9-letter words containing s, e, r, u
- shuddered — to tremble with a sudden convulsive movement, as from horror, fear, or cold.
- shunpiker — a driver who takes a side road to avoid paying a turnpike toll
- shuttered — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- sicknurse — someone who nurses a sick person
- side curl — earlock.
- side drum — snare drum.
- sideburns — If a man has sideburns, he has a strip of hair growing down the side of each cheek.
- signature — a person's name, or a mark representing it, as signed personally or by deputy, as in subscribing a letter or other document.
- signeurie — seniority
- silverius — Saint, died a.d. 537, pope 536–37.
- simulacre — simulacrum.
- siqueiros — David Alfaro [dah-veeth ahl-fah-raw] /dɑˈvið ɑlˈfɑ rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1974, Mexican painter.
- sit under — to be seated on the right of (the player)
- slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- slum area — an area of a city filled with slums
- slumbered — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- slut-tier — of, resembling, or characteristic of a slut: slutty behavior.
- sobriquet — a nickname.
- sodbuster — a farmer who works the soil.
- sojourner — a temporary stay: during his sojourn in Paris.
- solutizer — any admixture to a substance for promoting or increasing its solubility or that of one or more of its components.
- solutrean — Archaeology. of or designating an Upper Paleolithic European culture c18,000–16,000 b.c., characterized by the making of stone projectile points and low-relief stone sculptures.
- sorcerous — of the nature of or involving sorcery.
- soubrette — a maidservant or lady's maid in a play, opera, or the like, especially one displaying coquetry, pertness, and a tendency to engage in intrigue.
- soufriere — Also, La Soufrière. a volcano in the West Indies, on St. Vincent island. 4048 feet (1234 meters).
- sourberry — lemonade berry.
- sourceful — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- souteneur — a pimp
- southerly — a wind that blows from the south.
- spear gun — a device for shooting a barbed missile under water, usually by means of gas under pressure, a strong rubber band, or a powerful spring.
- spelunker — a person who explores caves, especially as a hobby.
- spirituel — showing or having a refined and graceful mind or wit.
- splendour — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- spluttery — tending to splutter: spluttery fire sparks.
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- spruce up — trim in dress or appearance; neat; smart; dapper.
- spruce-up — an act of cleaning up, refurbishing, renovating, or the like.
- spur gear — a gear having straight teeth cut on the rim parallel to the axis of rotation.
- squadrone — a former Scottish political party, active in the last parliament of Scotland before the Act of Union, in the early 18th century
- square go — a fair fight between two individuals
- square up — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- squarrose — denoting any rough or ragged surface.
- squeakery — a squeaking quality, manner, or action
- squiredom — the squirearchy.
- squirmier — characterized by squirming.
- squirrely — eccentric; flighty.
- stare out — If you stare someone out, you look steadily into their eyes for such a long time that they feel that they have to turn their eyes away from you.
- starquake — a rapid change in the mass distribution or shape of a pulsar, resulting in a fluctuation of the pulsar's pulse rate or radiation intensity.
- state-run — controlled by the government
- stauncher — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.