9-letter words containing s, e, r, u
- burdenous — burdensome
- burgesses — Anthony, 1917–93, English novelist and critic.
- burlesque — A burlesque is a performance or a piece of writing that makes fun of something by copying it in an exaggerated way. You can also use burlesque to refer to a situation in real life that is like this.
- burnished — You can describe something as burnished when it is bright or smooth.
- burnsides — thick side whiskers worn with a moustache and clean-shaven chin
- burrstone — buhrstone
- burst edo — Burst Extended Data Out DRAM
- bus error — (processor) A fatal failure in the execution of a machine language instruction resulting from the processor detecting an anomalous condition on its bus. Such conditions include invalid address alignment (accessing a multi-byte number at an odd address), accessing a physical address that does not correspond to any device, or some other device-specific hardware error. A bus error triggers a processor-level exception which Unix translates into a "SIGBUS" signal which, if not caught, will terminate the current process.
- bush wren — a wren, Xenicus longipes, occurring in New Zealand: family Xenicidae
- butcher's — a look
- buteshire — (until 1975) a county of SW Scotland, consisting of islands in the Firth of Clyde and Kilbrannan Sound: formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now part of Argyll and Bute council area
- cancerous — Cancerous cells or growths are cells or growths that are the result of cancer.
- cankerous — having cankers
- capturers — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- carousels — A merry-go-round.
- carrousel — carousel
- caruncles — Plural form of caruncle.
- castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
- causeries — Plural form of causerie.
- cauteries — Plural form of cautery.
- cauterise — to burn with a hot iron, electric current, fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes; treat with a cautery.
- cauterism — the application of burning, searing, or cautery
- cavernous — A cavernous room or building is very large inside, and so it reminds you of a cave.
- ceintures — cincture (defs 1, 2).
- cellarous — of, relating to or resembling a cellar
- censuring — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- centaurus — a conspicuous extensive constellation in the S hemisphere, close to the Southern Cross, that contains two first magnitude stars, Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, and the globular cluster Omega Centauri
- centuries — Plural form of century.
- ceraceous — waxlike or waxy
- cerastium — any of a genus of plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae
- ceratodus — any of various extinct lungfish constituting the genus Ceratodus, common in Cretaceous and Triassic times
- cerussite — a usually white mineral, found in veins. It is a source of lead. Composition: lead carbonate. Formula: PbCO3. Crystal structure: orthorhombic
- chargeous — (obsolete) burdensome.
- charmeuse — a lightweight fabric with a satin-like finish
- chasseurs — Plural form of chasseur.
- chaussure — a term for any type of footwear
- chorussed — Simple past tense and past participle of chorus.
- cinctures — Plural form of cincture.
- cinderous — a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- cinereous — of a greyish colour
- claqueurs — Plural form of claqueur.
- clearchus — died 401? b.c.; Spartan general
- close-run — If you describe something such as a race or contest as a close-run thing, you mean that it was only won by a very small amount.
- clustered — If people or things are clustered somewhere, there is a group of them close together there.
- coiffures — Plural form of coiffure.
- coinsurer — A coinsurer is a person or company whose policy covers the same risk as that of another person or company, and shares the loss.
- coinsures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coinsure.
- colourise — (UK) Alternative form of colorize (to add colour to).
- commuters — Plural form of commuter.
- composure — Composure is the appearance or feeling of calm and the ability to control your feelings.