9-letter words containing p, r, u, s
- rapturist — a person who goes into raptures, an enthusiast
- rapturous — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- repercuss — to have or cause repercussions
- reperusal — a reading: a perusal of the current books.
- reposeful — full of or suggesting repose; calm; quiet.
- republish — to publish again: to republish a bestseller in a special illustrated edition.
- repulsing — to drive back; repel: to repulse an assailant.
- repulsion — the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
- repulsive — causing repugnance or aversion: a repulsive mask.
- repurpose — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- responsum — the reply of a noted rabbi or Jewish scholar as rendered in the Responsa.
- resuspend — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
- rogueship — the state or quality of being a rogue or rogueish
- rulership — the act or fact of ruling or the state of being ruled: Foreign rulership of the country began in the 18th century.
- rustle up — to make a succession of slight, soft sounds, as of parts rubbing gently one on another, as leaves, silks, or papers.
- rustproof — not subject to rusting.
- sapsucker — any of several American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus that drill holes in maple, apple, hemlock, etc., drinking the sap and eating the insects that gather there.
- scapulary — scapular1 .
- scrape up — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
- scrapegut — a fiddle player
- scripture — Often, Scriptures. Also called Holy Scripture, Holy Scriptures. the sacred writings of the Old or New Testaments or both together.
- sculpture — the art of carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions, as in relief, intaglio, or in the round.
- scuppered — Military. to overwhelm; surprise and destroy, disable, or massacre.
- sea purse — the horny egg case of certain rays and sharks.
- semigroup — an algebraic system closed under an associative binary operation.
- separatum — a reprint of an article separately from the magazine, journal, or book in which it was originally published; an offprint
- septarium — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- sepulcher — a tomb, grave, or burial place.
- sepulchre — to place in a sepulcher; bury.
- sepulture — the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.
- serogroup — a group of bacteria with a common antigen
- serpukhov — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
- serpulite — a fossilized calcareous tube of a serpula
- sharp-cut — cut so as to have a sharp edge: a tool with a sharp-cut blade.
- sheep-run — a large property for raising sheep
- shunpiker — a driver who takes a side road to avoid paying a turnpike toll
- southport — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England: resort.
- spar buoy — a buoy resembling a vertical log
- sparkplug — to lead, inspire, or animate something or someone.
- spartacus — died 71 b.c, Thracian slave, gladiator, and insurrectionist.
- spear gun — a device for shooting a barbed missile under water, usually by means of gas under pressure, a strong rubber band, or a powerful spring.
- spelunker — a person who explores caves, especially as a hobby.
- spirillum — any of several spirally twisted, aerobic bacteria of the genus Spirillum, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans.
- spiritful — full of spirit or spiritual
- spiritous — of the nature of spirit; immaterial, ethereal, or refined.
- spiritual — of, relating to, or consisting of spirit; incorporeal.
- spirituel — showing or having a refined and graceful mind or wit.
- spirulina — any of the blue-green algae of the genus Spirulina, sometimes added to food for its nutrient value.
- spit curl — a tight curl of hair, usually pressed against the forehead or cheek.
- splendour — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.