9-letter words containing s, u, p, r, a
- purchased — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- purchaser — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- pursuable — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- pursuance — the following or carrying out of some plan, course, injunction, or the like.
- push-card — punchboard.
- pushchair — A pushchair is a small chair on wheels, in which a baby or small child can sit and be wheeled around.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rap music — a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.
- rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- rapturist — a person who goes into raptures, an enthusiast
- rapturous — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- reperusal — a reading: a perusal of the current books.
- sapsucker — any of several American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus that drill holes in maple, apple, hemlock, etc., drinking the sap and eating the insects that gather there.
- scapulary — scapular1 .
- scrape up — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
- scrapegut — a fiddle player
- sea purse — the horny egg case of certain rays and sharks.
- 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.
- sharp-cut — cut so as to have a sharp edge: a tool with a sharp-cut blade.
- spar buoy — a buoy resembling a vertical log
- sparkplug — to lead, inspire, or animate something or someone.
- spartacus — died 71 b.c, Thracian slave, gladiator, and insurrectionist.
- spear gun — a device for shooting a barbed missile under water, usually by means of gas under pressure, a strong rubber band, or a powerful spring.
- spiritual — of, relating to, or consisting of spirit; incorporeal.
- spirulina — any of the blue-green algae of the genus Spirulina, sometimes added to food for its nutrient value.
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- spray gun — a device consisting of a container from which paint or other liquid is sprayed through a nozzle by air pressure from a pump.
- spun yarn — yarn produced by spinning fibers into a continuous strand.
- spur gall — a hairless and indurated area or gall on the side of a horse, caused by the irritation of a spur.
- spur gear — a gear having straight teeth cut on the rim parallel to the axis of rotation.
- spur-gall — to scrape, rub or injure (a horse) with the spur when riding
- square up — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- stroupach — a cup of tea
- subprimal — (of meat) being a cut of meat larger than a steak, roast, or other single cut but smaller than a side of beef: shipped by the packer to local markets for final cutting to reduce processing costs and to retard spoilage.
- sugar pea — snow pea.
- sugar pie — an open pie with a brown sugar filling
- sugarplum — a small sweetmeat made of sugar with various flavoring and coloring ingredients; a bonbon.
- sumptuary — pertaining to, dealing with, or regulating expense or expenditure.
- super pac — a type of PAC that has no limitations on the amount or source of donations, though it cannot contribute directly to a political campaign or party. See also PAC.
- super vga — Super Video Graphics Array
- superable — capable of being overcome; surmountable.
- superably — capable of being overcome; surmountable.
- superatom — a cluster of atoms behaving in certain ways like a single atom
- superbaby — an infant whose mental development and language acquisition are stimulated and presumably accelerated by certain teaching methods.
- superbank — a bank that owns other banks; an overarching banking organization
- superbrat — an exceptionally unpleasant or bratty person, someone who is very much a brat
- supercrat — a high-ranking bureaucrat, especially one of cabinet rank.
- superfarm — a very large farm, sometimes incorporating or coordinating a number of smaller farms
- superfast — very or extremely fast