9-letter words containing a, r, o, n, s
- sörenstam — Annika (ˈænɪka). born 1970, Swedish golfer; winner of the US Women's Open (1995, 1996, 2006), the LPGA Championship (2003, 2004, 2005), and the British Women's Open (2003)
- sortation — the process or result of sorting things, especially computationally or mechanically.
- soundcard — A soundcard is a piece of equipment which can be put into a computer so that the computer can produce music or other sounds.
- span roof — a roof having two slopes of equal breadth and pitch meeting at a common ridge.
- spiration — the act of breathing
- sporangia — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- sporozoan — any parasitic spore-forming protozoan of the phylum (or class) Sporozoa, several species of which, as plasmodia, cause malaria.
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- sportsman — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- squadrone — a former Scottish political party, active in the last parliament of Scotland before the Act of Union, in the early 18th century
- stand for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
- stannator — a member of the old Cornish parliament known as the Stannary Parliament
- starstone — a precious stone which has been cut in such a way that it reflects light in a starlike pattern
- stationer — a person who sells the materials used in writing, as paper, pens, pencils, and ink.
- stinkaroo — something markedly inferior in quality: a stinkaroo of a motion picture.
- stoneware — a hard, opaque, vitrified ceramic ware.
- stornoway — a city in NW Scotland, in the Hebrides.
- stramazon — a downward fencing stroke
- stratonic — of or relating to an army
- strayhorn — William ("Billy") 1915–67, U.S. jazz pianist and composer: collaborator with Duke Ellington.
- striation — striated condition or appearance.
- strongarm — (processor) A collaborative project between Digital Equipment Corporation and Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. (ARM) announced on 1995-02-06 licensing the ARM RISC architecture to Digital Semiconductor for the development of high-performance, low power microprocessors. The StrongARM family of 32-bit RISC products developed under the agreement are faster versions of the existing ARM processors with a somewhat different instruction set. They are targetted at applications such as next-generation personal digital assistants with improved user interfaces and communications; interactive television and set-top products; video games and multimedia edutainment systems with realistic imaging, motion and sound; and digital imaging, including low cost digital image capture and photo-quality scanning and printing. The StrongARM family has limited software compatibility with the ARM6, ARM7 and ARM8 families due to its separate caches for data and instructions which causes self-modifying code to fail. The SA-110 is the first member of the family.
- strongman — a person who performs remarkable feats of strength, as in a circus.
- strontian — strontianite.
- subcantor — a deputy to a cantor
- subnormal — below the normal; less than or inferior to the normal: a subnormal amount of rain.
- succorant — the act of seeking out affectionate care and social support.
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- 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.
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.
- swordsman — a person who uses or is skilled in the use of a sword.
- synkaryon — a nucleus formed by the fusion of two preexisting nuclei.
- thorshavn — a city in and the capital of the Faeroe Islands, in the N Atlantic.
- 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.
- tornadoes — a localized, violently destructive windstorm occurring over land, especially in the Middle West, and characterized by a long, funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris. Compare waterspout (def 3).
- torsional — the act of twisting.
- transcode — (language) An early system on the Ferut computer.
- transform — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transonic — close to the speed of propagation of sound; moving at 700–780 miles per hour (1127–1255 km/h) at sea level.
- transport — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
- transpose — to change the relative position, order, or sequence of; cause to change places; interchange: to transpose the third and fourth letters of a word.
- 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
- trisagion — an ancient hymn
- tyrannous — tyrannical.
- unaroused — to stir to action or strong response; excite: to arouse a crowd; to arouse suspicion.
- uniparous — Zoology. producing only one egg or offspring at a time.
- uniramous — Biology. having one branch.