9-letter words containing a, c, t, o, s
- stoneface — living stones.
- stopwatch — a watch with a hand or hands that can be stopped or started at any instant, used for precise timing, as in races.
- storecard — A storecard is a plastic card that you use to buy goods on credit from a particular store or group of stores.
- story arc — a continuing storyline in a television series that gradually unfolds over several episodes
- stratonic — of or relating to an army
- stroupach — a cup of tea
- subaction — an act of subduing
- subatomic — of or relating to a process that occurs within an atom.
- subcantor — a deputy to a cantor
- subcostal — below the rib
- suboctave — an octave below another octave
- succorant — the act of seeking out affectionate care and social support.
- succotash — a cooked dish of kernels of corn mixed with shell beans, especially lima beans, and, often, with green and sweet red peppers.
- suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- suffocate — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- sugarcoat — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
- sulcation — having long, narrow grooves or channels, as plant stems, or being furrowed or cleft, as hoofs.
- sycophant — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sympatico — simpatico
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- tailstock — a movable or sliding support for the dead center of a lathe or grinder.
- taoiseach — The prime minister of the Republic of Ireland is called the Taoiseach.
- tau cross — a T -shaped cross.
- taxaceous — belonging to the Taxaceae, the yew family of plants.
- tenacious — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
- the coast — in the U.S., the Pacific coast
- theaceous — belonging to the Theaceae, the tea family of plants.
- theocrasy — a mixture of religious forms and deities by worshipers.
- tocantins — a river in E Brazil, flowing N to the Pará River. 1700 miles (2735 km) long.
- top-class — Top-class means among the finest of its kind.
- topcastle — a large fighting top used in medieval ships.
- toscanini — Arturo [ahr-too r-oh;; Italian ahr-too-raw] /ɑrˈtʊər oʊ;; Italian ɑrˈtu rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1867–1957, Italian orchestra conductor, in the U.S. after 1928.
- tovarisch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- townscape — a scene or view, either pictorial or natural, of a town or city.
- transcode — (language) An early system on the Ferut computer.
- transonic — close to the speed of propagation of sound; moving at 700–780 miles per hour (1127–1255 km/h) at sea level.
- triclosan — a drug used to treat skin infections
- trifocals — glasses with trifocal lenses
- trossachs — a valley in central Scotland, in Perth county, near Loch Katrine.
- tuscarora — a member of an Indian people living originally in North Carolina and later, after their admission into the Iroquois confederacy, in New York.
- vasectomy — excision of the vas deferens, or of a portion of it: performed to effect sterility in men.
- vasotocin — a chemical similar to oxytocin found in birds, fish, and some amphibians
- vasotonic — pertaining to or regulating the tone of the blood vessels.
- videocast — a television broadcast of the video only.
- vitaceous — belonging to the Vitaceae, the grape family of plants.
- vitascope — one of the first motion-picture projectors, developed by Thomas Edison.
- volcanist — a person who studies volcanoes
- wainscots — Plural form of wainscot.
- waistcoat — Chiefly British. vest (def 1).