9-letter words containing s, e, r, u
- assurance — If you give someone an assurance that something is true or will happen, you say that it is definitely true or will definitely happen, in order to make them feel less worried.
- assuredly — If something is assuredly true, it is definitely true.
- assurgent — (of leaves, stems, etc) curving or growing upwards; rising
- at source — at the point of origin
- auditress — a female auditor
- auriscope — a medical instrument for examining the external ear
- 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.
- 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.
- autospore — a nonmotile algal spore that develops adult characteristics before being released
- auxospore — a diatom cell before its silicaceous cell wall is formed
- 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.
- balusters — Plural form of baluster.
- barbecues — Plural form of barbecue.
- barbeques — Plural form of barbeque.
- barklouse — any of numerous insects of the order Psocoptera that live on the bark of trees and other plants.
- barouches — Plural form of barouche.
- beaumaris — a resort in N Wales, on the island of Anglesey: 13th-century castle. Pop: 1513 (2001)
- beer bust — an occasion on which a lot of beer is drunk
- beerhouse — an establishment licensed to serve only liquors fermented from malt, as beer, ale, or the like.
- berzelius — Baron Jöns Jakob (ˈjœns ˈjɑːkɔp). 1779–1848, Swedish chemist, who invented the present system of chemical symbols and formulas, discovered several elements, and determined the atomic and molecular weight of many substances
- bev curls — long locks of hair, considered to be typical of a certain kind of unfashionable male
- bierstube — a tavern or café offering German or German-style atmosphere, décor, food, beer, etc.
- birdhouse — a small shelter or box for birds to nest in
- bluecurls — a name for the plant Trichostema dichotomum
- bluegrass — Bluegrass is a style of fast folk music that began in the Southern United States.
- blustered — to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
- bourasque — a tempest
- bourgeois — If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle-class people.
- brewhouse — a brewery
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
- brushfire — a fire in bushes and scrub
- brushless — (of a motor) not using physical contacts for the communicator
- brusquely — abrupt in manner; blunt; rough: A brusque welcome greeted his unexpected return.
- bruteness — the quality of being brutish or savage
- bruxelles — Brussels
- bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
- bucuresti — Bucharest
- buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone
- bum steer — false or misleading information or advice
- 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
- buprestid — any beetle of the mainly tropical family Buprestidae, the adults of which are brilliantly coloured and the larvae of which bore into and cause damage to trees, roots, etc