9-letter words containing r, l, e, s
- obscurely — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- obversely — In an obverse manner.
- odourless — Having no odour.
- ogreishly — in the manner of an ogre
- oil press — a device for extracting oil from plant material, esp. olives
- old norse — the Germanic language of medieval Scandinavia. Abbreviation: ON.
- oleanders — Plural form of oleander.
- oleasters — Plural form of oleaster.
- oleoresin — a mixture of an essential oil and a resin, found in nature.
- oligomers — Plural form of oligomer.
- onerously — In an onerous manner.
- onlookers — Plural form of onlooker.
- operosely — In an operose manner.
- orderless — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- orderlies — arranged or disposed in a neat, tidy manner or in a regular sequence: an orderly desk.
- 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.
- ostleress — a female ostler
- ourselves — Used as the object of a verb or preposition when this is the same as the subject of the clause and the subject is the speaker and one or more other people considered together.
- outersole — outsole.
- outliners — Plural form of outliner.
- outlustre — (poetic, transitive) To surpass in brightness or lustre; to outshine.
- overbills — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbill.
- overclass — a social stratum consisting of educated and wealthy people considered to control the economic power of a country.
- overclose — to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut.
- overfalls — Oceanography. water made rough by a strong current moving over a shoal, by an opposing current, or by winds blowing against the current.
- overflush — too flush
- overlands — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- overlusty — too lusty
- overscale — larger or more extensive than normal or usual; outsize; oversize.
- oversleep — to sleep beyond the proper or intended time of waking: He overslept and missed his train.
- overslept — to sleep beyond the proper or intended time of waking: He overslept and missed his train.
- overspill — to spill over.
- overswell — to overflow
- ownerless — having no owner
- palaestra — Greek Antiquity. palestra.
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- palsgrave — a German count palatine.
- paperless — a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc.
- par-sable — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- parallels — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
- paralysed — unable to move and with no feeling
- paralyses — Pathology. a loss or impairment of voluntary movement in a body part, caused by injury or disease of the nerves, brain, or spinal cord. a disease characterized by this, especially palsy.
- parasoled — having a parasol
- parietals — the regulations that govern living within a college
- parsleyed — cooked with or sprinkled with parsley
- pasquiler — a person who lampoons or pasquinades; a satirist
- pastorale — an opera, cantata, or the like, with a pastoral subject.
- pearl ash — the granular crystalline form of potassium carbonate