9-letter words containing n, o, u, r
- bourgogne — Burgundy2
- bowhunter — a person who hunts with a bow
- bring out — When a person or company brings out a new product, especially a new book or CD, they produce it and put it on sale.
- bronchium — a medium-sized bronchial tube
- brown out — a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
- buckthorn — any of several thorny small-flowered shrubs of the genus Rhamnus, esp the Eurasian species R. cathartica, whose berries were formerly used as a purgative: family Rhamnaceae
- buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone
- bupropion — an antidepressant drug used to help people stop smoking
- burdenous — burdensome
- burgeoned — to grow or develop quickly; flourish: The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.
- burn down — If a building burns down or if someone burns it down, it is completely destroyed by fire.
- burnt-out — Burnt-out vehicles or buildings have been so badly damaged by fire that they can no longer be used.
- burrowing — a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refuge.
- burrstone — buhrstone
- cancerous — Cancerous cells or growths are cells or growths that are the result of cancer.
- cankerous — having cankers
- carbonium — a transient, positively charged organic ion, as H3C+, R3+, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical
- carbonous — of, containing, or derived from carbon.
- carnosaur — any of various large carnivorous bipedal dinosaurs of the group Carnosauria, including the allosaurs
- carousing — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- cartonful — As much as a carton will hold.
- cauldrons — Plural form of cauldron.
- cautioner — A person who cautions.
- cautionry — the position or function of a surety, a person who protects and takes responsibility for another person
- cavernous — A cavernous room or building is very large inside, and so it reminds you of a cave.
- centurion — A centurion was an officer in the Roman army.
- chancrous — (medicine) Of the nature of a chancre; affected by chancre.
- chondrule — one of the small spherical masses of mainly silicate minerals present in chondrites
- chorusing — Present participle of chorus.
- churn out — To churn out something means to produce large quantities of it very quickly.
- cinderous — a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- cinereous — of a greyish colour
- clangours — Plural form of clangour.
- close-run — If you describe something such as a race or contest as a close-run thing, you mean that it was only won by a very small amount.
- coenamour — to enamour jointly
- cofounder — a joint founder
- coinsurer — A coinsurer is a person or company whose policy covers the same risk as that of another person or company, and shares the loss.
- coinsures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coinsure.
- cointreau — a colourless liqueur with orange flavouring
- colour in — If you colour in a drawing, you give it different colours using crayons or paints.
- colourant — A colourant is a substance that is used to give something a particular colour.
- colouring — The colouring of something is the colour or colours that it is.
- colourman — a person who deals in paints
- colubrine — of or resembling a snake
- communard — a member of a commune
- computron — (jargon) /kom'pyoo-tron"/ 1. A notional unit of computing power combining execution speed and storage capacity. E.g. "That machine can't run GNU Emacs, it doesn't have enough computrons!" 2. A mythical subatomic particle that carries computation or information, in much the same way that an electron carries electric charge (see also bogon).
- concluder — A person who, or thing which concludes (in any sense).
- concourse — A concourse is a wide hall in a public building, for example a hotel, airport, or station.
- concurred — to accord in opinion; agree: Do you concur with his statement?
- conductor — A conductor is a person who stands in front of an orchestra or choir and directs its performance.