9-letter words containing s, o, u, r, e
- showerful — abundant
- siqueiros — David Alfaro [dah-veeth ahl-fah-raw] /dɑˈvið ɑlˈfɑ rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1974, Mexican painter.
- sobriquet — a nickname.
- sodbuster — a farmer who works the soil.
- sojourner — a temporary stay: during his sojourn in Paris.
- solutizer — any admixture to a substance for promoting or increasing its solubility or that of one or more of its components.
- solutrean — Archaeology. of or designating an Upper Paleolithic European culture c18,000–16,000 b.c., characterized by the making of stone projectile points and low-relief stone sculptures.
- sorcerous — of the nature of or involving sorcery.
- soubrette — a maidservant or lady's maid in a play, opera, or the like, especially one displaying coquetry, pertness, and a tendency to engage in intrigue.
- soufriere — Also, La Soufrière. a volcano in the West Indies, on St. Vincent island. 4048 feet (1234 meters).
- sourberry — lemonade berry.
- sourceful — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- souteneur — a pimp
- southerly — a wind that blows from the south.
- splendour — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- squadrone — a former Scottish political party, active in the last parliament of Scotland before the Act of Union, in the early 18th century
- square go — a fair fight between two individuals
- squarrose — denoting any rough or ragged surface.
- squiredom — the squirearchy.
- stare out — If you stare someone out, you look steadily into their eyes for such a long time that they feel that they have to turn their eyes away from you.
- stegosaur — a plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Stegosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a heavy, bony armor and a row of bony plates along its back, and growing to a length of 20 to 40 feet (6–12 meters).
- stourhead — a Palladian mansion near Mere in Wiltshire: built (1722) for Henry Hoare; famous for its landscaped gardens laid out (1741) by Flitcroft
- strenuous — characterized by vigorous exertion, as action, efforts, life, etc.: a strenuous afternoon of hunting.
- strikeout — an out made by a batter to whom three strikes have been charged, or as recorded by the pitcher who accomplishes this.
- studhorse — a stallion kept for breeding.
- sub verbo — (used as a direction to a reference) under the word or heading. Abbreviation: s.v.
- subcortex — Anatomy, Zoology. the outer region of an organ or structure, as the outer portion of the kidney. the cerebral cortex.
- subeditor — a subordinate or junior editor.
- subereous — of the nature of or resembling cork; suberose.
- sublessor — a lease granted by one who is already a lessee of a property, as an apartment.
- subperiod — a subdivision of a time period
- subregion — a division or subdivision of a region, especially a division of a zoogeographical region.
- subrogate — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- subsector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- subserous — situated or occurring under a serous membrane.
- subsoiler — one who operates a subsoil plow.
- subwoofer — a loudspeaker component designed to reproduce only extremely low bass frequencies, generally below 125 Hz.
- succentor — a precentor's deputy.
- successor — a person or thing that succeeds or follows.
- succoured — help; relief; aid; assistance.
- sucralose — a white, crystalline powder, C 12 H 19 Cl 3 O 8 , produced synthetically from sucrose, about 600 times as sweet as sucrose but having no calories.
- sundowner — Chiefly British. an alcoholic drink taken after completing the day's work, usually at sundown.
- sunflower — any of various composite plants of the genus Helianthus, as H. annuus, having showy, yellow-rayed flower heads often 12 inches (30 cm) wide, and edible seeds that yield an oil with a wide variety of uses: the state flower of Kansas.
- sunstroke — a sudden and sometimes fatal affection due to exposure to the sun's rays or to excessive heat, marked by prostration with or without fever, convulsion, and coma.
- super-ego — Your super-ego is the part of your mind which makes you aware of what is right and wrong, and which causes you to feel guilty when you have done something wrong.
- superatom — a cluster of atoms behaving in certain ways like a single atom
- superbold — (of writing, ornamentation, styling) very or exceptionally bold or striking
- superbomb — a highly destructive bomb, especially a hydrogen bomb.
- supercoil — superhelix.