9-Letter Words Containing U

Fable of a game with visitors 2 short

Horse, maybe, in system

Soldier in appropriate American gear

Gear, as put out for soldier to wear

Acknowledged in a handy manner!

Didn't let a good turn go unrewarded

Cheered a dud Apple developed

One who applauds.

Applause

Applique

Fabric decorations

Subject of certain tests.

Strangely it updates natural abilities

Special talents

Lakeside attractions

Pool exhibitions

Aquanaut

Motorboat's tow, perhaps

Water skis alternative

Skim on layer of water

Watercolour is all a queer mishmash

Painting technique

Watercolor

Lincoln, F.D.R. et al.

Most people born in February

Oprah and Ellen, by birth

Dolphin fans (wordplay)

Water plants inside these (wordplay)

Pet store purchases

Tanks or bowls for fish

Goya's "Los Caprichos" set, for example

Some prints

Water carriers

Acts due for renewal to cover question of water transporters

Conduits

Showy flower, also known as columbine

One member - one in water - is Columbine

Plant also known as Granny's Bonnet

Ballet position - sea barque (anagram)

A square be a ballet movement (wordplay)

Intertwined ornamental design

* Song about goldfish (nearly)

Monkey puzzle tree (or Chile pine)

Evergreen song about golden vehicle

Opposite of 26 Across

Where one can't see the wood, they say!

Place for ashes in the garden (wordplay)

A gathering of elders (wordplay)

""Any of a large group of viruses transmitted by arthropods, such as mosquitoes and ticks, that include the causative agents of encephalitis, yellow fever, and dengue.""

Arbuscle

Arbutus

Arcature

Befitting a prince.

Sovereign prince's domain

River out of churchyard meandering into Austria, perhaps

Franz Ferdinand, et al.

Some of the Habsburgs

""A reptile of the subclass Archosauria, which includes the dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and the modern crocodilians.""

In the form of a bow.

With great effort

Arethusa

Argentum

Toronto seafarers (wordplay)

Golden Fleece seekers

Jason's group

Argufier

Argufy

Plural of argumentum .

Discussions or quarrels

Some are heated

Exchanges knitted garment with us

Armature

Frameworks used with modeling clay.

Frameworks in clay modeling

Wire-wound dynamo parts.

Makers of weapons, in Britain.

They were once responsible for the mail

The house that Rosemary Sutcliff built

Troops will impound our weapons

Stores of weapons

Armour

Of a certain poison.

Nears confusion over promises to pay may make it poisonous

Pertaining to the joints

Pertaining to joints

Relating to a joint

Aruspex

Vote dividing European Union in a journey that's without intimacy in partnership

Spear on a fork (wordplay)

It has tips for good dining.

Grasp a rag usefully wrapping vegetable

ASPECT to look at

""Mineral pitch, Jews' pitch, or compact native bitumen. It is brittle, of a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fracture; it melts and burns when heated, leaving no residue. It occurs on the surface and shores of the Dead Sea, which is therefore called Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen.Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen.""

Pickled in a violent way (wordplay)

A pickled sound is 19 down

Came to blows with a seasoned sound

One making violent attack (on another person)

Attacker.

""Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence.""

Showing great care and perseverance

Marked by care and persistent effort

Hard-working

Alleviating, allaying

Alleviating, appeasing

Bringing relief to, as a guilty conscience

Soothing

Like some obligations

Like some mortgages

By way of assumption.

""A promise or undertaking, founded on a consideration. This promise may be oral or in writing not under seal. It may be express or implied.""

Confidence (in abilities)

Uses car with an awful confidence

Freedom from doubt.

Without a doubt

Without a doubt.

With confidence

Rising

Amazed by odd aunts round about the east

Shocked when a good man's 'arrassed

Amazed at the date, by the sound of it

A nut roast served for one on rocket

One making use of space (wordplay)

One making good use of space (wordplay)

Club menu the AA had changed (wordplay)

Inclusive book on wheels (wordplay)

Articles on a menu arranged by club

Reading rooms

Our coat is incredibly appalling

Terrible actor in trouble with debts

Very bad tragic actor promises to pay

Reduce (a signal)

Had a late meal to make one thin

To have eaten so late may make you thin

Duet? Sit at different positions

Points of view.

Edits taut review of Points of View

... for a eulogist (wordplay)

Ascribe (to a cause)

Virtue by payment

Purple and gold mixture of beer and gin

Deep purple colour

Fruit popular in French inn

Aubretia

Aubrieta

Had lots to sell (wordplay)

Had a lot to offer (wordplay)

Like a lot, perhaps

Our Altaic version of the author

Of, by or typical of an author

Pertaining to a writer

Rash or insolent

Daring USA duo involved with CIA

Bold and daring

Play groups (wordplay)

House sitters (wordplay)

Interviews those in the theatre

Part of a hearing test, maybe

The measurement of hearing.

Band that plays music (wordplay)

Sound evidence (wordplay)

Garage band's production, once

AUDIT to examine accounts

Screen shots (wordplay)

Reads for a part

Tryouts for performers.

Auditive

Eg, concert halls

They are found in schools

School meeting places

Added value to

Added to, increased

Grew, increased

""One who, or that which, augments or increases anything.""

AUGMENT to {increase=v}

August

Aunthood

Auntly

Aureole

Pl. auriculas or auriculae (-l ) A central European primrose (Primula auricula) having large yellow flowers grouped in umbels. Also called bear's ear .

Cur Laura and I stupidly told privately

French composer's universal god of the ear

Auricula

Wild oxen extinct since 1627

Ausform

A foreigner.

A constituent of some forms of steel

Tate in use, perhaps, for one who likes Jane

Planned a Yule rest with no frills

In a harsh or severe way

Simply gives us tea when out - depend on it!

Most severe state sure to be troublesome

Extremely severe

British program of belt-tightening

Condition in post-war British economy.

Severeness of manner

Austral

Autacoid

AUTARCH an absolute ruler

Autarky

Autecism

AUTEUR the creator of a film

Real thin with a cute bust!

Genuine, not a copy

Real thin with a cute bust

Arthouses neglected creative person

Writer shares out bubbly

Writer shares out novel development

A harlot, I suspect, stealing Waugh's heart as a novelist (wordplay)

Author

I share out (anagram)

Writer is going east to say it's okay

Sanction or establish officially

Hoyle, for one

Write on sex with variable confidence

Writer's got it - 'unknown power'

John Irving's peepers (wordplay)

Give the go-ahead to

Give the green LIGHT to

Autistic

Travelling South, a ban on roads like this

Motor coaches

They're often escorted by police

Surgical instruments steriliser

Relative of a pressure cooker.

Kin of a pressure cooker

Autocoid

Absolute government by one person

Dictatorship, e.g

One-man rule.

They reign without rein

Rulers with unlimited power

They're absolutely at the top.

Tossed out this sort of clue about sport

Motor racing over rough terrain

Slalom race on parking lot course

Autodyne

Having all stages of a life cycle occurring on the same host.

Golden garment on back of film needs training to relieve stress

Helicopters of yore

Helicopters' kin

A tissue or organ grafted into a new position in or on the body of the same individual.

Sign of the self (wordplay)

Car dealer's chart (wordplay)

Hound's quarry (wordplay)

Some aircraft with propellers

Autolyse

Autolyse

Self destruction of cells

""Of, pertaining to, or causing autolysis.""

Autolyze

Autolyze

Model company (wordplay)

Ford, for one

Mercedes or Volvo

Handled by machinery

Like today's tellers

Like vending machines

Couple in a one-car family (wordplay)

Builds a robot for

Makes machine-run

Will it shoot itself (wordplay)

Occurring as a matter of course

Type of gun or car

Man of sorts.

Does this amount to a robot (wordplay)

Man of many parts, perhaps

Like a nervous system

Occurring involuntarily

Acting independently.

Unthinking state (figurative)

High-level stand-in chauffeur (wordplay)

Robot flier (wordplay)

Finally examined gold deposit that's misplaced

A piteous drunk, having died, examined thus (wordplay)

End-of-term examinations (wordplay)

End-of-term examinations

An A of A&E

An expressway in France and French-speaking countries.

AUTOSOME a type of chromosome

Autosome

Of or pertaining to autotelism.

""An organism which is autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.""

Autotype

Autunite

Should say type of verb

Providing additional support

Functioning in a supporting capacity

""An organism, such as a strain of bacteria, that has lost the ability to synthesize certain substances required for its growth and metabolism as the result of mutational changes.""

Not having blood vessels

Avifauna

Of the birds of a region.

Avifauna

Not virulent.

Avoucher

Keeping out of hospital, stifling cry of pain, giving assurance

Avulsion

Friendly, as an older relative, say

Friendly, like some relatives

Friendly in a non-threatening way

Wondering at a vehicle we collided with

Lost for words as we crashed lorry

Ace you and I hit is impressed

Awful

Quality of being horrid

Flew unperturbed when fool went around in a terrible state

Enormity

Brazilian plant that has winged fruits

Tea in some Amazonian rituals

Psychotropic drug said to induce spiritual experiences

Ayurveda

Of or pertaining to the azimuth; in a horizontal circle.

Azoturia

Babirusa

Russian peasant wear

Russian headscarves

COURT to {woo=v}

Backhaul

A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary.

Salmonella, for example

Micro-organism that can cause disease

Micro-organism

*Runs down, in a way

Speaks ill of

Severely criticizes

Baghouse

Long, thin loaves of bread

Long, thin loaves

French bread loaves

With malice aforethought.

With undisguised menace

Balisaur

Stair rail supports.

Staircase railings

BANEFUL poisonous

Causes to go into receivership.

Forces out of Monopoly

Ruins financially

Partook of a feast

Took many courses

Had a feast

Diner.

Sidewalk, in the South.

Upholstered wall bench

Bench built into a wall

Exceedingly brutal

Brutal; uncivilised

Two boozers getting round us, being uncivilised

Cooked Texas-style

Had a cookout

They say doll waited in line and got roasted

""BARBECUE to grill over an open fire, also BARBEQUE""

Events with steak-holders (wordplay)

Meals outside cooked on an open fire

Uses an outdoor grill

Barbeque

Barbeque

Barguest

Barleduc

""BAROQUE a bold decorative style, also BAROCCO, BAROCK""

Four-wheeled carriages.

Diminutive form