9-Letter Words Containing: U,S,I,A,N,S

• any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits

• edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable

• a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets

• to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition

• a state exercising a degree of dominion over a dependent state especially in its foreign affairs

• the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare

• the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason; rejects religion and the supernatural

• the cultural movement of the Renaissance; based on classical studies

• a green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone

• the act of baptizing someone by pouring water on their head

• make more humane

• the quantity that a basin will hold

• a white trivalent metallic element; sometimes classified in the rare earth group; occurs in the Scandinavian mineral thortveitite