9-letter words containing s, u, r, l
- galesburg — a city in NW Illinois.
- garrulous — excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, especially about trivial matters.
- gastrular — Of or pertaining to a gastrula.
- gastrulas — Plural form of gastrula.
- glamorous — full of glamour; charmingly or fascinatingly attractive, especially in a mysterious or magical way.
- glomerous — (obsolete) Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass.
- gold rush — a large-scale and hasty movement of people to a region where gold has been discovered, as to California in 1849.
- granulosa — (anatomy) A layer of small cells that forms the wall of an ovarian follicle.
- granulose — granular.
- granulous — consisting of grains or granules
- grossular — Relating to, or resembling, a gooseberry.
- groundsel — groundsill.
- guardless — Defenceless.
- guarulhos — a city in SE Brazil, NE of São Paulo.
- guerillas — Plural form of guerilla.
- gütersloh — a town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 95 928 (2003 est)
- gutturals — Plural form of guttural.
- hasdrubal — died 207 b.c, Carthaginian general (brother of Hannibal).
- heraclius — a.d. 575?–641, Byzantine emperor 610–641.
- hilarious — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- hilversum — a city in central Netherlands.
- hourglass — an instrument for measuring time, consisting of two bulbs of glass joined by a narrow passage through which a quantity of sand or mercury runs in just an hour.
- housecarl — a member of the household troops or bodyguard of a Danish or early English king or noble.
- housegirl — A young woman employed to do housework.
- humorless — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- hydraulus — a pipe organ of ancient Greece and Rome using water pressure to maintain the air supply.
- inclosure — enclosure.
- insularly — of or relating to an island or islands: insular possessions.
- insulator — Electricity. a material of such low conductivity that the flow of current through it is negligible. insulating material, often glass or porcelain, in a unit form designed so as to support a charged conductor and electrically isolate it.
- insurable — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- jerusalem — a republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean: formed as a Jewish state May 1948. 7984 sq. mi. (20,679 sq. km). Capital: Jerusalem.
- jongleurs — Plural form of jongleur.
- karlsruhe — a city in SW Germany: capital of the former state of Baden.
- kerplunks — Plural form of kerplunk.
- kiss curl — lock of hair curled on forehead
- knucklers — Plural form of knuckler.
- laborious — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
- labourers — Plural form of labourer.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- labourist — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
- labourous — Obsolete form of laborious.
- laburnums — any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, especially L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum.
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- landsturm — a general draft of people in time of war.
- langrenus — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 85 miles (135 km) in diameter.
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of larceny.
- larkspurs — Plural form of larkspur.
- laughters — the action or sound of laughing.