9-letter words containing s, e, r, n
- ordinates — Plural form of ordinate.
- organised — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- organiser — Standard spelling of organizer.
- organises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of organise.
- organizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of organize.
- orientals — Plural form of oriental.
- orleanais — a former province in N France. Capital: Orléans.
- orleanist — a supporter of the Orléans branch of the former French royal family and of its claim to the throne of France through descent from the younger brother of Louis XIV.
- ornaments — Plural form of ornament.
- orneriest — ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper: No one can get along with my ornery cousin.
- osborne 1 — (computer) A portable computer that weighed 11 kg and cost $1795, produced by Osborne Computer Corporation in 1981. The Osborne 1 came with a five-inch screen, modem port, two 5 1/4 floppy drives and a battery pack. It came with the CP/M operating system, SuperCalc spreadsheet application, WordStar, word processing application, Microsoft MBASIC programming language and Digital Research CBASIC programming language.
- ostensory — monstrance.
- ostracean — a member of the family formerly called Ostracea
- ostringer — astringer.
- otherness — the state or fact of being different or distinct.
- outerness — The quality of being outer.
- outliners — Plural form of outliner.
- outreason — (transitive) To surpass in reasoning; to reason better than.
- ovenbirds — Plural form of ovenbird.
- overlands — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- overshine — to outshine: One star seemed to overshine all others.
- overspend — to spend more than one can afford: Receiving a small inheritance, she began to overspend alarmingly.
- overstain — to stain too much
- overstand — overreach (def 13).
- overstink — to stink more than (something else)
- overswing — to swing too hard, hoping to apply more power.
- overtones — additional meanings or nuances
- owensboro — a city in NW Kentucky, on the Ohio River.
- ownerless — having no owner
- ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
- oystering — any of several edible, marine, bivalve mollusks of the family Ostreidae, having an irregularly shaped shell, occurring on the bottom or adhering to rocks or other objects in shallow water.
- oysterman — a person who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- paintress — a female painter
- panderess — a female panderer
- panderism — the work of a pander
- panderous — resembling a pander
- pantdress — a dress with a divided skirt
- parenesis — exhortation; admonition
- parentese — baby talk (def 2).
- parsonage — the residence of a member of the clergy, as provided by the parish or church.
- parthenos — an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”.
- passenger — a person who is traveling in an automobile, bus, train, airplane, or other conveyance, especially one who is not the driver, pilot, or the like.
- passerine — of, belonging, or pertaining to the order Passeriformes, comprising more than half of all birds and typically having the feet adapted for perching.
- pasternak — Boris Leonidovich [bawr-is,, bohr-,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees lyi-uh-nyee-duh-vyich] /ˈbɔr ɪs,, ˈboʊr-,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis lyɪ ʌˈnyi də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1960, Russian poet, novelist, and translator: declined 1958 Nobel prize.
- patroness — a woman who protects, supports, or sponsors someone or something.
- patronise — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- patterson — Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") 1884–1948, U.S. newspaper editor and publisher.
- peasantry — peasants collectively.
- penis war — (jargon, abuse) (Or "Dick Size War", "DSW") Any argument which has degenerated into quantitative boasting of the sort "My [program|bot|etc.] is [faster|meaner|etc.] than yours!". Generally as unconstructive (and with as little emphasis on empirical proof) as men debating who has the biggest penis. The term is often used on IRC, news:alt.sysadmin.recovery, and sometimes applied to IRC botwars, because of their equally pointless nature.
- penpusher — pencil pusher.