9-letter words containing s, e, r, u
- presidium — (in the Soviet Union and other Communist countries) an administrative committee, usually permanent and governmental, acting when its parent body is in recess but exercising full powers: the presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
- press run — the number of copies (of a book, newspaper, etc) printed during a continuous printing session
- pressburg — German name of Bratislava.
- pressured — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- presuming — presumptuous.
- presummit — of the period prior to a summit
- presurvey — to take a general or comprehensive view of or appraise, as a situation, area of study, etc.
- pretarsus — the terminal outgrowth of the tarsus of an arthropod.
- pretorius — Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus [ahn-drees vil-hel-moo s yah-kaw-boo s] /ˈɑn dris vɪlˈhɛl mʊs yɑˈkɔ bʊs/ (Show IPA), 1799–1853, and his son Marthinus Wessels [mahr-tee-noo s ves-uh ls] /mɑrˈti nʊs ˈvɛs əls/ (Show IPA) 1819–1901, Boer soldiers and statesmen in South Africa.
- procuress — a woman who procures prostitutes.
- producers — a person who produces.
- proestrus — the period immediately preceding estrus.
- profusely — spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant (often followed by in): profuse praise.
- profusive — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- prosateur — a person who writes prose, especially as a livelihood.
- prosecute — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
- proudness — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
- proustite — a mineral, silver arsenic sulfide, Ag 3 AsS 3 , occurring in scarlet crystals and masses: a minor ore of silver; ruby silver.
- prussiate — a ferricyanide or ferrocyanide.
- pterosaur — any flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having the outside digit of the forelimb greatly elongated and supporting a wing membrane.
- publisher — a person or company whose business is the publishing of books, periodicals, engravings, computer software, etc.
- puerilism — childishness in the behavior of an adult.
- pulverise — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pulverous — consisting of tiny particles
- purchased — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- purchaser — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- pure lisp — A purely functional language derived from Lisp by excluding any feature which causes side-effects.
- purposely — intentionally; deliberately: He tripped me purposely.
- purposive — having, showing, or acting with a purpose, intention, or design.
- purselike — resembling a purse
- pursiness — the state of being pursy
- pursuable — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- pursuance — the following or carrying out of some plan, course, injunction, or the like.
- push over — shove to the ground
- quadrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quadrate.
- quaestors — Plural form of quaestor.
- quagmires — Plural form of quagmire.
- quakeress — a woman or girl who is a Quaker.
- quakerism — the beliefs, principles, and practices of Quakers.
- quarriers — Plural form of quarrier.
- quarterns — Plural form of quartern.
- quartiles — Plural form of quartile.
- quartzose — one of the commonest minerals, silicon dioxide, SiO 2 , having many varieties that differ in color, luster, etc., and occurring either in masses (as agate, bloodstone, chalcedony, jasper, etc.) or in crystals (as rock crystal, amethyst, citrine, etc.): the chief constituent of sand and sandstone, and an important constituent of many other rocks. It is piezoelectric and used to control the frequencies of radio transmitters.
- queerness — strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
- quenchers — Plural form of quencher.
- querulous — full of complaints; complaining.
- questrist — one who quests
- quipsters — Plural form of quipster.
- quirkiest — Superlative form of quirky.