9-letter words containing s, o, u, r, c
- outscored — Simple past tense and past participle of outscore.
- outscores — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outscore.
- outscream — to scream louder than
- outsearch — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- outsource — (of a company or organization) to purchase (goods) or subcontract (services) from an outside supplier or source.
- outstruck — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- overfocus — to focus too much
- oversauce — to put too much sauce on
- parcourse — an outdoor exercise track or course, especially for joggers, equipped with a series of stations along the way where one is to stop and perform a specific exercise.
- parecious — paroicous.
- paroicous — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- patroclus — Classical Mythology. a friend of Achilles, who was slain by Hector at Troy.
- percussor — plexor.
- precursor — a person or thing that precedes, as in a job, a method, etc.; predecessor.
- prescious — prescient
- proconsul — an African subgenus of Dryopithecus that lived 17–20 million years ago and is possibly ancestral to modern hominoids.
- procopius — a.d. c490–c562, Greek historian.
- procuress — a woman who procures prostitutes.
- producers — a person who produces.
- promuscis — the proboscis of some insects
- prosecute — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
- quicksort — A sorting algorithm with O(n log n) average time complexity. One element, x of the list to be sorted is chosen and the other elements are split into those elements less than x and those greater than or equal to x. These two lists are then sorted recursively using the same algorithm until there is only one element in each list, at which point the sublists are recursively recombined in order yielding the sorted list. This can be written in Haskell:
- rancorous — full of or showing rancor.
- rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- raucously — harsh; strident; grating: raucous voices; raucous laughter.
- reclusion — the condition or life of a recluse.
- reclusory — a recluse's dwelling or cell
- reconsult — to consult (someone or something) again
- recursion — the process of defining a function or calculating a number by the repeated application of an algorithm.
- resourced — If an organization is resourced, it has all the things, such as money and materials, that it needs to function properly.
- resources — a source of supply, support, or aid, especially one that can be readily drawn upon when needed.
- rock dust — a crushed limestone sprayed on surfaces in mines to make coal dust incombustible in case of a gas explosion.
- rosaceous — belonging to the plant family Rosaceae. Compare rose family.
- roughcast — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
- rudaceous — (of conglomerate, breccia, and similar rocks) composed of coarse-grained material
- run close — to compete closely with; present a serious challenge to
- rutaceous — of or like rue.
- schomburg — Arthur Alfonso, 1874–1938, U.S. scholar and collector of books on black literature and history, born in Puerto Rico.
- scirrhous — of a hard, fibrous consistency.
- scorbutic — pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with scurvy.
- score out — to delete or cancel by marking through with a line or lines; cross out
- scoundrel — an unprincipled, dishonorable person; villain.
- scourging — a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
- scourings — dirt or refuse removed by scouring.
- scout car — a fast, lightly-armored military vehicle equipped with guns and used chiefly for reconnaissance.
- scouthery — scorching
- screw you — expressing contempt
- scrounger — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- scrub oak — any of several oaks, as Quercus ilicifolia and Q. prinoides, characterized by a scrubby manner of growth, usually found in dry, rocky soil.