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

  • gastrulas — Plural form of gastrula.
  • graduates — Plural form of graduate.
  • grassquit — any of several tiny finches, especially of the genus Tiaris, of tropical America and the West Indies.
  • graustark — a novel (1901) by George Barr McCutcheon about the romantic and melodramatic adventures of military and courtly figures in the fictional kingdom of Graustark.
  • grubstake — provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.
  • guardpost — Alternative spelling of guard post.
  • guevarist — a supporter of the revolutionary theories and tactics of Ernesto Guevara.
  • guitarist — a performer on the guitar.
  • gustatory — of or relating to taste or tasting.
  • gutturals — Plural form of guttural.
  • hamstrung — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
  • handsturn — an amount of work or the period of time spent doing a piece of work
  • haustoria — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
  • hiratsuka — a city in central Honshu, Japan, near Yokohama.
  • histadrut — a labor federation in Israel, founded in 1920.
  • insulator — Electricity. a material of such low conductivity that the flow of current through it is negligible. insulating material, often glass or porcelain, in a unit form designed so as to support a charged conductor and electrically isolate it.
  • jambuster — (Canada, Manitoba and northwestern Ontario) A doughnut filled with jam.
  • jumpstart — Also, jump. Automotive. the starting of an internal-combustion engine that has a discharged or weak battery by means of booster cables.
  • justiciar — a high judicial officer in medieval England.
  • kurdistan — a mountain and plateau region in SE Turkey, NW Iran, and N Iraq: inhabited largely by Kurds. 74,000 sq. mi. (191,660 sq. km).
  • labourist — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
  • lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
  • landsturm — a general draft of people in time of war.
  • laughters — the action or sound of laughing.
  • laureates — Plural form of laureate.
  • leaf rust — a disease, especially of cereals and other grasses, characterized by rust-colored pustules of spores on the affected leaf blades and sheaths and caused by any of several rust fungi.
  • ligatures — Plural form of ligature.
  • lincrusta — a wallpaper having a hard embossed surface
  • literatus — singular of literati.
  • lustrated — Simple past tense and past participle of lustrate.
  • lustrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lustrate.
  • lustrical — Pertaining to, or used for, purification.
  • macrotous — having large ears
  • marabouts — Plural form of marabout.
  • masterful — dominating; self-willed; imperious.
  • mastigure — Any of the spiny-tailed lizards of the genus Uromastyx.
  • mauritius — an island in the Indian Ocean, E of Madagascar. 720 sq. mi. (1865 sq. km).
  • megahurts — Plural form of megahurt.
  • menstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • mensurate — (obsolete) To measure absolutely the height, lattitude and longitude of a point on the earth.
  • meursault — a dry, white Burgundy wine produced in the district around Meursault in E France.
  • minotaurs — Plural form of minotaur.
  • mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
  • muralists — Plural form of muralist.
  • must-read — a piece of literature or writing considered important or classic; writing that should or must be read.
  • mustanger — a person who engages in mustanging.
  • naturists — Plural form of naturist.
  • naucratis — an ancient Greek city in N Egypt, on the Nile delta.
  • nectarous — of the nature of or resembling nectar.
  • neuromast — a group of innervated sensory cells occurring along the lateral line of fishes and aquatic amphibians.
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