9-letter words containing s, a, u, r
- auriscope — a medical instrument for examining the external ear
- auriscopy — (medicine) Examination of the ear using an auriscope.
- auslander — (in a German-speaking country) a foreigner
- austemper — to harden (steel) by heating and quenching to render it austenitic.
- austerely — severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding: an austere teacher.
- austerity — Austerity is a situation in which people's living standards are reduced because of economic difficulties.
- australia — a country and the smallest continent, situated between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific: a former British colony, now an independent member of the Commonwealth, constitutional links with Britain formally abolished in 1986; consists chiefly of a low plateau, mostly arid in the west, with the basin of the Murray River and the Great Dividing Range in the east and the Great Barrier Reef off the NE coast. Official language: English. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: dollar. Capital: Canberra. Pop: 23 029 674 (2013 est). Area: 7 682 300 sq km (2 966 150 sq miles)
- austrasia — the eastern region of the kingdom of the Merovingian Franks that had its capital at Metz and lasted from 511 ad until 814 ad. It covered the area now comprising NE France, Belgium, and western Germany
- autarkies — Plural form of autarky.
- auteurism — a critical film theory according to which the primary creator of a film is the director, all of whose works are said to reflect to a certain degree the characteristics of a personal style
- auteurist — a filmmaker whose individual style and complete control over all elements of production give a film its personal and unique stamp.
- authoress — An authoress is a female author. Many female writers object to this word, and prefer to be called authors.
- authorise — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- authorish — like or similar to an author
- authorism — the state or condition of being author
- autocrats — Plural form of autocrat.
- autocross — a form of motor sport in which cars race over a half-mile circuit of rough grass
- autogiros — Plural form of autogiro.
- autospore — a nonmotile algal spore that develops adult characteristics before being released
- autostart — (transitive, intransitive, computing) To start automatically.
- auxospore — a diatom cell before its silicaceous cell wall is formed
- avascular — (of certain tissues, such as cartilage) lacking blood vessels
- awestruck — If someone is awestruck, they are very impressed and amazed by something.
- aylesbury — a town in SE central England, administrative centre of Buckinghamshire. Pop: 69 021 (2001)
- azureness — The quality of being azure in colour.
- b bursary — the lower of two bursaries available for students entering university, polytechnic, etc
- babirusas — Plural form of babirusa.
- balusters — Plural form of baluster.
- bankrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bankrupt.
- barbarous — If you describe something as barbarous, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is rough and uncivilized.
- barbecues — Plural form of barbecue.
- barbeques — Plural form of barbeque.
- barfulous — /bar'fyoo-l*s/ (Or "barfucious", /bar-fyoo-sh*s/) Said of something that would make anyone barf, if only for aesthetic reasons.
- barklouse — any of numerous insects of the order Psocoptera that live on the bark of trees and other plants.
- barouches — Plural form of barouche.
- bass drum — a large shallow drum of low and indefinite pitch
- beaumaris — a resort in N Wales, on the island of Anglesey: 13th-century castle. Pop: 1513 (2001)
- bifarious — having parts arranged in two rows on either side of a central axis
- bluegrass — Bluegrass is a style of fast folk music that began in the Southern United States.
- bourasque — a tempest
- bratwurst — a type of small pork sausage
- brushback — a pitch that narrowly misses the batter
- brushland — an area of land characterized by patchy shrubs and bushes
- brushmark — the indented lines sometimes left by the bristles of a brush on a painted surface
- brutalism — an austere style of architecture characterized by emphasis on such structural materials as undressed concrete and unconcealed service pipes
- bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
- bull bars — a large protective metal grille on the front of some vehicles, esp four-wheel-drive vehicles
- bundesrat — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the council of state ministers with certain legislative and administrative powers, representing the state governments at federal level
- bursarial — of, relating to, or paid by a bursar or bursary
- bush road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.