9-letter words containing p, r, u, s
- disrupter — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- disruptor — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- douzepers — the 12 great peers of the realm, seen as the symbolic heirs of Charlemagne's 12 chosen peers
- downpours — Plural form of downpour.
- drop-outs — 1. A variety of "power glitch" (see glitch); momentary zero voltage on the electrical mains. 2. Missing characters in typed input due to software malfunction or system overload (one cause of such behaviour under Unix when a bad connection to a modem swamps the processor with spurious character interrupts; see screaming tty). 3. Mental glitches; used as a way of describing those occasions when the mind just seems to shut down for a couple of beats. See glitch, fried.
- drupelets — Plural form of drupelet.
- dumpsters — Plural form of dumpster.
- dustproof — impervious to or free of dust.
- emporiums — Plural form of emporium.
- empurples — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of empurple.
- epicurism — Epicureanism.
- epidaurus — an ancient port in Greece, in the NE Peloponnese, in Argolis on the Saronic Gulf
- epidurals — Plural form of epidural.
- eruptions — Plural form of eruption.
- euphrasia — eyebright
- euphrates — a river in SW Asia, rising in E Turkey and flowing south across Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris, forming the Shatt-al-Arab, which flows to the head of the Persian Gulf: important in ancient times for the extensive irrigation of its valley (in Mesopotamia). Length: 3598 km (2235 miles)
- euripides — ?480–406 bc, Greek tragic dramatist. His plays, 18 of which are extant, include Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, Hecuba, Trojan Women, Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Iphigeneia in Aulis, and Bacchae
- eurocorps — a multinational army corps based in Strasbourg and participated in by mainly EU countries
- eutropous — (of an insect or plant) adapted for pollination
- exposures — Plural form of exposure.
- fireplugs — Plural form of fireplug.
- flip-spur — (language) An early system on the IBM 1130.
- fluorspar — fluorite.
- four-spot — a playing card or the upward face of a die bearing four pips; a domino, one half of which bears four pips.
- frumpiest — frumpish.
- gaspergou — freshwater drum.
- gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
- group sex — sexual activity involving three or more people
- groupings — Plural form of grouping.
- groupwise — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
- grumpiest — surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
- guardpost — Alternative spelling of guard post.
- guardship — a warship responsible for the safety of other ships in its company
- gunperson — (rare) A gunman or gunwoman.
- hapsburgs — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- hard-spun — (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.
- harrumphs — Plural form of harrumph.
- haruspicy — divination by a haruspex.
- hornpouts — Plural form of hornpout.
- humphries — (John) Barry. born 1934, Australian comic actor and writer, best known for creating the character Dame Edna Everage
- imperious — domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
- imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
- in spurts — If something happens in spurts, there are periods of activity followed by periods in which it does not happen.
- ipso jure — by the law itself; by operation of law.
- issue par — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
- jasperous — Containing jasper, composed of jasper.
- jumpstart — Also, jump. Automotive. the starting of an internal-combustion engine that has a discharged or weak battery by means of booster cables.
- kerplunks — Plural form of kerplunk.
- krupskaya — Nadezhda Konstantinovna [nuh-dye-zhduh kuh n-stuhn-tyee-nuh v-nuh] /nʌˈdyɛ ʒdə kən stʌnˈtyi nəv nə/ (Show IPA), 1869–1939, Russian social worker and wife of V.I. Lenin.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.