9-letter words containing s, o, r
- atherosis — (pathology) atheroma.
- atomizers — Plural form of atomizer.
- atrocious — If you describe something as atrocious, you are emphasizing that its quality is very bad.
- atrophies — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- attolaser — a high-power laser capable of producing pulses with a duration measured in attoseconds
- attorneys — Plural form of attorney.
- attornies — Plural form of attorny.
- auriscope — a medical instrument for examining the external ear
- auriscopy — (medicine) Examination of the ear using an auriscope.
- authoress — An authoress is a female author. Many female writers object to this word, and prefer to be called authors.
- authorise — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- authorish — like or similar to an author
- authorism — the state or condition of being author
- autocrats — Plural form of autocrat.
- autocross — a form of motor sport in which cars race over a half-mile circuit of rough grass
- autogiros — Plural form of autogiro.
- autospore — a nonmotile algal spore that develops adult characteristics before being released
- autostart — (transitive, intransitive, computing) To start automatically.
- auxospore — a diatom cell before its silicaceous cell wall is formed
- averroism — the teachings of Averroës
- aversions — Plural form of aversion.
- ayr stone — a fine-grained stone used for polishing marble and as a whetstone.
- bachelors — Plural form of bachelor.
- backcross — to mate (a hybrid of the first generation) with one of its parents
- backdrops — Plural form of backdrop.
- backroads — Plural form of backroad.
- backrooms — Plural form of backroom.
- backshore — the area of a beach above the usual high tide mark
- backstory — the events which take place before, and which help to bring about, the events portrayed in a film
- backsword — a person who uses the backsword
- backwords — Plural form of backword.
- balloters — Plural form of balloter.
- ballrooms — Plural form of ballroom.
- balmorals — Plural form of balmoral.
- bankrolls — Plural form of bankroll.
- bannerols — Plural form of bannerol.
- bar joist — a welded steel joist having an open web consisting of a single bent bar running in a zigzag pattern between horizontal upper and lower chords.
- bar-spoon — a long-handled spoon, usually having the capacity of a teaspoon, used for mixing or measuring ingredients for alcoholic drinks.
- bar-stool — a high backless seat found chiefly in bars, at the serving counter
- barachois — (in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada) a shallow lagoon formed by a sand bar
- barbarous — If you describe something as barbarous, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is rough and uncivilized.
- barfulous — /bar'fyoo-l*s/ (Or "barfucious", /bar-fyoo-sh*s/) Said of something that would make anyone barf, if only for aesthetic reasons.
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- barklouse — any of numerous insects of the order Psocoptera that live on the bark of trees and other plants.
- barnstorm — When people such as politicians or performers barnstorm, they travel around the country making speeches or giving shows.
- baroscope — any instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, esp a manometer with one side open to the atmosphere
- barotitis — inflammation of the ear caused by a change in air pressure
- barouches — Plural form of barouche.
- barperson — a person who serves in a pub: used esp in advertisements
- barrators — a person who commits barratry.