9-letter words containing a, t, e, n, d, s
- standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
- standpipe — a vertical pipe or tower into which water is pumped to obtain a required head.
- stationed — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- stavudine — an antiviral drug used to treat HIV infections
- stepdance — a dance in which the steps are the most important characteristic, specifically a solo dance with intricate, vigorous steps, often performed with the hands kept in the pockets.
- 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.
- sternward — toward the stern; astern.
- stonehand — a person who arranges type and imposes pages on an imposing stone
- strangled — A strangled voice or cry sounds unclear because the throat muscles of the person speaking or crying are tight.
- 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)
- suntanned — having a suntan: suntanned strollers on the boardwalk.
- sustained — to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
- sweatband — a band lining the inside of a hat or cap to protect it against sweat from the head.
- syndicate — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
- tanalised — having been treated with the trademarked timber preservative Tanalith
- tardiness — late; behind time; not on time: How tardy were you today?
- tarnished — metal: discolored
- the sudan — a region stretching across Africa south of the Sahara and north of the tropical zone: inhabited chiefly by Negroid tribes rather than Arabs
- toadstone — any of various stones or stonelike objects, formerly supposed to have been formed in the head or body of a toad, worn as jewels or amulets.
- 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).
- tradesman — a person engaged in trade.
- trainshed — (in a railroad station) a shelter completely covering railroad tracks and their adjoining platforms.
- transcend — to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed: to transcend the limits of thought; kindness transcends courtesy.
- transcode — (language) An early system on the Ferut computer.
- transduce — to convert (energy) from one form into another.
- transited — the act or fact of passing across or through; passage from one place to another.
- tyndareus — the husband of Leda and father of Clytemnestra and Castor.
- undercast — Mining. a crossing of two passages, as airways, dug at the same level so that one descends to pass beneath the other without any opening into it. Compare overcast (def 9).
- unroasted — not roasted or cooked over dry heat
- unsaluted — not saluted; not addressed
- unscathed — not scathed; unharmed; uninjured: She survived the accident unscathed.
- unslanted — to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
- unstaffed — a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
- unstained — not stained or spotted; unsoiled.
- unstalked — without a stalk or stalks.
- unstamped — not having a postage stamp affixed
- unstarred — not denoted with a star
- wasteland — land that is uncultivated or barren.