9-letter words containing r, o, t, a, u
- solutrean — Archaeology. of or designating an Upper Paleolithic European culture c18,000–16,000 b.c., characterized by the making of stone projectile points and low-relief stone sculptures.
- sour salt — crystals of citric acid used as a flavoring in foods, carbonated beverages, and pharmaceuticals.
- southward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
- southwark — a borough of Greater London, England, S of the Thames.
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- squawroot — a fleshy, leafless plant, Conopholis americana, of the broomrape family, native to eastern North America, having a stout, yellowish, conelike stalk of lipped flowers, and growing in clusters, especially under oaks.
- stare out — If you stare someone out, you look steadily into their eyes for such a long time that they feel that they have to turn their eyes away from you.
- start out — begin career
- statutory — of, relating to, or of the nature of a statute.
- stegosaur — a plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Stegosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a heavy, bony armor and a row of bony plates along its back, and growing to a length of 20 to 40 feet (6–12 meters).
- stirabout — porridge.
- stourhead — a Palladian mansion near Mere in Wiltshire: built (1722) for Henry Hoare; famous for its landscaped gardens laid out (1741) by Flitcroft
- stroupach — a cup of tea
- subcantor — a deputy to a cantor
- subrogate — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- succorant — the act of seeking out affectionate care and social support.
- suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- sugarcoat — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
- superatom — a cluster of atoms behaving in certain ways like a single atom
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.
- surf boat — a strong, buoyant rowboat with high ends, adapted for beaching and passing through surf.
- surrogate — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
- swarthout — Gladys, 1904–69, U.S. soprano.
- swear out — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
- tabulator — a person or thing that tabulates.
- tambourer — someone who embroiders on a tambour
- tambourin — a long narrow drum of Provence.
- tartarous — consisting of or containing tartar.
- tau cross — a T -shaped cross.
- tauriform — shaped like a bull or the head or horns of a bull.
- teleosaur — a type of crocodile from the Jurassic period
- to a turn — to the proper amount; perfectly
- togavirus — a virus belonging to the Togaviridae family and which usually affects birds and mammals rather than humans
- top quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 176 to 199 GeV/c2, a positive charge 2⁄3 that of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- touchmark — touch (def 55a, c).
- touronaut — a person who pays a space agency money to travel into space
- trialogue — a discussion or conversation in which three persons or groups participate.
- trigamous — of or relating to trigamy or a trigamist.
- trophaeum — tropaeum.
- trousseau — an outfit of clothing, household linen, etc., for a bride.
- truckload — the amount that a truck can carry.
- tubicolar — living in a self-constructed tube
- tullamore — the county town of Offaly, Republic of Ireland; food processing and brewing. Pop: 11 098 (2002)
- turnabout — the act of turning in a different or opposite direction.
- tuscarora — a member of an Indian people living originally in North Carolina and later, after their admission into the Iroquois confederacy, in New York.
- tyrannous — tyrannical.
- ultracold — extremely cold
- ultracool — extremely sophisticated or stylish
- ultraposh — extremely posh