0%

9-letter words containing a, s, e, t, u, r

  • sauntered — to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll: sauntering through the woods.
  • sauternes — a semisweet white wine of California, commonly sold as a jug wine.
  • scrapegut — a fiddle player
  • scrutable — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
  • sea route — a route followed by ships
  • sea trout — any of various species of trout inhabiting salt water, as the salmon trout, Salmo trutta.
  • secateurs — scissors or shears, especially pruning shears.
  • securitan — a person believing they are secure
  • separatum — a reprint of an article separately from the magazine, journal, or book in which it was originally published; an offprint
  • septarium — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
  • sequestra — a fragment of bone that has become necrotic as a result of disease or injury and has separated from the normal bone structure.
  • serrulate — finely or minutely serrate, as a leaf.
  • sextarius — an ancient Roman measurement for volume
  • shamateur — a sportsperson who is officially an amateur but accepts payment
  • share out — distribute fairly
  • signature — a person's name, or a mark representing it, as signed personally or by deputy, as in subscribing a letter or other document.
  • slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
  • solutrean — Archaeology. of or designating an Upper Paleolithic European culture c18,000–16,000 b.c., characterized by the making of stone projectile points and low-relief stone sculptures.
  • sporulate — to produce spores.
  • stare out — If you stare someone out, you look steadily into their eyes for such a long time that they feel that they have to turn their eyes away from you.
  • starquake — a rapid change in the mass distribution or shape of a pulsar, resulting in a fluctuation of the pulsar's pulse rate or radiation intensity.
  • state-run — controlled by the government
  • stauncher — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
  • stegosaur — a plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Stegosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a heavy, bony armor and a row of bony plates along its back, and growing to a length of 20 to 40 feet (6–12 meters).
  • stellular — having the form of a small star or small stars.
  • sterculia — any of various tropical trees of the genus Sterculia, of which some species are grown as ornamentals and some are the source of commercially valuable wood.
  • stourhead — a Palladian mansion near Mere in Wiltshire: built (1722) for Henry Hoare; famous for its landscaped gardens laid out (1741) by Flitcroft
  • striature — the way something is striated
  • stud mare — a female horse kept for breeding
  • subaltern — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
  • submarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
  • subrogate — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
  • substrate — a substratum.
  • sulfurate — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
  • superatom — a cluster of atoms behaving in certain ways like a single atom
  • superbrat — an exceptionally unpleasant or bratty person, someone who is very much a brat
  • supercrat — a high-ranking bureaucrat, especially one of cabinet rank.
  • superfast — very or extremely fast
  • superheat — the state of being superheated.
  • supermart — a large self-service store selling food and household supplies
  • supernate — a supernatant liquid
  • supersalt — a salt with an excess of acid over base
  • 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
  • suppurate — to produce or discharge pus, as a wound; maturate.
  • surmaster — the deputy headmaster of St Paul's School in London
  • surrogate — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
  • sustainer — a person or thing that sustains.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?