9-letter words containing our
- miscolour — (transitive) To give a wrong colour to.
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- mournfull — Archaic form of mournful.
- mournings — Plural form of mourning.
- mournival — a card game whose object is to gain a set of four aces, kings, queens, or knaves in one hand
- neighbour — a person who lives near another.
- noncolour — an achromatic colour such as black or white
- nonlabour — not relating to or concerned with work
- nourished — Simple past tense and past participle of nourish.
- nourisher — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- nourishes — Plural form of nourish.
- nouriture — Obsolete form of nurture.
- odourless — Having no odour.
- of colour — People of colour are people who belong to a race with dark skins.
- of course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- off-hours — an hour or other period when a person is not at a job: I spend my off-hours reading.
- ouroboros — A serpent, dragon or worm who eats its own tail, a representation of the continuous cycle of life and death.
- 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.
- outpoured — Simple past tense and past participle of outpour.
- outpourer — a person who pours something out
- outsavour — to exceed in savouring
- outsource — (of a company or organization) to purchase (goods) or subcontract (services) from an outside supplier or source.
- parcourse — an outdoor exercise track or course, especially for joggers, equipped with a series of stations along the way where one is to stop and perform a specific exercise.
- peak-hour — during the busiest hours; used esp of traffic and demand for gas, electricity etc
- pompadour — Marquise de (Jeanne Antoinette Poisson Le Normant d'Étioles) 1721–64, mistress of Louis XV of France.
- potpourri — a mixture of dried petals of roses or other flowers with spices, kept in a jar for their fragrance.
- pour into — If you pour money or supplies into an activity or organization, or if it pours in, a lot of money or supplies are given in order to do the activity or help the organization.
- pour test — any test for determining the pour point of a substance.
- pourboire — a gratuity; tip.
- pouringly — in a pouring fashion
- pourparty — purparty.
- pourpoint — a stuffed and quilted doublet worn by men from the 14th to 17th centuries.
- prolabour — favouring an organized labour movement
- pyoureter — distention of a ureter with pus.
- rag gourd — loofah (def 1).
- recontour — the outline of a figure or body; the edge or line that defines or bounds a shape or object.
- renourish — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- resourced — If an organization is resourced, it has all the things, such as money and materials, that it needs to function properly.
- resources — a source of supply, support, or aid, especially one that can be readily drawn upon when needed.
- rush hour — a time of day in which large numbers of people are in transit, as going to or returning from work, and that is characterized by particularly heavy traffic.
- savouries — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
- scourging — a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
- scourings — dirt or refuse removed by scouring.
- sojourner — a temporary stay: during his sojourn in Paris.
- sour dock — any of various weedy plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, as R. obtusifolius (bitter dock) or R. acetosa (sour dock) having long taproots.
- sour mash — a blended grain mash used in the distilling of some whiskeys, consisting of new mash and a portion of mash from a preceding run and yielding a high rate of lactic acid.
- sour milk — milk that has spoiled
- sour salt — crystals of citric acid used as a flavoring in foods, carbonated beverages, and pharmaceuticals.
- sourberry — lemonade berry.
- sourceful — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?