9-letter words containing a, r, i, o, s, t
- shorthair — a domestic cat with a coat of short, thick hair; a cat of a shorthaired breed.
- sibilator — someone who whistles
- sigmatron — a machine for generating X-rays
- signatory — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
- simulator — a person or thing that simulates.
- 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.
- sonicator — a device for treatment with ultrasound
- sorediate — having soredia
- sortation — the process or result of sorting things, especially computationally or mechanically.
- spiration — the act of breathing
- spoliator — a plunderer
- stair rod — a rod for holding a stair carpet in place against the bottom of a riser.
- stairfoot — the area at the foot of a flight of stairs
- stairwork — unseen plotting
- stationer — a person who sells the materials used in writing, as paper, pens, pencils, and ink.
- 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.
- stinkaroo — something markedly inferior in quality: a stinkaroo of a motion picture.
- stirabout — porridge.
- strap-oil — a beating
- stratonic — of or relating to an army
- striation — striated condition or appearance.
- strobilar — of or relating to a strobila
- strontian — strontianite.
- suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.
- 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.
- teratosis — teratism (def 2).
- timisoara — a city in W Romania.
- timor sea — an arm of the Indian Ocean, between Timor and NW Australia.
- togavirus — a virus belonging to the Togaviridae family and which usually affects birds and mammals rather than humans
- 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.
- tovarisch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- transonic — close to the speed of propagation of sound; moving at 700–780 miles per hour (1127–1255 km/h) at sea level.
- trasimeno — a lake in central Italy, in Umbria near Perugia: Romans defeated by Hannibal 217 b.c. About 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km).
- triclosan — a drug used to treat skin infections
- trifocals — glasses with trifocal lenses
- trigamous — of or relating to trigamy or a trigamist.
- trisagion — an ancient hymn
- tsavorite — a green variety of grossularite, found in Kenya in 1975 and used as a gem.
- visitator — an official visitor
- zoiatrics — the science of veterinary surgery