9-letter words containing r, u, s, m, a
- meursault — a dry, white Burgundy wine produced in the district around Meursault in E France.
- minotaurs — Plural form of minotaur.
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- moraceous — belonging to the Moraceae, the mulberry family of plants.
- mosasaurs — Plural form of mosasaur.
- mossbauer — Rudolf L [roo-dawlf] /ˈru dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1929–2011, German physicist: Nobel prize 1961.
- mouse-ear — short for mouse-ear chickweed
- mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
- muckrakes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of muckrake.
- mudguards — Plural form of mudguard.
- mule-ears — any of several composite plants of the genus Wyethia, of the western U.S., having large leaves and broad flower heads with yellow rays.
- muralists — Plural form of muralist.
- muscarine — a poisonous compound, C 8 H 1 9 NO 3 , found in certain mushrooms, especially fly agaric, and in decaying fish.
- mush area — a region where signals from two or more radio transmitters overlap, causing fading and distortion
- mushairas — Plural form of mushaira.
- musharraf — Pervez (ˈpɛrveɪz). born 1943, Pakistani general and politician; became military leader of Pakistan following a coup in 2001; president (2001–08)
- must-read — a piece of literature or writing considered important or classic; writing that should or must be read.
- mustanger — a person who engages in mustanging.
- neuromast — a group of innervated sensory cells occurring along the lateral line of fishes and aquatic amphibians.
- new sarum — a city in S England, in SE Wiltshire: nearby Old Sarum was the site of an Early Iron Age hill fort; its cathedral (1220–58) has the highest spire in England. Pop: 43 355 (2001)
- numerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of numerate.
- nursemaid — Also called nurserymaid. a woman or girl employed to care for a child or several children, especially in a household.
- ossuarium — ossuary.
- 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.
- pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
- pluralism — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- quagmires — Plural form of quagmire.
- quakerism — the beliefs, principles, and practices of Quakers.
- rap music — a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.
- rasmussen — Knud Johan Victor [knooth yoo-hahn veek-tawr] /knuð yʊˈhɑn ˈvik tɔr/ (Show IPA), 1879–1933, Danish arctic explorer.
- remeasure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- ritualism — adherence to or insistence on ritual.
- roundsman — a person who makes rounds, as of inspection.
- saccharum — a brewing sugar derived from cane sugar
- sacrarium — Roman Catholic Church. a piscina.
- sargassum — any seaweed of the genus Sargassum, widely distributed in the warmer waters of the globe, as S. bacciferum, the common gulfweed.
- sarmentum — a slender running stem; runner.
- sarum use — the liturgy or modified form of the Roman rite used in Salisbury before the Reformation and revived in part by some English churches.
- satu-mare — a city in NW Romania.
- saturnism — lead poisoning (def 1b).
- scrummage — scrum (defs 1, 3).
- scumboard — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- semilunar — shaped like a half-moon; crescent.
- semirural — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
- semiurban — of, relating to, or designating a city or town.
- separatum — a reprint of an article separately from the magazine, journal, or book in which it was originally published; an offprint