8-letter words containing u, r, s, o
- squarson — a clergyman who is also main local landowner
- stentour — a tax assessor or person who determines the amount of tax that is owed
- store up — save, keep in reserve
- stormful — having many storms; stormy
- stratous — of or relating to stratus
- strumose — having a struma or strumae.
- strumous — strumose.
- stubborn — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- studwork — the act or process of building with studding.
- sturgeon — any of various large fishes of the family Acipenseridae, inhabiting fresh and salt North Temperate waters, valued for their flesh and as a source of caviar and isinglass: A. brevirostrum, of the Atlantic coast, is endangered.
- sturnoid — of or relating to starlings
- sub rosa — confidentially; secretly; privately.
- sub-zero — indicating or recording lower than zero on some scale, especially on the Fahrenheit scale: a week of sub-zero temperatures.
- subchord — a part of a chord
- subcover — a set of subsets of a cover of a given set that also is a cover of the set.
- suberose — of the nature of cork; corklike; corky.
- subfloor — a rough floor beneath a finished floor.
- subgroup — a subordinate group; a division of a group.
- suborder — a category of related families within an order.
- suborned — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- subpolar — subantarctic.
- subprior — a monk junior to a prior
- subround — somewhat round or rounded.
- subsolar — situated beneath the sun or between the earth and the sun.
- subworld — in literary theory, a world 'created' by a character within a text world or fiction, for example through a flashback or reminiscence on the part of the character; the subworld is subordinate to but not part of the text world
- sudatory — pertaining to or causing sweating.
- sudorous — sweaty
- summoner — to call upon to do something specified.
- sundrops — any of various plants of the genus Oenothera, of the evening primrose family, having flowers that bloom during the day.
- sunporch — a room with large windows and often a glass roof, built around one of the main entrances to a building
- sunproof — impervious to sunlight or damage by the rays of the sun.
- suo jure — in one's own right.
- supercop — an exceptionally capable or powerful police officer
- supercow — a dairy cow that produces a very high milk yield as a result of selective breeding or genetic modification
- superego — the part of the personality representing the conscience, formed in early life by internalization of the standards of parents and other models of behavior.
- superhot — extremely hot
- superior — higher in station, rank, degree, importance, etc.: a superior officer.
- superloo — an automated public toilet
- supermom — a mother who successfully manages a household and cares for her children while holding a job or being active in her community.
- superpro — a person regarded as a genuine professional
- surfboat — a strong, buoyant rowboat with high ends, adapted for beaching and passing through surf.
- surmount — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- surround — to enclose on all sides; encompass: She was surrounded by reporters.
- surroyal — the terminal section of a stag's horns, above the section known as the 'royal'
- surveyor — a person whose occupation is surveying.
- survivor — a person or thing that survives.
- sutorial — relating to sewing or cobbling
- temerous — audacious
- thrombus — a fibrinous clot that forms in and obstructs a blood vessel, or that forms in one of the chambers of the heart.
- thurston — a male given name: from a Scandinavian word meaning “Thor's stone.”.