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9-letter words containing a, n, s, e, r

  • sparteine — a bitter, poisonous, liquid alkaloid obtained from certain species of broom, especially Cytisus scoparius, used in medicine to stimulate the heart and also the uterine muscles in childbirth.
  • spear gun — a device for shooting a barbed missile under water, usually by means of gas under pressure, a strong rubber band, or a powerful spring.
  • spearmint — an aromatic herb, Mentha spicata, having lance-shaped leaves used for flavoring.
  • speranski — Mikhail Mikhailovich (mixɑˈil). 1772–1839, Russian statesman, chief adviser (1807–12) to Alexander I. His greatest achievement was the codification of Russian law (begun 1826)
  • spiderman — a person who erects the steel structure of a building
  • spikenard — an aromatic, Indian plant, Nardostachys jatamansi, of the valerian family, believed to be the nard of the ancients.
  • spinnaker — a large, usually triangular sail carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind or when the wind is abaft the beam.
  • sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
  • squadrone — a former Scottish political party, active in the last parliament of Scotland before the Act of Union, in the early 18th century
  • standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
  • starshine — starlight
  • starstone — a precious stone which has been cut in such a way that it reflects light in a starlike pattern
  • state-run — controlled by the government
  • stathenry — the electrostatic unit of inductance, equivalent to 8.9876 × 10 11 henries and equal to the inductance of a circuit in which an electromotive force of one statvolt is produced by a current in the circuit which varies at the rate of one statampere per second.
  • stationer — a person who sells the materials used in writing, as paper, pens, pencils, and ink.
  • stauncher — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
  • stavanger — a seaport in SW Norway.
  • steenbras — a variety of sea bream, Lithognathos lithognathos, valued as a food fish in South Africa
  • steersman — a person who steers a ship; helmsman.
  • steradian — a solid angle at the center of a sphere subtending a section on the surface equal in area to the square of the radius of the sphere. Abbreviation: sr.
  • sterilant — a sterilizing agent.
  • sternebra — a bone or segment of the breastbone or sternum
  • sternfast — a rope for securing a boat at stern to another boat, dock, or buoy
  • sternward — toward the stern; astern.
  • stingaree — a stingray.
  • stoneware — a hard, opaque, vitrified ceramic ware.
  • strangely — unusual, extraordinary, or curious; odd; queer: a strange remark to make.
  • strangest — unusual, extraordinary, or curious; odd; queer: a strange remark to make.
  • strangled — A strangled voice or cry sounds unclear because the throat muscles of the person speaking or crying are tight.
  • strangler — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
  • strangles — distemper1 (def 1b).
  • stranraer — a market town in SW Scotland, in W Dumfries and Galloway: fishing port with a ferry service to Northern Ireland. Pop: 10 851 (2001)
  • strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
  • 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)
  • subaltern — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
  • sublinear — of, consisting of, or using lines: linear design.
  • submarine — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
  • subneural — beneath or below a nerve
  • subwarden — an assistant to a warden, a deputy or subordinate warden
  • sudermann — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1857–1928, German dramatist and novelist.
  • sugarcane — a tall grass, Saccharum officinarum, of tropical and warm regions, having a stout, jointed stalk, and constituting the chief source of sugar.
  • sun cream — a chemical, usually in the form of a cream, applied to exposed skin to block out all or almost all of the ultraviolet rays of the sun
  • superbank — a bank that owns other banks; an overarching banking organization
  • supernate — a supernatant liquid
  • supernova — the explosion of a star, possibly caused by gravitational collapse, during which the star's luminosity increases by as much as 20 magnitudes and most of the star's mass is blown away at very high velocity, sometimes leaving behind an extremely dense core.
  • sustainer — a person or thing that sustains.
  • synedrial — relating to a synedrion
  • syringeal — of, relating to, or connected with the syrinx.
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