9-letter words containing a, e, r, o, s, t
- shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
- shorthead — a brachycephalic person.
- shortwave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
- shotmaker — a sports player delivering good shots
- snakeroot — any of various plants whose roots have been regarded as a remedy for snakebites, as the herb Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot) having a medicinal rhizome and rootlets, and the white-flowered Polygala senega (Seneca snakeroot) having a medicinal root.
- solitaire — Also called patience. any of various games played by one person with one or more regular 52-card packs, part or all of which are usually dealt out according to a given pattern, the object being to arrange the cards in a predetermined manner.
- solutrean — Archaeology. of or designating an Upper Paleolithic European culture c18,000–16,000 b.c., characterized by the making of stone projectile points and low-relief stone sculptures.
- sonnetary — relating to sonnets
- sorediate — having soredia
- sörenstam — Annika (ˈænɪka). born 1970, Swedish golfer; winner of the US Women's Open (1995, 1996, 2006), the LPGA Championship (2003, 2004, 2005), and the British Women's Open (2003)
- spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.
- spearwort — any of several buttercups having lance-shaped leaves and small flowers, as Ranunculus ambigens, of the eastern U.S., growing in mud.
- spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- spermato- — indicating sperm
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- spot rate — trading: immediate price
- standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
- stare out — If you stare someone out, you look steadily into their eyes for such a long time that they feel that they have to turn their eyes away from you.
- starstone — a precious stone which has been cut in such a way that it reflects light in a starlike pattern
- stateroom — a private room or compartment on a ship, train, etc.
- stationer — a person who sells the materials used in writing, as paper, pens, pencils, and ink.
- stay over — spend the night
- stegosaur — a plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Stegosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a heavy, bony armor and a row of bony plates along its back, and growing to a length of 20 to 40 feet (6–12 meters).
- stercoral — stercoraceous
- steroidal — any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds, as the sterols, bile acids, and sex hormones, most of which have specific physiological action.
- stomacher — a richly ornamented garment covering the stomach and chest, worn by both sexes in the 15th and 16th centuries, and later worn under a bodice by women.
- stoneware — a hard, opaque, vitrified ceramic ware.
- storecard — A storecard is a plastic card that you use to buy goods on credit from a particular store or group of stores.
- stourhead — a Palladian mansion near Mere in Wiltshire: built (1722) for Henry Hoare; famous for its landscaped gardens laid out (1741) by Flitcroft
- strokable — appearing pleasant to stroke
- subrogate — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- superatom — a cluster of atoms behaving in certain ways like a single atom
- surrogate — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
- swear out — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
- tailoress — a female tailor
- teleosaur — a type of crocodile from the Jurassic period
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- teratosis — teratism (def 2).
- theocrasy — a mixture of religious forms and deities by worshipers.
- timor sea — an arm of the Indian Ocean, between Timor and NW Australia.
- tornadoes — a localized, violently destructive windstorm occurring over land, especially in the Middle West, and characterized by a long, funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris. Compare waterspout (def 3).
- transcode — (language) An early system on the Ferut computer.
- transpose — to change the relative position, order, or sequence of; cause to change places; interchange: to transpose the third and fourth letters of a word.
- trasimeno — a lake in central Italy, in Umbria near Perugia: Romans defeated by Hannibal 217 b.c. About 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km).
- trehalose — a white, crystalline disaccharide, C 12 H 22 O 11 , occurring in yeast, certain fungi, etc., and used to identify certain bacteria.
- trousseau — an outfit of clothing, household linen, etc., for a bride.
- tsavorite — a green variety of grossularite, found in Kenya in 1975 and used as a gem.
- unroasted — not roasted or cooked over dry heat