9-letter words containing o, u, r, s
- labourist — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
- labourous — Obsolete form of laborious.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of larceny.
- lecherous — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
- leprously — In a leprous way.
- liquorish — fond of and eager for choice food.
- longspurs — Plural form of longspur.
- longueurs — Plural form of longueur.
- louisburg — a seaport on SE Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in SE Canada: French fortress captured by British 1745, 1758.
- lounsbury — Thomas Raynesford [reynz-ferd] /ˈreɪnz fərd/ (Show IPA), 1838–1915, U.S. linguist and educator.
- lousewort — any plant belonging to the genus Pedicularis, of the figwort family, as the wood betony, formerly supposed to cause lice in sheep feeding on it: one species, P. furbishiae (Furbish lousewort) of parts of Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, having finely toothed leaves and a cluster of yellow flowers, is endangered and was thought to be extinct until specimens were discovered in 1946 and again in 1976.
- lubricous — (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery.
- ludicrous — causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable: a ludicrous lack of efficiency.
- lungworms — Plural form of lungworm.
- lungworts — Plural form of lungwort.
- lunisolar — pertaining to or based upon the relations or joint action of the moon and the sun.
- lusterous — Misspelling of lustrous.
- lustrious — Fantastic; amazing; splendid.
- luxurious — characterized by luxury; ministering or conducive to luxury: a luxurious hotel.
- lyomerous — of or relating to Lyomeri fish
- macrotous — having large ears
- macrurous — long-tailed, as a lobster (opposed to brachyurous).
- malarious — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- malodours — Plural form of malodour.
- marabouts — Plural form of marabout.
- marruecos — Spanish name of Morocco.
- marvelous — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- meandrous — meandering; winding; rambling.
- mercurous — containing univalent mercury, Hg +1 or Hg 2 +2 .
- meritious — Having merit.
- meteorous — resembling, or having the nature of, a meteor
- micronuts — Plural form of micronut.
- midcourse — the middle of a course.
- minotaurs — Plural form of minotaur.
- miscolour — (transitive) To give a wrong colour to.
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- misquoter — a person who quotes others inaccurately or incorrectly
- misrouted — a course, way, or road for passage or travel: What's the shortest route to Boston?
- moistured — Supplied with moisture.
- moistures — Plural form of moisture.
- monsieurs — Plural form of monsieur.
- monstrous — frightful or hideous, especially in appearance; extremely ugly.
- moraceous — belonging to the Moraceae, the mulberry family of plants.
- mosasaurs — Plural form of mosasaur.
- mossbauer — Rudolf L [roo-dawlf] /ˈru dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1929–2011, German physicist: Nobel prize 1961.
- most-euro — European: a Euro expert.
- mournings — Plural form of mourning.
- mouse-ear — short for mouse-ear chickweed
- mousebird — coly.