9-letter words containing o, r, e, n, s
- orleanais — a former province in N France. Capital: Orléans.
- orleanist — a supporter of the Orléans branch of the former French royal family and of its claim to the throne of France through descent from the younger brother of Louis XIV.
- ornaments — Plural form of ornament.
- orneriest — ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper: No one can get along with my ornery cousin.
- osborne 1 — (computer) A portable computer that weighed 11 kg and cost $1795, produced by Osborne Computer Corporation in 1981. The Osborne 1 came with a five-inch screen, modem port, two 5 1/4 floppy drives and a battery pack. It came with the CP/M operating system, SuperCalc spreadsheet application, WordStar, word processing application, Microsoft MBASIC programming language and Digital Research CBASIC programming language.
- ostensory — monstrance.
- ostracean — a member of the family formerly called Ostracea
- ostringer — astringer.
- otherness — the state or fact of being different or distinct.
- outerness — The quality of being outer.
- outliners — Plural form of outliner.
- outreason — (transitive) To surpass in reasoning; to reason better than.
- ovenbirds — Plural form of ovenbird.
- overlands — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- overshine — to outshine: One star seemed to overshine all others.
- overspend — to spend more than one can afford: Receiving a small inheritance, she began to overspend alarmingly.
- overstain — to stain too much
- overstand — overreach (def 13).
- overstink — to stink more than (something else)
- overswing — to swing too hard, hoping to apply more power.
- overtones — additional meanings or nuances
- owensboro — a city in NW Kentucky, on the Ohio River.
- ownerless — having no owner
- ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
- oystering — any of several edible, marine, bivalve mollusks of the family Ostreidae, having an irregularly shaped shell, occurring on the bottom or adhering to rocks or other objects in shallow water.
- oysterman — a person who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- panderous — resembling a pander
- parsonage — the residence of a member of the clergy, as provided by the parish or church.
- parthenos — an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”.
- patroness — a woman who protects, supports, or sponsors someone or something.
- patronise — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- patterson — Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") 1884–1948, U.S. newspaper editor and publisher.
- penseroso — a pensive, brooding, or thoughtful person
- pensioner — a person who receives or lives on a pension.
- penurious — extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
- perforans — (of nerves, muscles, or blood vessels) perforating or penetrating other anatomical structures
- perfusion — the act of perfusing.
- peronista — Peronist.
- perotinus — ("Magnus Magister") fl. late 12th to early 13th century, French composer.
- persimmon — any of several trees of the genus Diospyros, especially D. virginiana, of North America, bearing astringent, plumlike fruit that is sweet and edible when ripe, and D. kaki, of Japan and China, bearing soft, red or orange fruit.
- personage — a person of distinction or importance.
- personals — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- personate — to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
- personify — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- personnel — a body of persons employed in an organization or place of work.
- pertusion — the process or act of making a hole with a stabbing or penetrating implement
- pervasion — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- petronius — Gaius (ˈɡaɪəs), known as Petronius Arbiter. died 66 ad, Roman satirist, supposed author of the Satyricon, a picaresque account of the licentiousness of contemporary society
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- phronesis — wisdom in determining ends and the means of attaining them.