9-letter words containing u, l, r
- opercular — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- operculum — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- oraculous — resembling an oracle
- orbicular — like an orb; circular; ringlike; spherical; rounded.
- orotundly — In an orotund manner.
- oulujarvi — a lake in central Finland, draining through the Oulu River to the Gulf of Bothnia.
- 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.
- outlander — a foreigner; alien.
- outlinear — relating to an outline
- outliners — Plural form of outliner.
- outlustre — (poetic, transitive) To surpass in brightness or lustre; to outshine.
- outplacer — a person who outplaces ex-employees
- outtravel — (transitive) To exceed in speed or distance travelled.
- outwardly — as regards appearance or outward manifestation: outwardly charming; outwardly considerate.
- overbuild — to erect too many buildings in (an area).
- overbuilt — Simple past tense and past participle of overbuild.
- overcloud — to overspread with or as if with clouds: a summer storm that briefly overclouds the sun; to overcloud one's pleasure with solemn thoughts.
- overflush — too flush
- overlusty — too lusty
- overruler — someone who overrules another
- overvalue — to value too highly; put too high a value on: They should be careful not to overvalue the property.
- ovulatory — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- paludrine — proguanil hydrochloride, a synthetic antimalarial drug first produced in 1944
- par value — face value (def 1).
- paragould — a city in NE Arkansas.
- paralogue — either of a pair of genes derived from the same ancestral gene
- paramylum — a polysaccharide occurring as a reserve carbohydrate in the cytoplasm of Euglena
- parbuckle — a kind of tackle for raising or lowering a cask or similar object along an inclined plane or a vertical surface, consisting of a rope looped over a post or the like, with its two ends passing around the object to be moved.
- pasquiler — a person who lampoons or pasquinades; a satirist
- patroclus — Classical Mythology. a friend of Achilles, who was slain by Hector at Troy.
- pedicular — of or relating to lice.
- penumbral — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- permabull — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will rise
- perpetual — continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
- perusable — having the ability to be perused
- petroleum — oil used for fuel
- petroleur — a male individual who uses petroleum to cause explosions or fires
- 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
- playgroup — a group of small children, especially preschoolers, organized for play or play activities and supervised by adult volunteers.
- pleasured — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pleasurer — a person who seeks pleasure
- pleasures — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pleuritic — inflammation of the pleura, with or without a liquid effusion in the pleural cavity, characterized by a dry cough and pain in the affected side.
- pleuritis — an instance of pleurisy
- plicature — the act or procedure of folding.
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- plump for — to drop or fall heavily or suddenly; come down abruptly or with direct impact.