9-letter words containing o, r, a, i, u
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- purgation — the act of purging.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- 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.
- recaution — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- rhizocaul — a rootlike stem or stalk
- rivalrous — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
- rotavirus — a double-stranded RNA virus of the genus Rotavirus, family Reoviridae, that is a major cause of infant diarrhea.
- roubiliac — Louis-François (lwifrɑ̃swa). ?1695–1762, French sculptor: lived chiefly in England: his sculptures include the statue of Handel in Vauxhall Gardens (1737)
- roumanian — Romania.
- ructation — an eructation or belch
- ruination — the act or state of ruining or the state of being ruined.
- ruminator — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- sartorius — a long, flat, narrow muscle extending obliquely from the front of the hip to the inner side of the tibia, assisting in bending the hip or knee joint and in rotating the thigh outward: the longest muscle in humans.
- savouries — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
- simarouba — any tropical American tree belonging to the genus Simaruba, of the quassia family, having pinnate leaves, a fleshy fruit, and a root whose bark contains an appetite stimulant.
- simulator — a person or thing that simulates.
- sioux war — any of a series of skirmishes or wars between the Sioux Indians and settlers or the U.S. Army from 1854 to 1890.
- stirabout — porridge.
- suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.
- tambourin — a long narrow drum of Provence.
- tauriform — shaped like a bull or the head or horns of a bull.
- togavirus — a virus belonging to the Togaviridae family and which usually affects birds and mammals rather than humans
- trialogue — a discussion or conversation in which three persons or groups participate.
- trigamous — of or relating to trigamy or a trigamist.
- tubicolar — living in a self-constructed tube
- uncordial — unfriendly
- uniocular — monocular.
- uniparous — Zoology. producing only one egg or offspring at a time.
- uniramous — Biology. having one branch.
- unorganic — noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
- urination — to pass or discharge urine.
- urokinase — an enzyme, present in the blood and urine of mammals, that activates plasminogen and is used medicinally to dissolve blood clots.
- urolagnia — a sexual activity involving arousal from urine and urination
- uropygial — of or relating to the uropygium.
- uvarovite — Mineralogy. a variety of garnet colored emerald-green by the presence of chromium.
- vagarious — characterized by vagaries; erratic; capricious: a vagarious foreign policy.
- variolous — of or relating to smallpox.
- variously — of different kinds, as two or more things; differing one from another: Various experiments have not proved his theory.
- veracious — habitually speaking the truth; truthful; honest: a veracious witness.
- vicarious — performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
- voracious — craving or consuming large quantities of food: a voracious appetite.