9-letter words containing s, u, r, l
- menstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- meursault — a dry, white Burgundy wine produced in the district around Meursault in E France.
- miscolour — (transitive) To give a wrong colour to.
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- misruling — Present participle of misrule.
- mule-ears — any of several composite plants of the genus Wyethia, of the western U.S., having large leaves and broad flower heads with yellow rays.
- mulierose — (obsolete) Fond of women.
- multirisk — (of insurance) covering several risks
- multiuser — (of a computer system) able to be used by a number of people simultaneously.
- muralists — Plural form of muralist.
- murrelets — Plural form of murrelet.
- nailbrush — a small brush with stiff bristles, used to clean the fingernails.
- nebuliser — Alternative spelling of nebulizer.
- nelspruit — a city in NE South Africa, the capital of Mpumalanga province on the Crocodile River: trading and agricultural centre, esp for fruit, with a growing tourist trade. Pop: 21 541 (2001)
- nervously — highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
- ngultrums — Plural form of ngultrum.
- nurselike — resembling or having the characteristics of a nurse
- nurseling — an infant, child, or young animal being nursed or being cared for by a nurse.
- nurslings — Plural form of nursling.
- obscurely — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- ocularist — a person who makes artificial eyes
- odorously — odoriferous.
- odourless — Having no odour.
- onerously — In an onerous manner.
- oraculous — resembling an oracle
- ourselves — Used as the object of a verb or preposition when this is the same as the subject of the clause and the subject is the speaker and one or more other people considered together.
- outersole — outsole.
- outliners — Plural form of outliner.
- outlustre — (poetic, transitive) To surpass in brightness or lustre; to outshine.
- overflush — too flush
- overlusty — too lusty
- pasquiler — a person who lampoons or pasquinades; a satirist
- patroclus — Classical Mythology. a friend of Achilles, who was slain by Hector at Troy.
- perusable — having the ability to be perused
- pharsalus — an ancient city in central Greece, in Thessaly: site of Caesar's victory over Pompey 48 b.c.
- pillsbury — Charles Alfred, 1842–99, U.S. businessman.
- plaustral — relating to wagons
- pleasured — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pleasurer — a person who seeks pleasure
- pleasures — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pleuritis — an instance of pleurisy
- pluralism — 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.
- 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.
- polydorus — flourished 1st century b.c, Greek sculptor who, with Agesander and Athenodorus, carved the Laocoön group.
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- prelusion — a prelude.
- prelusive — introductory.
- prelusory — introductory.
- proconsul — an African subgenus of Dryopithecus that lived 17–20 million years ago and is possibly ancestral to modern hominoids.
- profusely — spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant (often followed by in): profuse praise.