9-letter words containing r, e, u, t, s
- resurgent — rising or tending to rise again; reviving; renascent.
- resurrect — to raise from the dead; bring to life again.
- retiarius — a gladiator equipped with a net for casting over his opponent.
- retrousse — (especially of the nose) turned up.
- retrusion — the act of moving a tooth backward.
- retrusive — the act of moving a tooth backward.
- righteous — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- rostellum — Biology. any small, beaklike process.
- rousement — a stirring up of religious excitement
- roussette — a type of dogfish
- rubescent — becoming red; blushing.
- rudiments — When you learn the rudiments of something, you learn the simplest or most essential things about it.
- rufescent — somewhat reddish; tinged with red; rufous.
- rundstedt — Karl Rudolf Gerd von [kahrl roo-dawlf gerd fuh n] /kɑrl ˈru dɔlf gɛrd fən/ (Show IPA), 1875–1953, German field marshal.
- runesmith — a student, writer, transcriber, or decipherer of runes.
- rust belt — the heavily industrial area of the northeastern U.S. containing the older industries and factories.
- rust mite — any of various mites that cause brown or reddish patches on leaves and fruit.
- rusticate — to go to the country.
- rusticize — to make rustic
- rustle up — to make a succession of slight, soft sounds, as of parts rubbing gently one on another, as leaves, silks, or papers.
- rutaceous — of or like rue.
- saleratus — sodium bicarbonate used in cookery; baking soda.
- saluretic — of or relating to a substance that promotes renal excretion of sodium and chloride ions.
- sarmentum — a slender running stem; runner.
- satu-mare — a city in NW Romania.
- saturable — capable of being saturated.
- saturated — saturated.
- saturater — a person or thing that saturates.
- saturnine — sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn.
- sauntered — to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll: sauntering through the woods.
- sauternes — a semisweet white wine of California, commonly sold as a jug wine.
- schmutter — cloth or clothing
- score out — to delete or cancel by marking through with a line or lines; cross out
- scouthery — scorching
- scrapegut — a fiddle player
- screw nut — a nut threaded to receive a screw.
- scripture — Often, Scriptures. Also called Holy Scripture, Holy Scriptures. the sacred writings of the Old or New Testaments or both together.
- scrutable — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
- scrutoire — writing desk (def 1).
- 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.
- sea route — a route followed by ships
- sea trout — any of various species of trout inhabiting salt water, as the salmon trout, Salmo trutta.
- secateurs — scissors or shears, especially pruning shears.
- securitan — a person believing they are secure
- semitruck — tractor-trailer.
- 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.
- sepulture — the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.
- sequester — to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.
- sequestra — a fragment of bone that has become necrotic as a result of disease or injury and has separated from the normal bone structure.