9-letter words containing roo
- marrooned — Simple past tense and past participle of marroon.
- mothproof — resistant to attack by moths.
- multiroom — having several rooms
- mushrooms — Plural form of mushroom.
- mushroomy — Redolent of mushrooms.
- new broom — Someone who has just started a new job and who is expected to make a lot of changes can be referred to as a new broom.
- newsrooms — Plural form of newsroom.
- orrisroot — the rootstock of the orris, used in perfumery, medicine, etc.
- ouanderoo — Archaic form of wanderoo.
- outrooper — an auctioneer
- ovenproof — capable of withstanding the heat of an oven; safe for use in cooking in an oven: an ovenproof dish.
- overproof — containing a greater proportion of alcohol than proof spirit does.
- paratroop — of or relating to a paratrooper or a parachute unit: paratroop boots.
- pickaroon — to act or operate as a pirate or brigand.
- pickproof — (of a lock) designed so that it cannot be picked.
- pink root — a disease of onions and other plants, characterized by pink, withered roots, caused by a fungus, Pyrenochaeta terrestris.
- pressroom — the room in a printing or newspaper publishing establishment where the printing presses are installed.
- prooemion — a preface
- proof set — a set of coins (proof coins), one of each denomination, minted annually from highly polished metal on special dies, issued for collectors rather than for circulation
- proofless — lacking proof
- proofread — to read (printers' proofs, copy, etc.) in order to detect and mark errors to be corrected.
- proofroom — a room used for proofreading
- prop root — an adventitious root that supports the plant, as the aerial roots of the mangrove tree or of corn.
- puckerood — ruined; exhausted
- pump room — a room at a spa for drinking mineral waters.
- puttyroot — an American orchid, Aplectrum hyemale, having a slender naked rootstock that produces a leafless stalk with a loose cluster of yellowish-brown flowers.
- quadroons — Plural form of quadroon.
- quintroon — a person having one octoroon and one White parent and therefore having one-sixteenth Black blood
- rainproof — impervious to rain; keeping out or unaffected by rain: a rainproof cover; a rainproof coat.
- rest room — rooms or a room having a washbowl, toilet, and other facilities for use by employees, visitors, etc., as in a store, theater, or office.
- rood arch — an archway at the center of a rood screen.
- rood beam — a beam above the entrance to the choir or chancel of a church, supporting the rood.
- rood loft — a gallery above a rood screen, approached from stairs, used for chantings and readings.
- roof iris — an iris, Iris tectorum, of China and Japan, having frilled, violet or white flowers.
- roof rack — A roof rack is a metal frame that is fixed on top of a car and used for carrying large objects.
- roof-deck — a part of a flat roof used for gardening, sunbathing, etc.
- roofscape — a view of the rooftops of a town, city, etc
- room only — Room only is used to indicate that the price of accommodations in a hotel or guest house does not include the cost of food.
- roominess — affording ample room; spacious; large.
- roosevelt — (Anna) Eleanor, 1884–1962, U.S. diplomat, author, and lecturer (wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt).
- root beer — a carbonated beverage flavored with syrup made from the extracted juices of roots, barks, and herbs that have been fermented with sugar and yeast.
- root crop — a crop, as beets, turnips, or sweet potatoes, grown for its large and edible undergound parts.
- root hair — an elongated tubular extension of an epidermal cell of a root, serving to absorb water and minerals from the soil.
- root knot — a disease of plants, characterized by galls or knots on the roots and stunted growth, caused by any of several nematodes of the genus Meloidogyne.
- root mode — Synonym with wizard mode or "wheel mode". Like these, it is often generalised to describe privileged states in systems other than operating systems.
- root node — (mathematics, data) In a tree, a node with no parents, but which typically has daughters.
- root sign — the symbol √ placed before a number or quantity to indicate the extraction of a root, esp a square root. The value of a higher root is indicated by a raised digit in front of the symbol, as in 3√
- root test — the theorem that a given infinite series converges if the n th root of the absolute value of the n th term approaches a limit less than 1 as n increases without bound.
- root word — basic word form without prefix or suffix
- rootbound — (of a pot plant) having outgrown its pot, so that the roots are cramped and tangled