9-letter words containing s, t, a, u, r
- neustrian — the W part of the Frankish kingdom, corresponding roughly to N and NW France.
- nosferatu — Alternative form of Nosferatu.
- nothosaur — An extinct semiaquatic carnivorous reptile of the Triassic period, having a slender body and long neck, related to the plesiosaurs.
- numerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of numerate.
- nuristani — Kafir (def 1).
- nut grass — either of two sedges, Cyperus rotundus or C. esculentus, that have small, nutlike tubers and are often troublesome weeds.
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
- ocularist — a person who makes artificial eyes
- out-years — the fiscal year after a year covered by a budget; any year beyond the budget year for which projections of spending are made.
- outboards — Plural form of outboard.
- outbreaks — Plural form of outbreak.
- outmaster — to surpass
- outparish — a parish located outside the boundaries of or at a distance from a town or city; an outlying parish.
- outraised — Simple past tense and past participle of outraise.
- outreason — (transitive) To surpass in reasoning; to reason better than.
- outsavour — to exceed in savouring
- 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.
- outsmarts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outsmart.
- outspread — spread out; stretched out: outspread arms.
- outstared — Simple past tense and past participle of outstare.
- outstrain — to strain or stretch too much
- outstream — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- outswears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outswear.
- pankhurst — Christabel Harriette, 1880–1958, English suffragist leader (daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst).
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- pasturage — pasture.
- pasturing — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- patroclus — Classical Mythology. a friend of Achilles, who was slain by Hector at Troy.
- perfusate — a fluid pumped or flowing through an organ or tissue.
- peripatus — any of a genus of wormlike arthropods having a segmented body and short unjointed limbs: belonging to the phylum Onychophora
- pertusate — stabbed or perforated at the top
- phytosaur — any armored, semiaquatic reptile of the extinct order Phytosauria, of the Mesozoic Era, resembling the crocodile but unrelated, having the nostrils high on the snout and with well-developed hind limbs suggestive of bipedal ancestors.
- plaustral — relating to wagons
- pluralist — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- preadjust — that aids in preadjusting, that makes later adjusting easier by advance preparation
- pretarsus — the terminal outgrowth of the tarsus of an arthropod.
- prosateur — a person who writes prose, especially as a livelihood.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- prussiate — a ferricyanide or ferrocyanide.
- pterosaur — any flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having the outside digit of the forelimb greatly elongated and supporting a wing membrane.
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- quadrants — Plural form of quadrant.
- quadrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quadrate.
- quadratus — Any of several roughly square or rectangular muscles, e.g., in the abdomen, thigh, and eye socket.
- quaestors — Plural form of quaestor.
- quarterns — Plural form of quartern.
- quartiles — Plural form of quartile.
- quartzose — one of the commonest minerals, silicon dioxide, SiO 2 , having many varieties that differ in color, luster, etc., and occurring either in masses (as agate, bloodstone, chalcedony, jasper, etc.) or in crystals (as rock crystal, amethyst, citrine, etc.): the chief constituent of sand and sandstone, and an important constituent of many other rocks. It is piezoelectric and used to control the frequencies of radio transmitters.
- quatrains — Plural form of quatrain.