9-letter words containing o, u, r, s
- authoress — An authoress is a female author. Many female writers object to this word, and prefer to be called authors.
- authorise — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- authorish — like or similar to an author
- authorism — the state or condition of being author
- autocrats — Plural form of autocrat.
- autocross — a form of motor sport in which cars race over a half-mile circuit of rough grass
- autogiros — Plural form of autogiro.
- autospore — a nonmotile algal spore that develops adult characteristics before being released
- autostart — (transitive, intransitive, computing) To start automatically.
- auxospore — a diatom cell before its silicaceous cell wall is formed
- barbarous — If you describe something as barbarous, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is rough and uncivilized.
- barfulous — /bar'fyoo-l*s/ (Or "barfucious", /bar-fyoo-sh*s/) Said of something that would make anyone barf, if only for aesthetic reasons.
- barklouse — any of numerous insects of the order Psocoptera that live on the bark of trees and other plants.
- barouches — Plural form of barouche.
- beerhouse — an establishment licensed to serve only liquors fermented from malt, as beer, ale, or the like.
- bifarious — having parts arranged in two rows on either side of a central axis
- birdhouse — a small shelter or box for birds to nest in
- body-surf — to ride a wave by lying on it without a surfboard
- bourasque — a tempest
- bourgeois — If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle-class people.
- brewhouse — a brewery
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
- brush off — If someone brushes you off when you speak to them, they refuse to talk to you or be nice to you.
- brush-off — a refusal to talk or listen to someone; abrupt or final dismissal or rebuff.
- brushwood — Brushwood consists of small pieces of wood that have broken off trees and bushes.
- brushwork — An artist's brushwork is their way of using their brush to put paint on a canvas and the effect that this has in the picture.
- bud sport — a shoot, inflorescence, etc, that differs from another such structure on a plant and is caused by a somatic mutation; the differences can be retained by vegetative propagation
- buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone
- burdenous — burdensome
- burroughs — Edgar Rice. 1875–1950, US novelist, author of the Tarzan stories
- burrstone — buhrstone
- bursiform — shaped like a pouch or sac
- burst edo — Burst Extended Data Out DRAM
- burst out — If someone bursts out laughing, crying, or making another noise, they suddenly start making that noise. You can also say that a noise bursts out.
- bus error — (processor) A fatal failure in the execution of a machine language instruction resulting from the processor detecting an anomalous condition on its bus. Such conditions include invalid address alignment (accessing a multi-byte number at an odd address), accessing a physical address that does not correspond to any device, or some other device-specific hardware error. A bus error triggers a processor-level exception which Unix translates into a "SIGBUS" signal which, if not caught, will terminate the current process.
- bush road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
- busy work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- busy-work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- cancerous — Cancerous cells or growths are cells or growths that are the result of cancer.
- cankerous — having cankers
- carbonous — of, containing, or derived from carbon.
- carcajous — Plural form of carcajou.
- carnosaur — any of various large carnivorous bipedal dinosaurs of the group Carnosauria, including the allosaurs
- carousals — Plural form of carousal.
- carousels — A merry-go-round.
- carousing — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- carrousel — carousel
- castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
- cauldrons — Plural form of cauldron.
- cavernous — A cavernous room or building is very large inside, and so it reminds you of a cave.