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9-letter words containing r, u, n, t, i

  • 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.
  • strouding — a woolly material used to make strouds or blankets
  • strutting — walking or moving with a strut; walking pompously; pompous.
  • subentire — (of parts of plants) slightly indented
  • suctorian — a suctorial animal.
  • sunbright — as bright as the sun, very bright
  • superthin — extremely thin
  • supinator — a muscle used in supination.
  • sustainer — a person or thing that sustains.
  • tambourin — a long narrow drum of Provence.
  • tarpaulin — a protective covering of canvas or other material waterproofed with tar, paint, or wax.
  • tarquinii — an ancient city of Etruria, in central Italy, NW of Rome: present-day Tarquinia on site.
  • taruntius — a crater in the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 38 miles (61 km) in diameter.
  • tellurian — of or characteristic of the earth or its inhabitants; terrestrial.
  • tellurion — an apparatus for showing the manner in which the diurnal rotation and annual revolution of the earth and the obliquity of its axis produce the alternation of day and night and the changes of the seasons.
  • tentorium — Anatomy. an extension of one of the membranes covering the cerebrum which, with the transverse fissure, separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum.
  • thon buri — a city in S Thailand, near Bangkok.
  • thrumming — to play on a stringed instrument, as a guitar, by plucking the strings, especially in an idle, monotonous, or unskillful manner; strum.
  • thrusting — to push forcibly; shove; put or drive with force: He thrust his way through the crowd. She thrust a dagger into his back.
  • thuringer — a mildly seasoned cervelat, either fresh or smoked.
  • thuringia — a state in central Germany. 5985 sq. mi. (15,550 sq. km) Capital: Erfurt.
  • torminous — suffering from tormina
  • torturing — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
  • tourcoing — a city in N France, near the Belgian border.
  • trachinus — a weever fish
  • traguline — like or characteristic of a tragule
  • trial run — a preliminary performance or test of something, as of the operation of a ship or the effectiveness of a play.
  • triannual — done, occurring, issued, etc., three times a year.
  • tribunate — the office of tribune.
  • tridentum — ancient name of Trent, Italy.
  • triennium — a period of three years.
  • trigonous — having three angles or corners, as a stem or seed; triangular.
  • trigynous — (of a plant) having three pistils
  • troubling — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
  • trouncing — to beat severely; thrash.
  • truanting — the condition or action of playing truant
  • truckline — a transportation line utilizing trucks.
  • trunkfish — any plectognath fish of the family Ostraciontidae, of warm seas, having a boxlike body encased in bony, polygonal plates.
  • turbinate — Also, turbinated. having the shape of an inverted cone; scroll-like; whorled; spiraled.
  • turkistan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
  • turmaline — tourmaline.
  • turn tail — the hindmost part of an animal, especially that forming a distinct, flexible appendage to the trunk.
  • turnagain — an about-turn
  • turnstile — a structure of four horizontally revolving arms pivoted atop a post and set in a gateway or opening in a fence to allow the controlled passage of people.
  • uitlander — a foreigner, especially a British settler in the Boer republics prior to the formation of the Union of South Africa.
  • ultradian — of or relating to a biorhythm having a period of less than 24 hours.
  • ultrafine — extremely small or delicate
  • ultrathin — extremely thin: an ultrathin wristwatch.
  • ultratiny — extremely small or minute
  • un-strict — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
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