9-letter words containing s, t, r, u
- saleratus — sodium bicarbonate used in cookery; baking soda.
- salubrity — favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.
- saluretic — of or relating to a substance that promotes renal excretion of sodium and chloride ions.
- sanctuary — a sacred or holy place.
- sandhurst — a village in S England, near Reading, W of London: military college.
- sarmentum — a slender running stem; runner.
- sartorius — a long, flat, narrow muscle extending obliquely from the front of the hip to the inner side of the tibia, assisting in bending the hip or knee joint and in rotating the thigh outward: the longest muscle in humans.
- satu-mare — a city in NW Romania.
- saturable — capable of being saturated.
- saturated — saturated.
- saturater — a person or thing that saturates.
- saturator — a person or thing that saturates.
- saturdays — on Saturdays: Saturdays we go to the movies.
- saturnian — of or relating to the planet Saturn.
- saturniid — any of several large, brightly colored moths of the family Saturniidae, comprising the giant silkworm moths.
- saturnine — sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn.
- saturnism — lead poisoning (def 1b).
- saturnist — a dull, gloomy, or saturnine person thought to be born under the influence of Saturn
- sauntered — to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll: sauntering through the woods.
- sauternes — a semisweet white wine of California, commonly sold as a jug wine.
- schmutter — cloth or clothing
- 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
- scout car — a fast, lightly-armored military vehicle equipped with guns and used chiefly for reconnaissance.
- scouthery — scorching
- scrapegut — a fiddle player
- screw nut — a nut threaded to receive a screw.
- scripture — Often, Scriptures. Also called Holy Scripture, Holy Scriptures. the sacred writings of the Old or New Testaments or both together.
- scrutable — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
- scrutator — a person who investigates.
- scrutoire — writing desk (def 1).
- sculpture — the art of carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions, as in relief, intaglio, or in the round.
- scut work — work that is regarded as tedious and routine or menial
- scutiform — being in the shape of a shield; shield-shaped.
- sea route — a route followed by ships
- sea trout — any of various species of trout inhabiting salt water, as the salmon trout, Salmo trutta.
- secateurs — scissors or shears, especially pruning shears.
- securitan — a person believing they are secure
- semitruck — tractor-trailer.
- separatum — a reprint of an article separately from the magazine, journal, or book in which it was originally published; an offprint
- septarium — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- sepulture — the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.
- sequester — to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.
- sequestra — a fragment of bone that has become necrotic as a result of disease or injury and has separated from the normal bone structure.
- serpulite — a fossilized calcareous tube of a serpula
- serrulate — finely or minutely serrate, as a leaf.
- sertorius — Quintus [kwin-tuh s] /ˈkwɪn təs/ (Show IPA), died 72 b.c, Roman general and statesman.
- serve out — dish up, distribute: food
- servitude — slavery or bondage of any kind: political or intellectual servitude.
- set scrum — the act or method of restarting play after an infringement, called by the referee, when the two opposing packs of forwards group together with heads down and arms interlocked and push to gain ground while the scrum half throws the ball in and the hookers attempt to scoop it out to their own team