9-letter words containing n, o, r, i, s
- strolling — to walk leisurely as inclination directs; ramble; saunter; take a walk: to stroll along the beach.
- strongish — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- strontian — strontianite.
- strontium — a bivalent, metallic element whose compounds resemble those of calcium, found in nature only in the combined state, as in strontianite: used in fireworks, flares, and tracer bullets. Symbol: Sr; atomic weight: 87.62; atomic number: 38; specific gravity: 2.6.
- strouding — a woolly material used to make strouds or blankets
- submicron — (of particles) being less than a micron in overall dimensions.
- subregion — a division or subdivision of a region, especially a division of a zoogeographical region.
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- sun visor — a flap, usually of padded cardboard, acetate, or the like, that is attached inside a vehicle above the windshield and can be swung down to protect the eyes from the sun's glare.
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.
- surrejoin — to reply to a legal rejoinder
- swingover — a shift or transfer in attitude, opinion, or the like.
- syndromic — Pathology, Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like.
- synedrion — an assembly of judges or representatives
- tensioner — an instrument for adding tension
- tonsillar — a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.
- tonsorial — of or relating to a barber or barbering: the tonsorial shop.
- torminous — suffering from tormina
- torsional — the act of twisting.
- transonic — close to the speed of propagation of sound; moving at 700–780 miles per hour (1127–1255 km/h) at sea level.
- trasimeno — a lake in central Italy, in Umbria near Perugia: Romans defeated by Hannibal 217 b.c. About 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km).
- triclosan — a drug used to treat skin infections
- trigonous — having three angles or corners, as a stem or seed; triangular.
- trigynous — (of a plant) having three pistils
- trillions — an exceptionally large but unspecified number
- trisagion — an ancient hymn
- uncurious — incurious
- undersoil — subsoil.
- uniparous — Zoology. producing only one egg or offspring at a time.
- uniramous — Biology. having one branch.
- unmortise — to unfasten or separate (something mortised).
- unrosined — not coated with rosin
- unserious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- unstoried — without a history; not written as history or told as folklore: an unstoried island.
- uredinous — of or relating to rust
- urokinase — an enzyme, present in the blood and urine of mammals, that activates plasminogen and is used medicinally to dissolve blood clots.
- vaporings — instances of boasting
- varsovian — a native or inhabitant of Warsaw.
- verminous — of the nature of or resembling vermin.
- version 7 — (operating system) (V7) The unsupported release of Unix ancestral to all current commercial versions. Brian Kernighan announced the release of V7 in summer 1979, at the Unix User's Group meeting in Toronto. Before the release of the POSIX/SVID standards, V7's features were often treated as a Unix portability baseline. Some old-timers impatient with commercialisation and kernel bloat still maintain that V7 was the Last True Unix. See BSD, USG Unix, System V.
- visionary — given to or characterized by fanciful, not presently workable, or unpractical ideas, views, or schemes: a visionary enthusiast.
- weisshorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Alps. 14,804 feet (4512 meters).
- werelions — Plural form of werelion.
- wind rose — a map symbol showing, for a given locality or area, the frequency and strength of the wind from various directions.
- windstorm — a storm with heavy wind but little or no precipitation.
- wingovers — Plural form of wingover.
- winsorize — (statistics) To transform statistics of a batch or sample by transforming extreme values.
- wiresonde — an instrument carried aloft by a captive balloon and sending temperature and humidity data over a wire cable.
- womaniser — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of womanizer.
- wordiness — characterized by or given to the use of many, or too many, words; verbose: She grew impatient at his wordy reply.