9-letter words containing a, u, s, o
- southgate — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- southland — a southern area.
- southward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
- southwark — a borough of Greater London, England, S of the Thames.
- souvlakia — a dish similar to shish kebab made with lamb.
- soy sauce — a salty, fermented sauce prepared from soybeans, used in East Asian cuisine.
- space out — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- spar buoy — a buoy resembling a vertical log
- spazz out — an awkward or clumsy person.
- speak out — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- sphagnous — pertaining to, abounding in, or consisting of sphagnum.
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- squadoosh — nothing
- squadrone — a former Scottish political party, active in the last parliament of Scotland before the Act of Union, in the early 18th century
- squamosal — Anatomy. of or relating to the thin, scalelike portion of the temporal bone that is situated on the side of the skull above and behind the ear.
- 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.
- staghound — a hound trained to hunt stags and other large animals.
- stake out — a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc.
- stake-out — a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc.
- stamp out — to strike or beat with a forcible, downward thrust of the foot.
- stand out — something or someone, as a person, performance, etc., remarkably superior to others: Evans was a standout in the mixed doubles.
- stand-out — something or someone, as a person, performance, etc., remarkably superior to others: Evans was a standout in the mixed doubles.
- 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.
- stomatous — stomatal.
- 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
- subaction — an act of subduing
- subatomic — of or relating to a process that occurs within an atom.
- subcantor — a deputy to a cantor
- subcostal — below the rib
- subdeacon — a member of the clerical order next below that of deacon.
- subdorsal — situated close to the back in humans or upper surface in animals
- sublation — to deny or contradict; negate.
- submucosa — the layer of connective tissue located beneath the mucous membrane.
- subnormal — below the normal; less than or inferior to the normal: a subnormal amount of rain.
- suboctave — an octave below another octave
- subocular — below or under the eye
- subpoenas — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- subrogate — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- subsocial — without a definite social structure.
- succorant — the act of seeking out affectionate care and social support.
- succotash — a cooked dish of kernels of corn mixed with shell beans, especially lima beans, and, often, with green and sweet red peppers.
- 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.