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

  • prelusory — introductory.
  • prescious — prescient
  • 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.
  • prisonous — resembling a prison
  • proconsul — an African subgenus of Dryopithecus that lived 17–20 million years ago and is possibly ancestral to modern hominoids.
  • procopius — a.d. c490–c562, Greek historian.
  • procuress — a woman who procures prostitutes.
  • producers — a person who produces.
  • proestrus — the period immediately preceding estrus.
  • profusely — spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant (often followed by in): profuse praise.
  • profusion — abundance; abundant quantity.
  • profusive — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
  • prolapsus — prolapse.
  • prolusion — a preliminary written article.
  • prolusory — serving for prolusion.
  • promuscis — the proboscis of some insects
  • propulsor — something that provides propulsion; a propeller
  • 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.
  • proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
  • proudness — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • pulverous — consisting of tiny particles
  • purposely — intentionally; deliberately: He tripped me purposely.
  • purposing — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
  • purposive — having, showing, or acting with a purpose, intention, or design.
  • push over — shove to the ground
  • quadroons — Plural form of quadroon.
  • quadwords — Plural form of quadword.
  • quaestors — Plural form of quaestor.
  • 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.
  • querulous — full of complaints; complaining.
  • 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:
  • rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
  • rancorous — full of or showing rancor.
  • rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
  • rapturous — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
  • raucously — harsh; strident; grating: raucous voices; raucous laughter.
  • re-arouse — to arouse (someone or something) again
  • reclusion — the condition or life of a recluse.
  • reclusory — a recluse's dwelling or cell
  • reconsult — to consult (someone or something) again
  • recursion — the process of defining a function or calculating a number by the repeated application of an algorithm.
  • religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
  • renourish — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
  • reposeful — full of or suggesting repose; calm; quiet.
  • repulsion — the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
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