9-letter words containing s, i, n, u, o
- penurious — extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
- perfusion — the act of perfusing.
- perotinus — ("Magnus Magister") fl. late 12th to early 13th century, French composer.
- pertusion — the process or act of making a hole with a stabbing or penetrating implement
- petronius — Gaius (ˈɡaɪəs), known as Petronius Arbiter. died 66 ad, Roman satirist, supposed author of the Satyricon, a picaresque account of the licentiousness of contemporary society
- pinaceous — belonging to the plant family Pinaceae.
- piousness — having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
- platinous — containing bivalent platinum.
- plutonism — the intrusion of magma and associated deep-seated processes within the earth's crust.
- poisonous — full of or containing poison: poisonous air; a poisonous substance.
- pollusion — a word used by a comic character in Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost to mean "allusion"
- posturing — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- prelusion — a prelude.
- prisonous — resembling a prison
- profusion — abundance; abundant quantity.
- prolusion — a preliminary written article.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- purposing — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- questions — Plural form of question.
- quotients — Plural form of quotient.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- reclusion — the condition or life of a recluse.
- recursion — the process of defining a function or calculating a number by the repeated application of an algorithm.
- renourish — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- repulsion — the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
- retrusion — the act of moving a tooth backward.
- revulsion — a strong feeling of repugnance, distaste, or dislike: Cruelty fills me with revulsion.
- routinism — adherence to routine.
- routinist — someone who lives by routine
- saucisson — a large and thick sausage
- sauvignon — a small blue-black grape grown primarily in the Médoc region of Bordeaux, in SW France, and highly prized in winemaking.
- scourging — a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
- scourings — dirt or refuse removed by scouring.
- seclusion — an act of secluding: the seclusion of unruly students.
- seduction — an act or instance of seducing, especially sexually.
- selenious — containing tetravalent or bivalent selenium.
- semiround — having one surface that is round and another that is flat.
- sensorium — a part of the brain or the brain itself regarded as the seat of sensation.
- shippound — a Baltic measure of weight roughly equivalent to 300-400 pounds
- shoutline — a line of text in an advertisement made prominent to catch attention
- sinuation — a winding; sinuosity.
- sinuosity — Often, sinuosities. a curve, bend, or turn: a sinuosity of the road.
- situation — manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment: The situation of the house allowed for a beautiful view.
- sloughing — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
- sniff out — detect
- soundbite — short statement, quotation
- soundings — measurements of atmospheric conditions, as made using a radiosonde or rocketsonde
- spondulix — money; cash.
- spongious — spongy or relating to a sponge