9-letter words containing a, l, s, t, r, o
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- pyroclast — a piece of lava ejected from a volcano
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- rock salt — common salt occurring in extensive, irregular beds in rocklike masses.
- rock-salt — common salt occurring in extensive, irregular beds in rocklike masses.
- rootstalk — a rhizome.
- rosenthal — Jean, 1912–69, U.S. theatrical lighting designer.
- rostrally — in a rostral manner
- royalmast — the highest part of a mast
- salivator — any agent that causes salivation.
- sallyport — a gateway permitting the passage of a large number of troops at a time.
- salometer — salinometer.
- salt pork — pork cured with salt, especially the fat pork taken from the back, sides, and belly.
- saltatory — pertaining to or adapted for saltation.
- saltworks — (often used with a plural verb) a building or plant where salt is made.
- salvatore — a male given name.
- salvatory — a place for storing something safely
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- sartorial — of or relating to tailors or their trade: sartorial workmanship.
- sclerotal — a bony area or plate found in the sclerotic (the eyeball covering) of some animals
- sectorial — of or relating to a sector.
- serotinal — pertaining to or occurring in late summer.
- shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
- shortwall — pertaining to a means of extracting coal when the working face is about a third the length of the longwall system and mining is done by a continuous cutter rather than by longwall machinery.
- sibilator — someone who whistles
- simulator — a person or thing that simulates.
- slavocrat — (in the US before the Civil War) a slaveholder, or an advocate of slavery
- solfatara — a fumarole that gives off only sulfurous gases.
- 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.
- sour salt — crystals of citric acid used as a flavoring in foods, carbonated beverages, and pharmaceuticals.
- spoliator — a plunderer
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- stalworth — stalwart.
- stavropol — a territory of the Russian Federation in Europe, N of the Caucasus. 29,600 sq. mi. (76,960 sq. km).
- 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.
- strap-oil — a beating
- strobilar — of or relating to a strobila
- strokable — appearing pleasant to stroke
- suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
- swordtail — any of several small, brightly colored, viviparous, freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, native to Central America, having the lower part of the caudal fin elongated into a swordlike structure: often kept in aquariums.
- tailoress — a female tailor
- taylorism — 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.
- teleosaur — a type of crocodile from the Jurassic period
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- 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.