9-letter words containing r, o, m, u, s
- murchison — an intermittent river in W Australia, flowing SW to the Indian Ocean. 440 miles (708 km) long.
- murderous — of the nature of or involving murder: a murderous deed.
- murmurous — abounding in or characterized by murmurs.
- musciform — (botany) Having the appearance or form of a moss.
- mushrooms — Plural form of mushroom.
- mushroomy — Redolent of mushrooms.
- musk rose — a rose, Rosa moschata, of the Mediterranean region, having white, musk-scented flowers.
- mycovirus — any fungus-infecting virus.
- myxovirus — any of a group of medium-sized, RNA-containing viruses having a helical envelope, infectious to humans and other animals and a cause of influenza.
- neuromast — a group of innervated sensory cells occurring along the lateral line of fishes and aquatic amphibians.
- no-trumps — a bid or contract to play without trumps
- numberous — Obsolete form of numerous.
- ossuarium — ossuary.
- outermost — farthest out; remotest from the interior or center: the outermost limits.
- outmaster — to surpass
- outscream — to scream louder than
- outsmarts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outsmart.
- outstream — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- promuscis — the proboscis of some insects
- reremouse — a bat.
- responsum — the reply of a noted rabbi or Jewish scholar as rendered in the Responsa.
- rostellum — Biology. any small, beaklike process.
- roundsman — a person who makes rounds, as of inspection.
- rousement — a stirring up of religious excitement
- routinism — adherence to routine.
- schomburg — Arthur Alfonso, 1874–1938, U.S. scholar and collector of books on black literature and history, born in Puerto Rico.
- scrumdown — the forming of a scrum in rugby
- scumboard — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- scutiform — being in the shape of a shield; shield-shaped.
- semigroup — an algebraic system closed under an associative binary operation.
- semiround — having one surface that is round and another that is flat.
- sensorium — a part of the brain or the brain itself regarded as the seat of sensation.
- simarouba — any tropical American tree belonging to the genus Simaruba, of the quassia family, having pinnate leaves, a fleshy fruit, and a root whose bark contains an appetite stimulant.
- simulator — a person or thing that simulates.
- sour mash — a blended grain mash used in the distilling of some whiskeys, consisting of new mash and a portion of mash from a preceding run and yielding a high rate of lactic acid.
- sour milk — milk that has spoiled
- sporidium — a small spore produced on the basidia or promycelia of fungi, etc
- squiredom — the squirearchy.
- strontium — a bivalent, metallic element whose compounds resemble those of calcium, found in nature only in the combined state, as in strontianite: used in fireworks, flares, and tracer bullets. Symbol: Sr; atomic weight: 87.62; atomic number: 38; specific gravity: 2.6.
- stumpwork — a type of embroidery popular in the 17th century, consisting of intricate, colorful designs padded with horsehair to make them stand out in relief.
- submicron — (of particles) being less than a micron in overall dimensions.
- subnormal — below the normal; less than or inferior to the normal: a subnormal amount of rain.
- superatom — a cluster of atoms behaving in certain ways like a single atom
- superbomb — a highly destructive bomb, especially a hydrogen bomb.
- supermoto — a form of motorcycle racing in which powerful motorbikes are raced over a circuit that is part tarmac and part dirt
- torminous — suffering from tormina
- tremorous — involuntary shaking of the body or limbs, as from disease, fear, weakness, or excitement; a fit of trembling.
- tremulous — (of persons, the body, etc.) characterized by trembling, as from fear, nervousness, or weakness.
- trigamous — of or relating to trigamy or a trigamist.