9-letter words containing u, n, r, i, s
- semiurban — of, relating to, or designating a city or town.
- sensorium — a part of the brain or the brain itself regarded as the seat of sensation.
- severinus — died a.d. 640, pope 640.
- shinguard — sport: protective pad for lower leg
- shunpiker — a driver who takes a side road to avoid paying a turnpike toll
- sicknurse — someone who nurses a sick person
- sideburns — If a man has sideburns, he has a strip of hair growing down the side of each cheek.
- signature — a person's name, or a mark representing it, as signed personally or by deputy, as in subscribing a letter or other document.
- signeurie — seniority
- singulary — (of an operator) monadic
- sit under — to be seated on the right of (the player)
- skunkbird — a North American songbird with a black-and-white striped back, also known as a bobolink
- slurrying — a thin mixture of an insoluble substance, as cement, clay, or coal, with a liquid, as water or oil.
- spirulina — any of the blue-green algae of the genus Spirulina, sometimes added to food for its nutrient value.
- split run — a pressrun, as that of a newspaper or magazine, which is interrupted after the running of a specified number of copies to permit the substitution of type or of a cut, as in a keyed advertisement: a device for testing the relative effectiveness of different versions of an advertisement.
- spring up — If something springs up, it suddenly appears or begins to exist.
- squirming — to wriggle or writhe.
- string up — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- strontium — a bivalent, metallic element whose compounds resemble those of calcium, found in nature only in the combined state, as in strontianite: used in fireworks, flares, and tracer bullets. Symbol: Sr; atomic weight: 87.62; atomic number: 38; specific gravity: 2.6.
- strouding — a woolly material used to make strouds or blankets
- strutting — walking or moving with a strut; walking pompously; pompous.
- subentire — (of parts of plants) slightly indented
- sublinear — of, consisting of, or using lines: linear design.
- submarine — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
- submicron — (of particles) being less than a micron in overall dimensions.
- subpurlin — a light structural member for carrying roofing materials, supported by and running at right angles to purlins.
- subregion — a division or subdivision of a region, especially a division of a zoogeographical region.
- subursine — resembling a bear to some degree
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- suffering — the state of a person or thing that suffers.
- summering — the season between spring and autumn, in the Northern Hemisphere from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox, and in the Southern Hemisphere from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox.
- sun visor — a flap, usually of padded cardboard, acetate, or the like, that is attached inside a vehicle above the windshield and can be swung down to protect the eyes from the sun's glare.
- sun-dried — dried in the sun, as bricks or raisins.
- sunbright — as bright as the sun, very bright
- superfine — extra fine, as in grain or texture; unusually fine: superfine sugar.
- supermind — an exceptional mind
- supermini — the fastest and most powerful type of minicomputer, with capabilities more commonly associated with mainframes.
- superthin — extremely thin
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.
- surcingle — a belt or girth that passes around the belly of a horse and over the blanket, pack, saddle, etc., and is buckled on the horse's back.
- surfacing — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
- surliness — churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter. Synonyms: sullen, uncivil, brusque, irascible, splenetic, choleric, cross; grumpy, grouchy, crabby.
- surreined — (of horse) ridden too much
- surrejoin — to reply to a legal rejoinder
- surveying — the science or scientific method of making surveys of land.
- surviving — to remain alive after the death of someone, the cessation of something, or the occurrence of some event; continue to live: Few survived after the holocaust.
- sustainer — a person or thing that sustains.
- swinburne — Algernon Charles, 1837–1909, English poet and critic.
- taruntius — a crater in the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 38 miles (61 km) in diameter.
- thrusting — to push forcibly; shove; put or drive with force: He thrust his way through the crowd. She thrust a dagger into his back.