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9-letter words containing a, u, r

  • law court — court of law.
  • 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.
  • leaguered — to besiege.
  • lean-burn — (esp of an internal-combustion engine) designed to use a lean mixture of fuel and air in order to reduce petrol consumption and exhaust emissions
  • lemuralia — the annual festival in ancient Rome in which the lemures were exorcised from houses.
  • lifeguard — an expert swimmer employed, as at a beach or pool, to protect bathers from drowning or other accidents and dangers.
  • ligatures — Plural form of ligature.
  • lincrusta — a wallpaper having a hard embossed surface
  • literatus — singular of literati.
  • lobularly — in a lobular manner
  • lubricant — a substance, as oil or grease, for lessening friction, especially in the working parts of a mechanism.
  • lubricate — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
  • lucubrate — to work, write, or study laboriously, especially at night.
  • lumberman — a person who deals in lumber.
  • lumbrical — any of four wormlike muscles in the palm of the hand and in the sole of the foot.
  • luminaire — A complete electric light unit (used especially in technical contexts).
  • luminaria — (especially in Mexico and the southwestern U.S.) a Christmas lantern consisting of a lighted candle set in sand inside a paper bag.
  • lunar day — a division of time that is equal to the elapsed time between two consecutive returns of the same terrestrial meridian to the moon.
  • lunarnaut — an astronaut who travels or has travelled to the moon
  • lunisolar — pertaining to or based upon the relations or joint action of the moon and the sun.
  • 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.
  • luxuriant — abundant or lush in growth, as vegetation.
  • luxuriate — to enjoy oneself without stint; revel: to luxuriate in newly acquired wealth.
  • macarthur — Douglas, 1880–1964, U.S. general: supreme commander of allied forces in SW Pacific during World War II and of UN forces in Korea 1950–51.
  • maclaurin — Colin, 1698–1746, Scottish mathematician.
  • macquarie — a river in SE Australia, in New South Wales, flowing NW to the Darling River. 750 miles (1210 km) long.
  • macrotous — having large ears
  • macrurous — long-tailed, as a lobster (opposed to brachyurous).
  • magdeburg — a state in central Germany. 9515 sq. mi. (24,644 sq. km). Capital: Magdeburg.
  • maiasaura — a species of large, herbivorous, duck-billed dinosaur
  • maiduguri — a city in NE Nigeria.
  • make sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
  • 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.
  • malodours — Plural form of malodour.
  • man crush — an intense but non-sexual admiration felt by one man for another
  • manchuria — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
  • maneouvre — Misspelling of manoeuvre.
  • maneuvers — Plural form of maneuver.
  • maneuvres — Plural form of maneuvre.
  • mangaluru — a city and port in SW Karnataka state, in SW India.
  • manhunter — an intensive search for a criminal, suspect, escaped convict, etc., as by law enforcement agencies.
  • manicured — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
  • manicures — Plural form of manicure.
  • manipular — of or relating to the Roman maniple.
  • manoeuver — (nonstandard) alternative spelling of maneuver.
  • manoeuvre — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
  • manubrial — Anatomy, Zoology. a segment, bone, cell, etc., resembling a handle.
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