9-letter words containing r, i, s, e, n
- nourishes — Plural form of nourish.
- nuisancer — a person that creates a nuisance or public offence
- nunneries — Plural form of nunnery.
- nurselike — resembling or having the characteristics of a nurse
- nurseling — an infant, child, or young animal being nursed or being cared for by a nurse.
- nursemaid — Also called nurserymaid. a woman or girl employed to care for a child or several children, especially in a household.
- nurseries — Plural form of nursery.
- nutrients — nourishing; providing nourishment or nutriment.
- observing — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
- obversion — an act or instance of obverting.
- offerings — Plural form of offering.
- oleoresin — a mixture of an essential oil and a resin, found in nature.
- omniverse — A number of supposedly co-existing universes.
- omnivores — Plural form of omnivore.
- on strike — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- onerosity — burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship: onerous duties.
- orangeism — the principles and practices of the Orangemen.
- orderings — Plural form of ordering.
- ordinates — Plural form of ordinate.
- organised — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- organiser — Standard spelling of organizer.
- organises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of organise.
- organizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of organize.
- orientals — Plural form of oriental.
- orleanais — a former province in N France. Capital: Orléans.
- orleanist — a supporter of the Orléans branch of the former French royal family and of its claim to the throne of France through descent from the younger brother of Louis XIV.
- orneriest — ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper: No one can get along with my ornery cousin.
- ostringer — astringer.
- outliners — Plural form of outliner.
- ovenbirds — Plural form of ovenbird.
- overshine — to outshine: One star seemed to overshine all others.
- overstain — to stain too much
- overstink — to stink more than (something else)
- overswing — to swing too hard, hoping to apply more power.
- ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
- oystering — any of several edible, marine, bivalve mollusks of the family Ostreidae, having an irregularly shaped shell, occurring on the bottom or adhering to rocks or other objects in shallow water.
- paintress — a female painter
- panderism — the work of a pander
- parenesis — exhortation; admonition
- passerine — of, belonging, or pertaining to the order Passeriformes, comprising more than half of all birds and typically having the feet adapted for perching.
- patronise — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- penis war — (jargon, abuse) (Or "Dick Size War", "DSW") Any argument which has degenerated into quantitative boasting of the sort "My [program|bot|etc.] is [faster|meaner|etc.] than yours!". Generally as unconstructive (and with as little emphasis on empirical proof) as men debating who has the biggest penis. The term is often used on IRC, news:alt.sysadmin.recovery, and sometimes applied to IRC botwars, because of their equally pointless nature.
- pensioner — a person who receives or lives on a pension.
- penurious — extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
- perfusion — the act of perfusing.
- periscian — a person whose shadow moves round every point of the compass during a day, i.e. a person located in the polar regions
- perishing — causing destruction, ruin, extreme discomfort, or death: lost in the perishing cold.
- perkiness — jaunty; cheerful; brisk; pert.
- peronista — Peronist.
- perotinus — ("Magnus Magister") fl. late 12th to early 13th century, French composer.