9-letter words containing o, u, t, s, i
- outsiders — Plural form of outsider.
- outskirts — Often, outskirts. the outlying district or region, as of a city, metropolitan area, or the like: to live on the outskirts of town; a sparsely populated outskirt.
- outspring — to spring out
- outsprint — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- outstrain — to strain or stretch too much
- outstride — to surpass in striding
- outstrike — (transitive) To strike faster than.
- outstrips — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outstrip.
- outstrive — to strive harder than
- outswings — Plural form of outswing.
- outweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outweigh.
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- perotinus — ("Magnus Magister") fl. late 12th to early 13th century, French composer.
- pertusion — the process or act of making a hole with a stabbing or penetrating implement
- 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
- pirithoüs — a prince of the Lapiths, who accomplished many great deeds with his friend Theseus
- pistorius — Oscar (Leonard Carl), born 1986, South African sprinter in races for below-the-knee amputees; winner of six Paralympic gold medals (2004–2012); found guilty of the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (1983–2013)
- pituitous — mucous.
- platinous — containing bivalent platinum.
- plutonism — the intrusion of magma and associated deep-seated processes within the earth's crust.
- popliteus — a thin, flat, triangular muscle in back of the knee, the action of which assists in bending the knee and in rotating the leg toward the body.
- postaudit — an audit of accounting records, conducted at some interval of time after a transaction or a series of transactions has already occurred.
- posticous — hinder; posterior.
- posturing — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- posturise — to posture; pose.
- posturize — to posture; pose.
- potassium — a silvery-white metallic element that oxidizes rapidly in the air and whose compounds are used as fertilizer and in special hard glasses. Symbol: K; atomic weight: 39.102; atomic number: 19; specific gravity: 0.86 at 20°C.
- pretorius — Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus [ahn-drees vil-hel-moo s yah-kaw-boo s] /ˈɑn dris vɪlˈhɛl mʊs yɑˈkɔ bʊs/ (Show IPA), 1799–1853, and his son Marthinus Wessels [mahr-tee-noo s ves-uh ls] /mɑrˈti nʊs ˈvɛs əls/ (Show IPA) 1819–1901, Boer soldiers and statesmen in South Africa.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- proustite — a mineral, silver arsenic sulfide, Ag 3 AsS 3 , occurring in scarlet crystals and masses: a minor ore of silver; ruby silver.
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- 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).
- retrusion — the act of moving a tooth backward.
- righteous — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- rotavirus — a double-stranded RNA virus of the genus Rotavirus, family Reoviridae, that is a major cause of infant diarrhea.
- routinism — adherence to routine.
- routinist — someone who lives by routine
- 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.
- sausalito — a town in W California on San Fransisco Bay: resort; formerly artist's colony.
- scorbutic — pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with scurvy.
- scrutoire — writing desk (def 1).
- scutiform — being in the shape of a shield; shield-shaped.
- seditious — of, relating to, or of the nature of sedition.
- seduction — an act or instance of seducing, especially sexually.
- sertorius — Quintus [kwin-tuh s] /ˈkwɪn təs/ (Show IPA), died 72 b.c, Roman general and statesman.