9-letter words containing a, e, r, o, t
- 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
- take form — be shaped
- take over — the act of taking.
- take root — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- talk over — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- tambourer — someone who embroiders on a tambour
- tanorexic — obsessed with maintaining a permanent deep tan, esp through use of tanning machines
- taper off — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- tarkenton — Francis Asbury ("Fran") born 1940, U.S. football player.
- taylorite — a modified form of Calvinism that maintains that every person has a free will, and that makes a distinction between depravity, as the tendency to commit sins, and sin, as a voluntary choice of evil actions.
- tear bomb — a bomb or grenade containing tear gas.
- tear down — to pull apart or in pieces by force, especially so as to leave ragged or irregular edges. Synonyms: rend, rip, rive. Antonyms: mend, repair, sew.
- tear into — to pull apart or in pieces by force, especially so as to leave ragged or irregular edges. Synonyms: rend, rip, rive. Antonyms: mend, repair, sew.
- tectorial — a rooflike structure.
- teleosaur — a type of crocodile from the Jurassic period
- temporary — an office worker hired, usually through an agency on a per diem basis, for a short period of time.
- tentorial — Anatomy. an extension of one of the membranes covering the cerebrum which, with the transverse fissure, separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- teratogen — a drug or other substance capable of interfering with the development of a fetus, causing birth defects.
- teratosis — teratism (def 2).
- terraform — to alter the environment of (a celestial body) in order to make capable of supporting terrestrial life forms.
- tetralogy — a series of four related dramas, operas, novels, etc.
- tetrapody — a measure consisting of four feet.
- textorial — relating to weaving or weavers
- theocracy — a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.
- theocrasy — a mixture of religious forms and deities by worshipers.
- theolatry — worship of a deity.
- thorazine — chlorpromazine
- timor sea — an arm of the Indian Ocean, between Timor and NW Australia.
- tirewoman — a lady's maid.
- toadeater — a toady.