9-letter words containing a, n, t, e, l
- reinflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- reinstall — to place in position or connect for service or use: to install a heating system; to install software on a computer.
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- reluctant — unwilling; disinclined: a reluctant candidate.
- remnantal — of or relating to a remnant
- rentaller — a tenant who rents property, usually for life, on very favourable terms
- repellant — causing distaste or aversion; repulsive.
- replicant — an android that is indistinguishable from a human being
- reptilian — belonging or pertaining to the Reptilia.
- resultant — that results; following as a result or consequence.
- retailing — the sale of goods to ultimate consumers, usually in small quantities (opposed to wholesale).
- retinular — of or relating to the retinula
- revalenta — a mixture of flour made from lentils and barley
- rosenthal — Jean, 1912–69, U.S. theatrical lighting designer.
- rotaplane — an aircraft that derives its lift from freely revolving rotor blades
- saint leo — Saint (Bruno) 1002–54, German ecclesiastic: pope 1049–54.
- saliently — prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.
- salt mine — a mine from which salt is excavated.
- saltiness — tasting of or containing salt; saline.
- sciential — having knowledge.
- sectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- segmental — of, relating to, or characterized by segments or segmentation.
- selectman — (in most New England states) one of a board of town officers chosen to manage certain public affairs.
- self-want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
- serotinal — pertaining to or occurring in late summer.
- sextantal — pertaining to the weight standard that determined the worth of Roman coins
- sexvalent — hexavalent or having a valency of six
- simmental — one of a large breed of cattle, yellowish-brown to red and white, originally of Switzerland, used for milk and beef and as a draft animal.
- slabstone — a paving stone in the form of a slab; flagstone
- slantwise — aslant; obliquely.
- slave ant — an ant taken as a larva or pupa by ants of another species and becoming a working member of the captor colony.
- 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.
- spinulate — having a spine or spines
- stableman — a person who works in a stable.
- stag line — the men at a social gathering who are not accompanied by a date or dancing partner.
- stainless — having no stain; spotless.
- staleness — not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
- steel pan — steel drum.
- stelazine — a synthetic drug, C21H24F3N3S·2HCl, used as a tranquilizer in treating certain mental disorders
- sterilant — a sterilizing agent.
- stolonate — having stolons; developing from a stolon.
- stonewall — to engage in stonewalling.
- strangely — 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).
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
- subaltern — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
- sublunate — almost crescent-shaped
- submental — situated beneath the chin