9-letter words containing a, u, r, o, s
- simarouba — any tropical American tree belonging to the genus Simaruba, of the quassia family, having pinnate leaves, a fleshy fruit, and a root whose bark contains an appetite stimulant.
- simulator — a person or thing that simulates.
- sioux war — any of a series of skirmishes or wars between the Sioux Indians and settlers or the U.S. Army from 1854 to 1890.
- 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.
- soundcard — A soundcard is a piece of equipment which can be put into a computer so that the computer can produce music or other sounds.
- sour mash — a blended grain mash used in the distilling of some whiskeys, consisting of new mash and a portion of mash from a preceding run and yielding a high rate of lactic acid.
- sour salt — crystals of citric acid used as a flavoring in foods, carbonated beverages, and pharmaceuticals.
- southward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
- southwark — a borough of Greater London, England, S of the Thames.
- spar buoy — a buoy resembling a vertical log
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- squadrone — a former Scottish political party, active in the last parliament of Scotland before the Act of Union, in the early 18th century
- square go — a fair fight between two individuals
- squarrose — denoting any rough or ragged surface.
- squawroot — a fleshy, leafless plant, Conopholis americana, of the broomrape family, native to eastern North America, having a stout, yellowish, conelike stalk of lipped flowers, and growing in clusters, especially under oaks.
- 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.
- start out — begin career
- statutory — of, relating to, or of the nature of a statute.
- 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).
- stirabout — porridge.
- stourhead — a Palladian mansion near Mere in Wiltshire: built (1722) for Henry Hoare; famous for its landscaped gardens laid out (1741) by Flitcroft
- stroupach — a cup of tea
- subcantor — a deputy to a cantor
- subdorsal — situated close to the back in humans or upper surface in animals
- subnormal — below the normal; less than or inferior to the normal: a subnormal amount of rain.
- subocular — below or under the eye
- subrogate — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- succorant — the act of seeking out affectionate care and social support.
- sucralose — a white, crystalline powder, C 12 H 19 Cl 3 O 8 , produced synthetically from sucrose, about 600 times as sweet as sucrose but having no calories.
- suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- sugarcoat — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
- sugarloaf — a large, usually conical loaf or mass of hard refined sugar: the common form of household sugar until the mid-19th century.
- superatom — a cluster of atoms behaving in certain ways like a single atom
- 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.
- superroad — an extremely large road
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.
- sur-royal — crown antler.
- surf boat — a strong, buoyant rowboat with high ends, adapted for beaching and passing through surf.
- surfboard — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- surrogacy — the state of being a surrogate or surrogate mother.
- surrogate — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
- swarthout — Gladys, 1904–69, U.S. soprano.
- swear out — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
- tartarous — consisting of or containing tartar.
- tau cross — a T -shaped cross.
- teleosaur — a type of crocodile from the Jurassic period
- togavirus — a virus belonging to the Togaviridae family and which usually affects birds and mammals rather than humans
- trigamous — of or relating to trigamy or a trigamist.
- trousseau — an outfit of clothing, household linen, etc., for a bride.