9-letter words containing o, i, r, e, a
- savouries — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
- scenarios — an outline of the plot of a dramatic work, giving particulars as to the scenes, characters, situations, etc.
- sea robin — any of various gurnards, especially certain American species of the genus Prionotus, having large pectoral fins used to move across the ocean bottom.
- sectorial — of or relating to a sector.
- senhorita — a Portuguese term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- sensorial — of or relating to the senses or sensation.
- serbonian — of, relating to, or designating the large marshy tract of land in the northern part of ancient Egypt in which entire armies are said to have been swallowed up.
- seriation — the arrangement of a collection of artifacts into a chronological sequence.
- serotinal — pertaining to or occurring in late summer.
- serranoid — resembling or related to the sea bass family Serranidae.
- serration — serrated condition or form.
- sex ratio — the proportional distribution of the sexes in a population aggregate, expressed as the number of males per 100 females.
- side road — small street leading off larger road
- sideboard — a piece of furniture, as in a dining room, often with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding articles of table service.
- singapore — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- solitaire — Also called patience. any of various games played by one person with one or more regular 52-card packs, part or all of which are usually dealt out according to a given pattern, the object being to arrange the cards in a predetermined manner.
- sorediate — having soredia
- stationer — a person who sells the materials used in writing, as paper, pens, pencils, and ink.
- steroidal — any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds, as the sterols, bile acids, and sex hormones, most of which have specific physiological action.
- tailoress — a female tailor
- tanorexic — obsessed with maintaining a permanent deep tan, esp through use of tanning machines
- taylorite — a modified form of Calvinism that maintains that every person has a free will, and that makes a distinction between depravity, as the tendency to commit sins, and sin, as a voluntary choice of evil actions.
- tear into — to pull apart or in pieces by force, especially so as to leave ragged or irregular edges. Synonyms: rend, rip, rive. Antonyms: mend, repair, sew.
- tectorial — a rooflike structure.
- tentorial — Anatomy. an extension of one of the membranes covering the cerebrum which, with the transverse fissure, separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum.
- teratosis — teratism (def 2).
- textorial — relating to weaving or weavers
- thorazine — chlorpromazine
- timor sea — an arm of the Indian Ocean, between Timor and NW Australia.
- tirewoman — a lady's maid.
- torbanite — Petrology. a dark-brown oil shale containing a large amount of carbonaceous matter.
- totalizer — a person or thing that totals.
- trapezoid — Geometry. a quadrilateral plane figure having two parallel and two nonparallel sides. British. trapezium (def 1b).
- trasimeno — a lake in central Italy, in Umbria near Perugia: Romans defeated by Hannibal 217 b.c. About 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km).
- trebbiano — a type of grape and vine cultivated in Italy for making wine (by the same name)
- trematoid — relating to a trematode
- trialogue — a discussion or conversation in which three persons or groups participate.
- trilobate — having three lobes.
- tritanope — a person who cannot distinguish the colour blue
- tsavorite — a green variety of grossularite, found in Kenya in 1975 and used as a gem.
- urokinase — an enzyme, present in the blood and urine of mammals, that activates plasminogen and is used medicinally to dissolve blood clots.
- uvarovite — Mineralogy. a variety of garnet colored emerald-green by the presence of chromium.
- vaporizer — a person or thing that vaporizes.
- variolate — resembling smallpox, as a lesion.
- variolite — a rock embedded with varioles; a variolitic rock.
- vectorial — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
- veracious — habitually speaking the truth; truthful; honest: a veracious witness.
- vernation — the arrangement of the foliage leaves within the bud.
- viareggio — a town and resort in W Italy, in Tuscany on the Ligurian Sea. Pop: 61 103 (2001)
- video art — an art form involving the creative exploitation of video technology to produce videotapes for viewing on a television screen.