9-letter words containing s, a, u, r
- labourist — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
- labourous — Obsolete form of laborious.
- laburnums — any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, especially L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum.
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- landsturm — a general draft of people in time of war.
- langrenus — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 85 miles (135 km) in diameter.
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of larceny.
- larkspurs — Plural form of larkspur.
- laughters — the action or sound of laughing.
- launchers — Plural form of launcher.
- laundress — a woman whose work is the washing and ironing of clothes, linens, etc.
- laundries — Plural form of laundry.
- laureates — Plural form of laureate.
- leaf rust — a disease, especially of cereals and other grasses, characterized by rust-colored pustules of spores on the affected leaf blades and sheaths and caused by any of several rust fungi.
- ligatures — Plural form of ligature.
- lincrusta — a wallpaper having a hard embossed surface
- literatus — singular of literati.
- lunisolar — pertaining to or based upon the relations or joint action of the moon and the sun.
- lustrated — Simple past tense and past participle of lustrate.
- lustrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lustrate.
- lustrical — Pertaining to, or used for, purification.
- macrotous — having large ears
- macrurous — long-tailed, as a lobster (opposed to brachyurous).
- maiasaura — a species of large, herbivorous, duck-billed dinosaur
- make sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- malarious — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- malodours — Plural form of malodour.
- man crush — an intense but non-sexual admiration felt by one man for another
- maneuvers — Plural form of maneuver.
- maneuvres — Plural form of maneuvre.
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- maquisard — maquis (def 2).
- marabouts — Plural form of marabout.
- marauders — Plural form of marauder.
- marcellus — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- margulies — Donald. born 1955, US playwright; plays include The Loman Family Picnic (1989) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends (1999)
- marinus i — died a.d. 884, pope 882–884.
- marquesan — a Polynesian native of the Marquesas Islands.
- marquises — Plural form of marquis.
- marruecos — Spanish name of Morocco.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- marsquake — a tremor, similar to an earthquake, on Mars
- marsupial — any viviparous, nonplacental mammal of the order Marsupialia, comprising the opossums, kangaroos, wombats, and bandicoots, the females of most species having a marsupium containing the mammary glands and serving as a receptacle for the young.
- marsupian — (obsolete) marsupial.
- marsupium — the pouch or fold of skin on the abdomen of a female marsupial.
- marvelous — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- masterful — dominating; self-willed; imperious.
- mastigure — Any of the spiny-tailed lizards of the genus Uromastyx.