9-letter words containing o, u, s, t
- psych out — to intimidate or frighten psychologically, or make nervous (often followed by out): to psych out the competition.
- psych-out — an act or instance of psyching out.
- pterosaur — any flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having the outside digit of the forelimb greatly elongated and supporting a wing membrane.
- pulpstone — a calcified mass in a dental cavity
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- push shot — Basketball. a shot with one hand from a point relatively distant from the basket, in which a player shoots the ball from shoulder level or above.
- puss moth — a large pale prominent moth, Cerura vinula, whose larvae feed on willow and poplar, and are bright green with a masklike red head and claspers modified as "tails" that are protruded and raised in a state of alarm: family Notodontidae
- pussyfoot — to go or move in a stealthy or cautious manner.
- pussytoes — any of various woolly plants of the genus Antennaria
- pustulous — pustular.
- quaestors — Plural form of quaestor.
- quartzose — one of the commonest minerals, silicon dioxide, SiO 2 , having many varieties that differ in color, luster, etc., and occurring either in masses (as agate, bloodstone, chalcedony, jasper, etc.) or in crystals (as rock crystal, amethyst, citrine, etc.): the chief constituent of sand and sandstone, and an important constituent of many other rocks. It is piezoelectric and used to control the frequencies of radio transmitters.
- questions — Plural form of question.
- quicksort — A sorting algorithm with O(n log n) average time complexity. One element, x of the list to be sorted is chosen and the other elements are split into those elements less than x and those greater than or equal to x. These two lists are then sorted recursively using the same algorithm until there is only one element in each list, at which point the sublists are recursively recombined in order yielding the sorted list. This can be written in Haskell:
- quietsome — still, calm, quiet
- quixotism — (sometimes initial capital letter) quixotic character or practice.
- quotients — Plural form of quotient.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rapturous — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- reconsult — to consult (someone or something) again
- retrousse — (especially of the nose) turned up.
- retrusion — the act of moving a tooth backward.
- righteous — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- rock dust — a crushed limestone sprayed on surfaces in mines to make coal dust incombustible in case of a gas explosion.
- rostellum — Biology. any small, beaklike process.
- rotavirus — a double-stranded RNA virus of the genus Rotavirus, family Reoviridae, that is a major cause of infant diarrhea.
- roughcast — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
- rousement — a stirring up of religious excitement
- roussette — a type of dogfish
- routinism — adherence to routine.
- routinist — someone who lives by routine
- routously — in a routous manner
- rubtsovsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia.
- run short — having little length; not long.
- rustproof — not subject to rusting.
- rutaceous — of or like rue.
- sandspout — the sand sucked into the air by a whirlwind
- 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.
- saturator — a person or thing that saturates.
- sauceboat — a low, boat-shaped container for serving sauce or gravy, typically having a handle at one end and a long, wide lip at the other end.
- sausalito — a town in W California on San Fransisco Bay: resort; formerly artist's colony.
- scoop out — remove, take out
- scope out — extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.: an investigation of wide scope.
- scopulate — broom-shaped; brushlike.
- scorbutic — pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with scurvy.
- score out — to delete or cancel by marking through with a line or lines; cross out
- scout car — a fast, lightly-armored military vehicle equipped with guns and used chiefly for reconnaissance.
- scout out — If you scout something out, you succeed in finding it after you have been through an area searching for it.
- scouthery — scorching