9-letter words containing l, a, r, o, u
- old guard — the imperial guard created in 1804 by Napoleon: it made the last French charge at Waterloo.
- opercular — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- oraculous — resembling an oracle
- orbicular — like an orb; circular; ringlike; spherical; rounded.
- oulujarvi — a lake in central Finland, draining through the Oulu River to the Gulf of Bothnia.
- outlander — a foreigner; alien.
- outlinear — relating to an outline
- outplacer — a person who outplaces ex-employees
- outtravel — (transitive) To exceed in speed or distance travelled.
- outwardly — as regards appearance or outward manifestation: outwardly charming; outwardly considerate.
- overvalue — to value too highly; put too high a value on: They should be careful not to overvalue the property.
- ovulatory — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- paragould — a city in NE Arkansas.
- paralogue — either of a pair of genes derived from the same ancestral gene
- patroclus — Classical Mythology. a friend of Achilles, who was slain by Hector at Troy.
- playgroup — a group of small children, especially preschoolers, organized for play or play activities and supervised by adult volunteers.
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- plutocrat — a member of a plutocracy.
- popularly — by the people as a whole; generally; widely: a fictitious story popularly accepted as true.
- portulaca — any of various fleshy-leaved plants of the genus Portulaca, especially P. grandiflora, widely cultivated for its showy, variously colored flowers.
- preocular — a scale in front of the eye of a reptile or fish
- prolabour — favouring an organized labour movement
- prolapsus — prolapse.
- propagule — Botany, Mycology. any structure capable of being propagated or acting as an agent of reproduction.
- pulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- pulpboard — a board made from pulpwood.
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- raucously — harsh; strident; grating: raucous voices; raucous laughter.
- rauwolfia — any tropical tree or shrub of the genus Rauwolfia, as R. serpentina, of India.
- realaudio — (tool, communications) A program from Real Media for playing audio over the Internet, and the lossy audio compression format it uses. The system is implemented as a client/server architecture. The RealAudio server incorporates an encoder which compresses sound into RealAudio files. The client side is a web browser plug-in or add-on (a recent version of Internet Explorer apparently has built-in support for RealAudio) which allows the stream of data sent from the server to be uncompressed and output using the normal sound facilities of the computer, such as a sound card. A 14.4 KBps or better modem is required, and a 28.8 KBps connection is recommended for music-quality sound.
- recountal — an act of recounting.
- regulator — a person or thing that regulates.
- remoulade — a cold sauce made with mayonnaise and various condiments and herbs, as chopped pickles, capers, mustard, parsley, chervil, and tarragon.
- rhizocaul — a rootlike stem or stalk
- rivalrous — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
- roubiliac — Louis-François (lwifrɑ̃swa). ?1695–1762, French sculptor: lived chiefly in England: his sculptures include the statue of Handel in Vauxhall Gardens (1737)
- rounceval — a variety of large pea
- roundball — basketball
- roundelay — a song in which a phrase, line, or the like, is continually repeated.
- rub along — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- run along — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- ruvo kale — broccoli rabe.
- simulator — a person or thing that simulates.
- 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.
- sour salt — crystals of citric acid used as a flavoring in foods, carbonated beverages, and pharmaceuticals.
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- 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
- 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.