9-letter words containing s, a, c, r, o
- macaroons — Plural form of macaroon.
- macro sap — Macro processing modification of SAP. D.E. Eastwood and D.M. McIlroy, unpublished memorandum, Bell Labs 1959. Led to TRAC.
- macrocosm — the great world or universe; the universe considered as a whole (opposed to microcosm).
- macrocyst — a large cyst or spore case, especially the encysted, resting plasmodium of a slime mold.
- macropods — Plural form of macropod.
- macropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be larger than their actual size.
- macrotous — having large ears
- macrurous — long-tailed, as a lobster (opposed to brachyurous).
- marruecos — Spanish name of Morocco.
- mascarons — grotesque face used as decoration
- masoretic — of or relating to the Masorah or the Masoretes.
- mescalero — a member of a group of Apache Indians who originally inhabited northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S. east of the Rio Grande, have intermarried with the Chiricahua and Lipan, and are presently situated in New Mexico.
- mesocarps — Plural form of mesocarp.
- mesocrany — the state of having a medium breadth of skull
- microbars — Plural form of microbar.
- micropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
- microstat — a negative of a microphotograph made directly from a negative by a copy camera.
- monocarps — Plural form of monocarp.
- moraceous — belonging to the Moraceae, the mulberry family of plants.
- mosbacher — Emil, Jr ("Bus") 1922–1997, U.S. yacht racer and government official.
- motorcars — Plural form of motorcar.
- narcotics — Plural form of narcotic.
- narcotise — Alternative spelling of narcotize.
- narcotism — habitual use of narcotics.
- narcotist — One who is addicted to a narcotic drug.
- nectarous — of the nature of or resembling nectar.
- nonracist — One who is not a racist.
- nonsacred — Not sacred.
- nostratic — designating or of a proposed language superfamily that includes the Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Dravidian, Uralic, and Altaic families
- notecards — An ambitious hypertext system developed at Xerox PARC, "designed to support the task of transforming a chaotic collection of unrelated thoughts into an integrated, orderly interpretation of ideas and their interconnections".
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obsecrate — to entreat solemnly; beseech; supplicate.
- ocularist — a person who makes artificial eyes
- oligarchs — Plural form of oligarch.
- operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
- oraculous — resembling an oracle
- orchestra — a group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions.
- orgiastic — of, relating to, or having the nature of an orgy.
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- ostracean — a member of the family formerly called Ostracea
- ostracise — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- ostracism — exclusion, by general consent, from social acceptance, privileges, friendship, etc.
- ostracize — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- ostracods — Plural form of ostracod.
- outscream — to scream louder than
- outsearch — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- overcasts — Plural form of overcast.
- overclass — a social stratum consisting of educated and wealthy people considered to control the economic power of a country.
- overcoats — Plural form of overcoat.
- oversauce — to put too much sauce on