9-letter words containing s, e, r, u
- scuppered — Military. to overwhelm; surprise and destroy, disable, or massacre.
- sea purse — the horny egg case of certain rays and sharks.
- sea route — a route followed by ships
- sea trout — any of various species of trout inhabiting salt water, as the salmon trout, Salmo trutta.
- secateurs — scissors or shears, especially pruning shears.
- secularly — of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.
- securable — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- securance — the act or process of securing
- securicor — a well-known security company which transports money between shops, banks etc; it is also involved in prison management
- securitan — a person believing they are secure
- seigneury — the domain of a seigneur.
- self-rule — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
- semicured — partly cured or preserved
- semigroup — an algebraic system closed under an associative binary operation.
- semilunar — shaped like a half-moon; crescent.
- semiround — having one surface that is round and another that is flat.
- semirural — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
- semitruck — tractor-trailer.
- semiurban — of, relating to, or designating a city or town.
- sensorium — a part of the brain or the brain itself regarded as the seat of sensation.
- separatum — a reprint of an article separately from the magazine, journal, or book in which it was originally published; an offprint
- septarium — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- sepulcher — a tomb, grave, or burial place.
- sepulchre — to place in a sepulcher; bury.
- sepulture — the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.
- sequencer — a device for the automatic determination or regulation of a sequence.
- sequester — to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.
- sequestra — a fragment of bone that has become necrotic as a result of disease or injury and has separated from the normal bone structure.
- sergius i — died a.d. 701, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 687–701.
- sericeous — silky.
- seriously — in a serious manner: He shook his head seriously.
- serogroup — a group of bacteria with a common antigen
- serpukhov — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
- serpulite — a fossilized calcareous tube of a serpula
- serrulate — finely or minutely serrate, as a leaf.
- sertorius — Quintus [kwin-tuh s] /ˈkwɪn təs/ (Show IPA), died 72 b.c, Roman general and statesman.
- serve out — dish up, distribute: food
- servitude — slavery or bondage of any kind: political or intellectual servitude.
- set scrum — the act or method of restarting play after an infringement, called by the referee, when the two opposing packs of forwards group together with heads down and arms interlocked and push to gain ground while the scrum half throws the ball in and the hookers attempt to scoop it out to their own team
- severinus — died a.d. 640, pope 640.
- sextarius — an ancient Roman measurement for volume
- shamateur — a sportsperson who is officially an amateur but accepts payment
- share out — distribute fairly
- sheep-run — a large property for raising sheep
- shelburne — William Petty Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, William Petty Fizmaurice Lansdowne.
- shoebrush — a brush used in polishing shoes.
- shore bug — any of various small, predaceous hemipterous insects of the family Saldidae, some of which are burrowers, commonly occurring along grassy shores of ponds, streams, brackish lakes, and seacoasts.
- showerful — abundant
- shrubbery — a planting of shrubs: He hit the croquet ball into the shrubbery.
- shrubless — devoid of shrubs