9-letter words containing s, i, l, u, r
- frivilous — Misspelling of frivolous.
- frivolous — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
- frugalist — A person who acts frugally.
- fruitless — useless; unproductive; without results or success: a fruitless search for the missing treasure.
- furiously — full of fury, violent passion, or rage; extremely angry; enraged: He was furious about the accident.
- fusiliers — Plural form of fusilier.
- guerillas — Plural form of guerilla.
- heraclius — a.d. 575?–641, Byzantine emperor 610–641.
- hilarious — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- hilversum — a city in central Netherlands.
- housegirl — A young woman employed to do housework.
- inclosure — enclosure.
- insularly — of or relating to an island or islands: insular possessions.
- insulator — Electricity. a material of such low conductivity that the flow of current through it is negligible. insulating material, often glass or porcelain, in a unit form designed so as to support a charged conductor and electrically isolate it.
- insurable — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- kiss curl — lock of hair curled on forehead
- laborious — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- labourist — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
- laundries — Plural form of laundry.
- leisurely — acting, proceeding, or done without haste; unhurried; deliberate: a leisurely conversation.
- licensure — the granting of licenses, especially to engage in professional practice.
- ligatures — Plural form of ligature.
- ligustrum — any of various shrubs or trees belonging to the genus Ligustrum, of the olive family, comprising the privets.
- lincrusta — a wallpaper having a hard embossed surface
- liquorish — fond of and eager for choice food.
- literatus — singular of literati.
- liturgics — the science or art of conducting public worship.
- liturgies — Plural form of liturgy.
- liturgist — an authority on liturgies.
- louisburg — a seaport on SE Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in SE Canada: French fortress captured by British 1745, 1758.
- lubricous — (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery.
- lucretius — (Titus Lucretius Carus) 97?–54 b.c, Roman poet and philosopher.
- ludicrous — causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable: a ludicrous lack of efficiency.
- lumbricus — a member of a genus of worms of the same name, the most common of which is the common earth worm, Lumbricus terrestris
- lunisolar — pertaining to or based upon the relations or joint action of the moon and the sun.
- luridness — The property of being lurid.
- lustering — the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss: the luster of satin.
- lustrical — Pertaining to, or used for, purification.
- lustrious — Fantastic; amazing; splendid.
- luxurious — characterized by luxury; ministering or conducive to luxury: a luxurious hotel.
- malarious — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- margulies — Donald. born 1955, US playwright; plays include The Loman Family Picnic (1989) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends (1999)
- marsupial — any viviparous, nonplacental mammal of the order Marsupialia, comprising the opossums, kangaroos, wombats, and bandicoots, the females of most species having a marsupium containing the mammary glands and serving as a receptacle for the young.
- miscolour — (transitive) To give a wrong colour to.
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- misruling — Present participle of misrule.
- mulierose — (obsolete) Fond of women.
- multirisk — (of insurance) covering several risks
- multiuser — (of a computer system) able to be used by a number of people simultaneously.