9-letter words containing a, t, r, e, s, i
- staircase — a flight of stairs with its framework, banisters, etc., or a series of such flights.
- stairhead — the top of a staircase; top landing.
- stairless — without or not consisting of stairs
- stairlike — resembling stairs
- stairstep — a step in a staircase.
- stairwell — the vertical shaft or opening containing a stairway.
- stairwise — by steps or in the manner of steps
- starshine — starlight
- stationer — a person who sells the materials used in writing, as paper, pens, pencils, and ink.
- stepchair — a set of steps folding into a chair.
- 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.
- sterculia — any of various tropical trees of the genus Sterculia, of which some species are grown as ornamentals and some are the source of commercially valuable wood.
- sterilant — a sterilizing agent.
- 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.
- stiffware — a type of computer software that is difficult to modify
- stingaree — a stingray.
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
- strategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
- streaking — a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud.
- streaming — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- 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)
- striature — the way something is striated
- strikable — being cause for a strike, as by union members: strikable labor issues.
- sustainer — a person or thing that sustains.
- swartzite — a hydrous carbonate of calcium, magnesium, and uranium, occurring in green crystals: an ore of uranium.
- tailoress — a female tailor
- taperwise — in the manner of a taper
- tardiness — late; behind time; not on time: How tardy were you today?
- tarnished — metal: discolored
- tartiness — the condition or characteristic of being tarty
- tasimeter — a device for measuring small temperature changes. It depends on the changes of pressure resulting from expanding or contracting solids
- tearstain — a mark or wet streak left by tears.
- tearstrip — the part of packaging that may be easily torn to open it
- tehsildar — person who administrates a tehsil
- teiresias — a blind prophet, usually said to have been blinded because he saw Athena bathing, and then to have been awarded the gift of prophecy as a consolation for his blindness.
- teratosis — teratism (def 2).
- tessitura — the general pitch level or average range of a vocal or instrumental part in a musical composition: an uncomfortably high tessitura.
- testatrix — a woman who makes a will.
- the rains — the season of heavy rainfall, esp in the tropics
- theatrics — (used with a singular verb) the art of staging plays and other stage performances.
- therapist — a person trained in the use of physical methods, as exercises, heat treatments, etc., in treating or rehabilitating the sick or wounded or helping patients overcome physical defects.
- therapsid — any of various groups of mammallike reptiles of the extinct order Therapsida, inhabiting all continents from mid-Permian to late Triassic times, some of which were probably warm-blooded and directly ancestral to mammals.
- timesaver — (of methods, devices, etc.) reducing the time spent or required to do something.
- timor sea — an arm of the Indian Ocean, between Timor and NW Australia.
- trackside — located next to a railroad track.
- tragedies — a lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster: stunned by the tragedy of so many deaths.
- trailside — the side or border of a trail.
- train set — a toy train, together with the track that it runs on, toy station, etc
- trainshed — (in a railroad station) a shelter completely covering railroad tracks and their adjoining platforms.
- traitress — a woman who is a traitor.