless and indurated area or gall on the side of a horse, caused by the irritation of a spur.
  • spur gear — a gear having straight teeth cut on the rim parallel to the axis of rotation.
  • spur-gall — to scrape, rub or injure (a horse) with the spur when riding
  • square up — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • stroupach — a cup of tea
  • subprimal — (of meat) being a cut of meat larger than a steak, roast, or other single cut but smaller than a side of beef: shipped by the packer to local markets for final cutting to reduce processing costs and to retard spoilage.
  • sugar pea — snow pea.
  • sugar pie — an open pie with a brown sugar filling
  • sugarplum — a small sweetmeat made of sugar with various flavoring and coloring ingredients; a bonbon.
  • sumptuary — pertaining to, dealing with, or regulating expense or expenditure.
  • super pac — a type of PAC that has no limitations on the amount or source of donations, though it cannot contribute directly to a political campaign or party. See also PAC.
  • super vga — Super Video Graphics Array
  • superable — capable of being overcome; surmountable.
  • superably — capable of being overcome; surmountable.
  • superatom — a cluster of atoms behaving in certain ways like a single atom
  • superbaby — an infant whose mental development and language acquisition are stimulated and presumably accelerated by certain teaching methods.
  • superbank — a bank that owns other banks; an overarching banking organization
  • superbrat — an exceptionally unpleasant or bratty person, someone who is very much a brat
  • supercrat — a high-ranking bureaucrat, especially one of cabinet rank.
  • superfarm — a very large farm, sometimes incorporating or coordinating a number of smaller farms
  • superfast — very or extremely fast
  • superheat — the state of being superheated.
  • supermale — a person bearing an X and Y chromosome pair in the cell nuclei and normally having a penis, scrotum, and testicles, and developing hair on the face at adolescence; a boy or man.
  • supermart — a large self-service store selling food and household supplies
  • supernate — a supernatant liquid
  • supernova — the explosion of a star, possibly caused by gravitational collapse, during which the star's luminosity increases by as much as 20 magnitudes and most of the star's mass is blown away at very high velocity, sometimes leaving behind an extremely dense core.
  • superrace — a race, class, or people considered superior to others.
  • superreal — surpassing realism
  • superroad — an extremely large road
  • supersafe — exceptionally safe
  • supersale — a massive sale
  • supersalt — a salt with an excess of acid over base
  • supersaur — a huge sauropod dinosaur of the genus Supersaurus, of W North America, that reached a length of about 130 feet (40 meters).
  • superstar — a person, as a performer or athlete, who enjoys wide recognition, is esteemed for exceptional talent, and is eagerly sought after for his or her services.
  • supertalk — Silicon Beach Software. A superset of HyperTalk used in SuperCard.
  • supertask — a paradox resulting from the notion that a task requiring an infinite number of steps could be performed in a finite time by halving the duration of each step.
  • supertram — a tram with greater capacity and speed than conventional trams
  • superwaif — a very young and very thin supermodel
  • superwave — an exceptionally large wave
  • supinator — a muscle used in supination.
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