9-letter words containing s, l, a, u
- balusters — Plural form of baluster.
- barfulous — /bar'fyoo-l*s/ (Or "barfucious", /bar-fyoo-sh*s/) Said of something that would make anyone barf, if only for aesthetic reasons.
- barklouse — any of numerous insects of the order Psocoptera that live on the bark of trees and other plants.
- bashfully — In a bashful manner.
- basketful — a sufficient quantity to fill a basket; the amount contained in a basket.
- battlebus — the coach that transports politicians and their advisers round the country during an election campaign
- beadflush — (of paneling) having panels flush with their stiles and rails and surrounded with a flush bead.
- bisulcate — marked by two grooves
- bisulfate — an acid sulfate containing the monovalent negative radical HSO4
- blast out — If music or noise is blasting out, loud music or noise is being produced.
- blue laws — a number of repressive puritanical laws of the colonial period, forbidding any secular activity on Sundays
- blue lias — a type of rock composed of alternating layers of bluish shale or clay and grey argillaceous limestone
- blue mass — Also called mercury mass. a preparation of metallic mercury and other ingredients, used for making blue pills.
- bluegrass — Bluegrass is a style of fast folk music that began in the Southern United States.
- bluejeans — jeans made of blue denim
- brushland — an area of land characterized by patchy shrubs and bushes
- brutalism — an austere style of architecture characterized by emphasis on such structural materials as undressed concrete and unconcealed service pipes
- bud scale — one of the hard protective sometimes hairy or resinous specialized leaves surrounding the buds of certain plants, such as the rhododendron
- bull bars — a large protective metal grille on the front of some vehicles, esp four-wheel-drive vehicles
- bullsnake — an American burrowing snake
- bursarial — of, relating to, or paid by a bursar or bursary
- bushelman — a person who alters or repairs garments; busheler.
- calabogus — a mixed drink containing rum, spruce beer, and molasses
- caladiums — Plural form of caladium.
- calcaneus — the largest tarsal bone, forming the heel in man
- calculose — calculous
- calculous — of or suffering from a calculus
- caliculus — calyculus (def 1).
- callippus — flourished 4th century b.c, Greek astronomer.
- calloused — A foot or hand that is calloused is covered in calluses.
- callouses — made hard; hardened.
- callously — made hard; hardened.
- callusing — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- calumnies — Plural form of calumny.
- calyculus — a small, cuplike part, as a taste bud, or a cuplike depression, as in a coral skeleton
- cancellus — (in an early Christian basilica) one of a row of bars separating the clergy and sometimes the choir from the congregation.
- canulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canulate.
- capsulary — Archaic form of capsular.
- capsulate — within or formed into a capsule
- capsulise — Alt form capsulize.
- capsulize — to state (information) in a highly condensed form
- carousals — Plural form of carousal.
- carousels — A merry-go-round.
- carrousel — carousel
- caruncles — Plural form of caruncle.
- cassoulet — a stew originating from France, made from haricot beans and goose, duck, pork, etc
- castellum — a small fort, normally used as a watch tower
- casualise — make (a regular employee) into a casual worker
- casualism — the doctrine that the existence and occurrence of everything is controlled by chance
- casualize — If a business casualizes its employees or casualizes their labour, it replaces employees with permanent contracts and full rights with employees with temporary contracts and few rights.