9-letter words containing a, i, r, t, n, s
- stranding — to form (a rope, cable, etc.) by twisting strands together.
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
- strapping — powerfully built; robust.
- stratonic — of or relating to an army
- strayling — a stray
- streaking — a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud.
- streaming — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- streisand — Barbra. born 1942, US singer, actress, and film director: the films she has acted in include Funny Girl (1968) and A Star is Born (1976); her films as actress and director include Yentl (1983), Prince of Tides (1990), and The Mirror has Two Faces (1996)
- striation — striated condition or appearance.
- strontian — strontianite.
- strychnia — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.
- sustainer — a person or thing that sustains.
- tarantism — a mania characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance, especially as prevalent in southern Italy from the 15th to the 17th century, popularly attributed to the bite of the tarantula.
- tarantist — a mania characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance, especially as prevalent in southern Italy from the 15th to the 17th century, popularly attributed to the bite of the tarantula.
- tardiness — late; behind time; not on time: How tardy were you today?
- tarnished — metal: discolored
- tartiness — the condition or characteristic of being tarty
- taruntius — a crater in the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 38 miles (61 km) in diameter.
- tearstain — a mark or wet streak left by tears.
- the rains — the season of heavy rainfall, esp in the tropics
- thirdsman — an intermediary or arbitrator; the third person
- thrashing — an act or instance of thrashing; beating; blow.
- tonsillar — a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.
- tonsorial — of or relating to a barber or barbering: the tonsorial shop.
- torsional — the act of twisting.
- trachinus — a weever fish
- trailsman — a person who follows a trail.
- train set — a toy train, together with the track that it runs on, toy station, etc
- trainings — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
- trainshed — (in a railroad station) a shelter completely covering railroad tracks and their adjoining platforms.
- trainsick — ill with train sickness.
- traipsing — to walk or go aimlessly or idly or without finding or reaching one's goal: We traipsed all over town looking for a copy of the book.
- tramlines — streetcar track
- transient — not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory.
- transited — the act or fact of passing across or through; passage from one place to another.
- transonic — close to the speed of propagation of sound; moving at 700–780 miles per hour (1127–1255 km/h) at sea level.
- transpire — to occur; happen; take place.
- transship — to transfer from one ship, truck, freight car, or other conveyance to another.
- trappings — articles of equipment or dress, especially of an ornamental character.
- trasimeno — a lake in central Italy, in Umbria near Perugia: Romans defeated by Hannibal 217 b.c. About 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km).
- tribesman — a member of a tribe.
- triclosan — a drug used to treat skin infections
- trisagion — an ancient hymn
- tsaritsyn — a former name of Volgograd.
- tsiranana — Philibert [fil-uh-bert] /ˈfɪl ə bərt/ (Show IPA), 1910–78, president of the Malagasy Republic (now Madagascar) 1959–72.
- turkistan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
- tyrannies — arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority. Synonyms: despotism, absolutism, dictatorship.
- tyrannise — to exercise absolute power or control, especially cruelly or oppressively (often followed by over).