9-letter words containing a, r, t, s, n
- 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.
- songcraft — the art of songwriting
- sonicator — a device for treatment with ultrasound
- sonnetary — relating to sonnets
- 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.
- spartanic — (usually lowercase) suggestive of the ancient Spartans; sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere.
- 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.
- spearmint — an aromatic herb, Mentha spicata, having lance-shaped leaves used for flavoring.
- spiny rat — any of various ratlike rodents of the genus Echimys, inhabiting forests of Central and South America, most having bristly fur.
- spiration — the act of breathing
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- sportsman — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- stand for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- standards — something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.
- 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
- star sign — one of 12 signs of the Zodiac
- star turn — the leading performer or act in a play, review, film, or the like.
- staringly — in a staring way
- starshine — starlight
- starstone — a precious stone which has been cut in such a way that it reflects light in a starlike pattern
- startling — creating sudden alarm, surprise, or wonder; astonishing.
- 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.
- 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.
- straining — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
- stralsund — a seaport in NE Germany: a member of the medieval Hanseatic League; besieged by Wallenstein 1628.
- stramazon — a downward fencing stroke
- stranding — to form (a rope, cable, etc.) by twisting strands together.
- 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).
- strangury — painful urination in which the urine is emitted drop by drop owing to muscle spasms of the urethra or urinary bladder.
- 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)