9-letter words containing s, a, u, r
- coruscate — to emit flashes of light; sparkle
- courantes — Plural form of courante.
- courtesan — In former times, a courtesan was a woman who had sexual relationships with rich and powerful men for money.
- crapulous — characterized by intemperance, esp. in drinking; debauched
- crash out — If someone crashes out somewhere, they fall asleep where they are because they are very tired or drunk.
- crataegus — (botany) Any plant of the genus Crataegus, the hawthorns.
- craterous — of, relating to, or resembling a crater
- creamcups — a Californian papaveraceous plant, Platystemon californicus, with small cream-coloured or yellow flowers on long flower stalks
- crease up — If someone or something makes you crease up or creases you up, they make you laugh a lot.
- creatures — Plural form of creature.
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- cruiseway — a canal used for recreational purposes
- crusaders — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crusading — campaigning
- crusadoes — Plural form of crusado.
- crush bar — a bar at a theatre for serving drinks during the intervals of a play
- crushable — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- crustacea — a collective term for members of the Crustacea class of (mainly aquatic) mandibulate arthropods, characterized by their usually chitinous exoskeletons
- cubatures — Plural form of cubature.
- cuirassed — Wearing a cuirass.
- cuirasses — Plural form of cuirass.
- cuisinart — a brand of food processor
- cultivars — Plural form of cultivar.
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- curassows — Plural form of curassow.
- curatress — A female curator.
- curialism — the doctrine and methods of the ultramontane party in the Roman Catholic Church
- curialist — a member or supporter of the papal curia
- cursorial — adapted for running
- customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
- custumary — Obsolete form of customary.
- cut-grass — any grass (esp. Leersia oryzoides) having tiny hooks along the edges of the blades that cause scratches on the human skin
- cutwaters — Plural form of cutwater.
- daiquiris — Plural form of daiquiri.
- dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- darius ii — (Ochus) died 404 b.c, king of Persia 424–404 (son of Artaxerxes I).
- daughters — Plural form of daughter.
- day nurse — a nurse who is on duty during the daytime
- dean rusk — (David) Dean, 1909–94, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1961–69.
- degausser — a device that degausses
- deiparous — giving birth to a god
- denatures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denature.
- depasture — to graze or denude by grazing (a pasture, esp a meadow specially grown for the purpose)
- desargues — Gérard [zhey-rar] /ʒeɪˈrar/ (Show IPA), 1593–1662, French mathematician.
- diandrous — (of some flowers or flowering plants) having two stamens
- dinosaurs — any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
- disbursal — The act of disbursing money.
- disfavour — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disnature — to deprive (something) of its proper nature or appearance; make unnatural.
- dispauper — to divest of the status of a person having the privileges of a pauper, as of public support or of legal rights as a pauper.