9-letter words containing a, u, s, o
- oversauce — to put too much sauce on
- oviparous — producing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled from the body, as birds, most reptiles and fishes, and the monotremes.
- pachomius — Saint, a.d. 292?–348? Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.
- palladous — of or containing bivalent palladium.
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- panderous — resembling a pander
- parcourse — an outdoor exercise track or course, especially for joggers, equipped with a series of stations along the way where one is to stop and perform a specific exercise.
- parecious — paroicous.
- paroicous — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- patroclus — Classical Mythology. a friend of Achilles, who was slain by Hector at Troy.
- peasouper — Chiefly British Informal. pea soup (def 2).
- phase out — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phytosaur — any armored, semiaquatic reptile of the extinct order Phytosauria, of the Mesozoic Era, resembling the crocodile but unrelated, having the nostrils high on the snout and with well-developed hind limbs suggestive of bipedal ancestors.
- pinaceous — belonging to the plant family Pinaceae.
- platinous — containing bivalent platinum.
- playhouse — a theater.
- pomaceous — of, relating to, or of the nature of pomes.
- postaudit — an audit of accounting records, conducted at some interval of time after a transaction or a series of transactions has already occurred.
- postfault — taking place after a fault
- postulant — a candidate, especially for admission into a religious order.
- postulata — things postulated
- postulate — to ask, demand, or claim.
- potassium — a silvery-white metallic element that oxidizes rapidly in the air and whose compounds are used as fertilizer and in special hard glasses. Symbol: K; atomic weight: 39.102; atomic number: 19; specific gravity: 0.86 at 20°C.
- poujadism — a conservative reactionary movement to protect the business interests of small traders
- poutassou — a gadoid fish, Micromesistius poutassou, also known as the blue whiting
- prolapsus — prolapse.
- prosateur — a person who writes prose, especially as a livelihood.
- proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- pterosaur — any flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having the outside digit of the forelimb greatly elongated and supporting a wing membrane.
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- quadroons — Plural form of quadroon.
- quadwords — Plural form of quadword.
- quaestors — Plural form of quaestor.
- quandongs — Plural form of quandong.
- quartzose — one of the commonest minerals, silicon dioxide, SiO 2 , having many varieties that differ in color, luster, etc., and occurring either in masses (as agate, bloodstone, chalcedony, jasper, etc.) or in crystals (as rock crystal, amethyst, citrine, etc.): the chief constituent of sand and sandstone, and an important constituent of many other rocks. It is piezoelectric and used to control the frequencies of radio transmitters.
- quasimodo — Salvatore [sahl-vah-taw-re] /ˌsɑl vɑˈtɔ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1901–68, Italian poet: Nobel prize 1959.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rancorous — full of or showing rancor.
- rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- rapturous — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- raucously — harsh; strident; grating: raucous voices; raucous laughter.
- re-arouse — to arouse (someone or something) again
- rivalrous — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
- road user — anyone who uses a road, such as a pedestrian, cyclist or motorist
- roadhouse — an inn, dance hall, tavern, nightclub, etc., located on a highway, usually beyond city limits.
- rosaceous — belonging to the plant family Rosaceae. Compare rose family.
- rotavirus — a double-stranded RNA virus of the genus Rotavirus, family Reoviridae, that is a major cause of infant diarrhea.