9-letter words containing a, s, u, r, i
- grassquit — any of several tiny finches, especially of the genus Tiaris, of tropical America and the West Indies.
- guardians — Plural form of guardian.
- guardship — a warship responsible for the safety of other ships in its company
- guerillas — Plural form of guerilla.
- guevarist — a supporter of the revolutionary theories and tactics of Ernesto Guevara.
- guitarist — a performer on the guitar.
- hairbrush — a brush for smoothing and styling the hair.
- haruspicy — divination by a haruspex.
- haustoria — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
- heraclius — a.d. 575?–641, Byzantine emperor 610–641.
- hilarious — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- hiratsuka — a city in central Honshu, Japan, near Yokohama.
- histadrut — a labor federation in Israel, founded in 1920.
- ignoramus — an extremely ignorant person.
- infusoria — Irregular plural form of infusorium.
- insularly — of or relating to an island or islands: insular possessions.
- 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.
- insurable — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- insurance — the act, system, or business of providing financial protection for property, life, health, etc, against specified contingencies, such as death, loss, or damage, and involving payment of regular premiums in return for a policy guaranteeing such protection
- isandrous — having the stamens similar to each other and equal in number to the petals.
- issue par — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
- januarius — Saint, a.d. 272?–305? Italian ecclesiastic and martyr: patron saint of Naples.
- justiciar — a high judicial officer in medieval England.
- kraurosis — atrophy and shrinkage of the skin, especially of the vulva.
- kurashiki — a city on SW Honshu, in Japan.
- 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).
- laborious — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- labourist — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
- laundries — Plural form of laundry.
- ligatures — Plural form of ligature.
- lincrusta — a wallpaper having a hard embossed surface
- literatus — singular of literati.
- lunisolar — pertaining to or based upon the relations or joint action of the moon and the sun.
- lustrical — Pertaining to, or used for, purification.
- maiasaura — a species of large, herbivorous, duck-billed dinosaur
- malarious — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- maquisard — maquis (def 2).
- margulies — Donald. born 1955, US playwright; plays include The Loman Family Picnic (1989) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends (1999)
- marinus i — died a.d. 884, pope 882–884.
- marquises — Plural form of marquis.
- marsupial — any viviparous, nonplacental mammal of the order Marsupialia, comprising the opossums, kangaroos, wombats, and bandicoots, the females of most species having a marsupium containing the mammary glands and serving as a receptacle for the young.
- marsupian — (obsolete) marsupial.
- marsupium — the pouch or fold of skin on the abdomen of a female marsupial.
- 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).
- measuring — Ascertain the size, amount, or degree of (something) by using an instrument or device marked in standard units or by comparing it with an object of known size.
- minotaurs — Plural form of minotaur.
- mislabour — to labour wrongly