9-letter words containing e, a, s, o, u
- novaesium — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia west of Düsseldorf: founded as a Roman fortress in the 1st century ad. Pop: 152 050 (2003 est)
- oasthouse — Alternative spelling of oast house.
- obfuscate — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obsequial — Relating to an obsequy or funeral rite.
- odalisque — a female slave or concubine in a harem, especially in that of the sultan of Turkey.
- oleaceous — belonging to the Oleaceae, the olive family of plants.
- opelousas — a city in S Louisiana.
- osculated — Simple past tense and past participle of osculate.
- osculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of osculate.
- ossuaries — Plural form of ossuary.
- out-years — the fiscal year after a year covered by a budget; any year beyond the budget year for which projections of spending are made.
- outbreaks — Plural form of outbreak.
- outcasted — Simple past tense and past participle of outcaste.
- outcastes — Plural form of outcaste.
- outgassed — Simple past tense and past participle of outgas.
- outlasted — to endure or last longer than: The pyramids outlasted the civilization that built them.
- outmaster — to surpass
- outraised — Simple past tense and past participle of outraise.
- outreason — (transitive) To surpass in reasoning; to reason better than.
- outsailed — Simple past tense and past participle of outsail.
- outscream — to scream louder than
- outsearch — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- outskates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outskate.
- outspeaks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outspeak.
- outspread — spread out; stretched out: outspread arms.
- outstared — Simple past tense and past participle of outstare.
- outstayed — Simple past tense and past participle of outstay.
- outstream — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- outswears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outswear.
- outvalues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outvalue.
- outwashes — Plural form of outwash.
- oversauce — to put too much sauce on
- 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.
- 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.
- pinaceous — belonging to the plant family Pinaceae.
- playhouse — a theater.
- pomaceous — of, relating to, or of the nature of pomes.
- postulate — to ask, demand, or claim.
- prosateur — a person who writes prose, especially as a livelihood.
- proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
- 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.
- quaestors — Plural form of quaestor.
- 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.
- re-arouse — to arouse (someone or something) again
- 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.