9-letter words containing r, u, s, o, p
- prisonous — resembling a prison
- proconsul — an African subgenus of Dryopithecus that lived 17–20 million years ago and is possibly ancestral to modern hominoids.
- procopius — a.d. c490–c562, Greek historian.
- procuress — a woman who procures prostitutes.
- producers — a person who produces.
- proestrus — the period immediately preceding estrus.
- profusely — spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant (often followed by in): profuse praise.
- profusion — abundance; abundant quantity.
- profusive — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- prolapsus — prolapse.
- prolusion — a preliminary written article.
- prolusory — serving for prolusion.
- promuscis — the proboscis of some insects
- propulsor — something that provides propulsion; a propeller
- prosateur — a person who writes prose, especially as a livelihood.
- prosecute — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
- proudness — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- proustite — a mineral, silver arsenic sulfide, Ag 3 AsS 3 , occurring in scarlet crystals and masses: a minor ore of silver; ruby silver.
- pterosaur — any flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having the outside digit of the forelimb greatly elongated and supporting a wing membrane.
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- pulverous — consisting of tiny particles
- purposely — intentionally; deliberately: He tripped me purposely.
- purposing — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- purposive — having, showing, or acting with a purpose, intention, or design.
- push over — shove to the ground
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- rapturous — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- reposeful — full of or suggesting repose; calm; quiet.
- repulsion — the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
- repurpose — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- responsum — the reply of a noted rabbi or Jewish scholar as rendered in the Responsa.
- rogueship — the state or quality of being a rogue or rogueish
- rustproof — not subject to rusting.
- semigroup — an algebraic system closed under an associative binary operation.
- serogroup — a group of bacteria with a common antigen
- serpukhov — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
- southport — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England: resort.
- spar buoy — a buoy resembling a vertical log
- spiritous — of the nature of spirit; immaterial, ethereal, or refined.
- splendour — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- sporidium — a small spore produced on the basidia or promycelia of fungi, etc
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- strip out — to remove the working parts of (a machine)
- stroupach — a cup of tea
- 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.
- stuporous — suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc.: He lay there in a drunken stupor.
- subperiod — a subdivision of a time period