9-letter words containing s, y, r, o
- forestays — Plural form of forestay.
- forsythia — a shrub belonging to the genus Forsythia, of the olive family, native to China and southeastern Europe, species of which are cultivated for their showy yellow flowers, which blossom on the bare branches in early spring.
- forty-six — a cardinal number, 40 plus 6.
- four-eyes — Slang: Usually Disparaging. a person who wears eyeglasses (sometimes used facetiously).
- furiosity — Lb obsolete furiousness; fury.
- furiously — full of fury, violent passion, or rage; extremely angry; enraged: He was furious about the accident.
- gargoyles — Plural form of gargoyle.
- gasometry — the measurement of gases.
- gipsywort — a hairy Eurasian plant, Lycopus europaeus, having two-lipped white flowers with purple dots on the lower lip: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- go astray — person: deviate from correct or good way
- gossamery — a fine, filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in the air in calm weather, especially in autumn.
- graystone — (uncountable) A type of gray, volcanic rock, typically containing feldspar and iron.
- greystone — a grey igneous rock of volcanic origin
- gustatory — of or relating to taste or tasting.
- gypsywort — a plant, Lycopus europaeus, that is indigenous to Europe and Asia and has white flowers
- gyrations — Plural form of gyration.
- gyroscope — an apparatus consisting of a rotating wheel so mounted that its axis can turn freely in certain or all directions, and capable of maintaining the same absolute direction in space in spite of movements of the mountings and surrounding parts: used to maintain equilibrium, determine direction, etc.
- heyrovsky — Jaroslav [yah-raw-slahf] /ˈyɑ rɔ slɑf/ (Show IPA), 1890–1967, Czech chemist: Nobel Prize 1959.
- hircosity — the quality of being like a goat
- historify — to make something part of history or to tell the history of something
- holy wars — [Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the terms big-endian and little-endian was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars have included Emacs vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. USG Unix, C vs. Pascal, C vs. Fortran, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also theology.
- homospory — the production of a single kind of spore, neither microspore nor megaspore.
- horoscopy — Archaic. the casting or taking of horoscopes.
- horse fly — any bloodsucking, usually large fly of the family Tabanidae, especially of the genus Tabanus, a serious pest of horses, cattle, etc.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- hybridous — of or relating to a hybrid
- hydro-ski — a hydrofoil attached to a seaplane to aid in takeoffs and landings.
- hydrocast — a process in which water is collected at various depths in a device with bottles clamped together, providing data on differing water characteristics.
- hydrogels — Plural form of hydrogel.
- hydrogens — Plural form of hydrogen.
- hydrolase — an enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis.
- hydrolyse — Alternative spelling of hydrolyze.
- hydroseed — to sow (a field, lawn, etc.) with seed by distribution in a stream of water propelled through a hose.
- hydrosere — a sere originating in water.
- hydrosols — Plural form of hydrosol.
- hydrosoma — hydrosome.
- hydrosome — the entire body of a compound hydrozoan.
- hydrostat — an electrical device for detecting the presence of water, as from overflow or leakage.
- hygristor — an electronic component the resistance of which varies with humidity
- hygrostat — an instrument for measuring and controlling humidity.
- hypocrism — (obsolete) hypocrisy.
- hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
- hypospray — (science fiction) A kind of jet injector.
- hysteroid — resembling hysteria.
- idiocrasy — idiosyncrasy.
- incensory — Thurible, censer.
- irksomely — In an irksome manner; tediously.
- isochrony — the fact or state of occurrence at the same time; contemporaneity.
- isohydric — having the same acidity or hydrogen-ion concentration
- isopropyl — containing the isopropyl group.