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9-letter words containing a, d, o, n

  • roundsman — a person who makes rounds, as of inspection.
  • runaround — indecisive or evasive treatment, especially in response to a request: Ask for a raise and he'll give you the runaround.
  • saffroned — containing or coloured by saffron
  • sainthood — the character or status of a saint.
  • salmonoid — resembling a salmon.
  • san diego — a seaport in SW California: naval and marine base.
  • sand goby — a species of goby, (Pomatoschistus minutus), that lives in European sandy waters
  • sand shoe — a light tennis shoe; sneaker.
  • sanderson — Tessa. born 1956, British javelin-thrower: won gold at the 1984 Olympics
  • sandshoes — light canvas shoes with rubber soles; plimsolls
  • sandspout — the sand sucked into the air by a whirlwind
  • sandstone — a common sedimentary rock consisting of sand, usually quartz, cemented together by various substances, as silica, calcium carbonate, iron oxide, or clay.
  • sandstorm — a windstorm, especially in a desert, that blows along great clouds of sand (distinguished from dust storm).
  • sangfroid — coolness of mind; calmness; composure: They committed the robbery with complete sang-froid.
  • sapanwood — a dyewood yielding a red color, produced by a small, East Indian tree, Caesalpinia sappan, of the legume family.
  • saponated — treated or combined with soap
  • sarcodine — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
  • sardonian — a person who flatters with harmful or deadly intent
  • satinwood — the satiny wood of an East Indian tree, Chloroxylon swietenia, of the rue family, used especially for making furniture.
  • scaledown — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
  • sciaenoid — belonging or pertaining to the Sciaenidae, a family of carnivorous fishes that produce a loud sound by snapping the muscles attached to their air bladder, comprising the croakers and drums.
  • secondary — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
  • seminomad — a person living a partly nomadic life; a semi-nomadic person
  • senna pod — a pod of any of various tropical plants of the leguminous genus Cassia, used in making laxatives
  • serranoid — resembling or related to the sea bass family Serranidae.
  • sforzando — to be played with strong initial attack
  • shadowing — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
  • shakedown — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • shorthand — a method of rapid handwriting using simple strokes, abbreviations, or symbols that designate letters, words, or phrases (distinguished from longhand).
  • signboard — a board bearing a sign.
  • slag down — to give a verbal lashing to
  • slap down — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
  • smackdown — a severe rebuke or criticism: his amazing smackdown of the protesters.
  • smorzando — fading away; dying out (a musical direction).
  • snakewood — the heavy, dark-red wood of a South American tree, Piratinera guianensis, used for decorative veneers, musical instrument bows, etc.
  • snodgrass — W(illiam) D(ewitt) [duh-wit] /dəˈwɪt/ (Show IPA), 1926–2009, U.S. poet.
  • snow-clad — covered with snow.
  • snowblade — one of a pair of short skis used without poles
  • snowboard — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
  • snowdonia — a massif in NW Wales, in Gwynedd, the highest peak being Snowdon
  • so-and-so — someone or something not definitely named: to gossip about so-and-so.
  • soft-land — to cause to land slowly and without jarring impact: to soft-land the module on the planet's surface.
  • sound law — phonetic law.
  • sound man — a technician who produces sound effects.
  • soundcard — A soundcard is a piece of equipment which can be put into a computer so that the computer can produce music or other sounds.
  • southland — a southern area.
  • squadrone — a former Scottish political party, active in the last parliament of Scotland before the Act of Union, in the early 18th century
  • staghound — a hound trained to hunt stags and other large animals.
  • staminode — a sterile or abortive stamen.
  • staminody — the metamorphosis of any of various flower organs, as a sepal or a petal, into a stamen.
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