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9-letter words containing s, t, r, u

  • petronius — Gaius (ˈɡaɪəs), known as Petronius Arbiter. died 66 ad, Roman satirist, supposed author of the Satyricon, a picaresque account of the licentiousness of contemporary society
  • 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.
  • picturise — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
  • pirithoüs — a prince of the Lapiths, who accomplished many great deeds with his friend Theseus
  • pistorius — Oscar (Leonard Carl), born 1986, South African sprinter in races for below-the-knee amputees; winner of six Paralympic gold medals (2004–2012); found guilty of the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (1983–2013)
  • pittsburg — a city in W California.
  • plaustral — relating to wagons
  • pleuritis — an instance of pleurisy
  • 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.
  • port dues — the charge for the use of a port
  • porthouse — a company that produces port
  • posturing — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
  • posturise — to posture; pose.
  • posturize — to posture; pose.
  • pour test — any test for determining the pour point of a substance.
  • preadjust — that aids in preadjusting, that makes later adjusting easier by advance preparation
  • prescutum — the anterior dorsal sclerite of a thoracic segment of an insect.
  • presummit — of the period prior to a summit
  • pretarsus — the terminal outgrowth of the tarsus of an arthropod.
  • pretorius — Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus [ahn-drees vil-hel-moo s yah-kaw-boo s] /ˈɑn dris vɪlˈhɛl mʊs yɑˈkɔ bʊs/ (Show IPA), 1799–1853, and his son Marthinus Wessels [mahr-tee-noo s ves-uh ls] /mɑrˈti nʊs ˈvɛs əls/ (Show IPA) 1819–1901, Boer soldiers and statesmen in South Africa.
  • proestrus — the period immediately preceding estrus.
  • prosateur — a person who writes prose, especially as a livelihood.
  • 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.
  • proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
  • proustite — a mineral, silver arsenic sulfide, Ag 3 AsS 3 , occurring in scarlet crystals and masses: a minor ore of silver; ruby silver.
  • 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.
  • questrist — one who quests
  • 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:
  • quipsters — Plural form of quipster.
  • quirkiest — Superlative form of quirky.
  • quitrents — Plural form of quitrent.
  • rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
  • rapturist — a person who goes into raptures, an enthusiast
  • rapturous — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
  • re-adjust — to adjust again or anew; rearrange.
  • reconsult — to consult (someone or something) again
  • red stuff — a compound of oil and sesquioxide of iron used for polishing brass, steel, silver, etc.; crocus or rouge.
  • reductase — any enzyme acting as a reducing agent.
  • rehnquist — William H(ubbs) [huhbz] /hʌbz/ (Show IPA), 1924–2005, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1972–86; chief justice 1986–2005.
  • rejustify — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
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