9-letter words containing a, l, s, t, o, n
- rosenthal — Jean, 1912–69, U.S. theatrical lighting designer.
- sail into — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
- saint leo — Saint (Bruno) 1002–54, German ecclesiastic: pope 1049–54.
- saltation — a dancing, hopping, or leaping movement.
- salvation — the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.
- santolina — any plant of the evergreen Mediterranean genus Santolina, esp S. chamaecyparissus, grown for its silvery-grey felted foliage: family Asteraceae (composites)
- scalation — an arrangement of scales, as on a fish.
- sectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- serotinal — pertaining to or occurring in late summer.
- siltation — earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- slabstone — a paving stone in the form of a slab; flagstone
- slant-top — (especially of a desk) having a slant front.
- soft loan — A soft loan is a loan with a very low interest rate. Soft loans are usually made to developing countries or to businesses in developing countries.
- soft-land — to cause to land slowly and without jarring impact: to soft-land the module on the planet's surface.
- 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.
- solvation — a compound formed by the interaction of a solvent and a solute.
- southland — a southern area.
- stand oil — a thick oil made by heating linseed oil to temperatures of 600°F and higher, used chiefly as a medium in paints.
- stational — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- stolonate — having stolons; developing from a stolon.
- stonewall — to engage in stonewalling.
- sublation — to deny or contradict; negate.
- sulcation — having long, narrow grooves or channels, as plant stems, or being furrowed or cleft, as hoofs.
- sulfation — Chemistry. a salt or ester of sulfuric acid.
- sulfonate — an ester or salt derived from a sulfonic acid.
- tantalous — containing trivalent tantalum.
- tensional — the act of stretching or straining.
- tolstoyan — Leo or Lev Nikolaevich [lev nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich;; Russian lyef nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /lɛv ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ əˌvɪtʃ;; Russian ˈlyɛf nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Count, 1828–1910, Russian novelist and social critic.
- tonle sap — a lake in W Cambodia, draining into the Mekong River.
- tonoplast — a membrane separating a vacuole from the surrounding cytoplasm in a plant cell.
- 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.
- triclosan — a drug used to treat skin infections
- volcanist — a person who studies volcanoes
- wollaston — William Hyde, 1766–1828, English chemist and physicist.
- xenoblast — a crystal that forms in metamorphic rock and gets its outline from neighboring crystals.