9-letter words containing rs
- profiters — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- purselike — resembling a purse
- pursiness — the state of being pursy
- pursuable — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- pursuance — the following or carrying out of some plan, course, injunction, or the like.
- quaestors — Plural form of quaestor.
- quarriers — Plural form of quarrier.
- quenchers — Plural form of quencher.
- quipsters — Plural form of quipster.
- racegoers — Plural form of racegoer.
- racehorse — a horse bred or kept for racing, especially in flat races or steeplechases.
- rat-arsed — drunk
- ratifiers — to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
- rearhorse — a mantis
- recursion — the process of defining a function or calculating a number by the repeated application of an algorithm.
- recursive — recursion
- reformers — a person devoted to bringing about reform, as in politics or society.
- rehearsal — a session of exercise, drill, or practice, usually private, in preparation for a public performance, ceremony, etc.: a play rehearsal; a wedding rehearsal.
- reimburse — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
- reimmerse — to immerse again
- renfierst — made fierce; enraged
- repeaters — a person or thing that repeats.
- retailers — the sale of goods to ultimate consumers, usually in small quantities (opposed to wholesale).
- retorsion — retaliation or reprisal by one state identical or similar to an act by an offending state, such as high tariffs or discriminating duties.
- revenuers — an agent of the U.S. Treasury Department, especially one whose responsibility is to enforce laws against illegal distilling or bootlegging of alcoholic liquor.
- reversely — opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character: an impression reverse to what was intended; in reverse sequence.
- reversion — the act of turning something the reverse way.
- ridership — the passengers who use a given public transportation system, as buses or trains, or the number of such passengers.
- riverside — a city in SW California.
- rodgersia — a type of flowering plant which grows in shady and moist conditions
- rulership — the act or fact of ruling or the state of being ruled: Foreign rulership of the country began in the 18th century.
- salvarsan — a medicine containing arsenic
- sanderson — Tessa. born 1956, British javelin-thrower: won gold at the 1984 Olympics
- sandhurst — a village in S England, near Reading, W of London: military college.
- scarsdale — a town in SE New York, N of New York City.
- schippers — Thomas, 1930–77, U.S. orchestra conductor.
- scripters — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- sea horse — any fish of the genus Hippocampus, of the pipefish family, having a prehensile tail, an elongated snout, and a head bent at right angles to the body.
- sea purse — the horny egg case of certain rays and sharks.
- sea-horse — any fish of the genus Hippocampus, of the pipefish family, having a prehensile tail, an elongated snout, and a head bent at right angles to the body.
- secateurs — scissors or shears, especially pruning shears.
- see stars — to see or seem to see bright moving pinpoints of light, as from a blow on the head, increased blood pressure, etc
- sicknurse — someone who nurses a sick person
- smartarse — a clever person, esp one who parades his knowledge offensively
- sparsedly — in a scattered manner
- splitters — a person or thing that splits.
- stairstep — a step in a staircase.
- star wars — a U.S. weapons research program begun in 1984 to explore technologies, including ground- and space-based lasers, for destroying attacking missiles and warheads.
- starburst — a pattern of lines or rays radiating from a central point.
- starshine — starlight