9-letter words containing a, y, r, s
- stewardry — the office or position of a steward or overseer
- stockyard — an enclosure with pens, sheds, etc., connected with a slaughterhouse, railroad, market, etc., for the temporary housing of cattle, sheep, swine, or horses.
- stornoway — a city in NW Scotland, in the Hebrides.
- story arc — a continuing storyline in a television series that gradually unfolds over several episodes
- strangely — unusual, extraordinary, or curious; odd; queer: a strange remark to make.
- strangury — painful urination in which the urine is emitted drop by drop owing to muscle spasms of the urethra or urinary bladder.
- strayhorn — William ("Billy") 1915–67, U.S. jazz pianist and composer: collaborator with Duke Ellington.
- strayling — a stray
- streamway — the bed of a stream.
- strychnia — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- styrofoam — Styrofoam is a very light, plastic substance, used especially to make containers.
- subahdary — the position or office of subadar
- sublunary — situated beneath the moon or between the earth and the moon.
- substylar — of or relating to a substyle
- summarily — in a prompt or direct manner; immediately; straightaway.
- sumptuary — pertaining to, dealing with, or regulating expense or expenditure.
- superably — capable of being overcome; surmountable.
- superbaby — an infant whose mental development and language acquisition are stimulated and presumably accelerated by certain teaching methods.
- supremacy — the state of being supreme.
- sur-royal — crown antler.
- surreally — of, relating to, or characteristic of surrealism, an artistic and literary style; surrealistic.
- surrogacy — the state of being a surrogate or surrogate mother.
- swordplay — the action or technique of wielding a sword; fencing.
- sybaritic — (usually lowercase) pertaining to or characteristic of a sybarite; characterized by or loving luxury or sensuous pleasure: to wallow in sybaritic splendor.
- syktyvkar — an autonomous republic in the NW Russian Federation in Europe. 145,221 sq. mi. (376,122 sq. km). Capital: Syktyvkar.
- syllabary — a list or catalog of syllables.
- symmetral — relating to symmetry
- sympatric — originating in or occupying the same geographical area.
- synaxaria — a summary of the life of a saint or of the particulars of a feast, read at the orthros.
- synedrial — relating to a synedrion
- synkaryon — a nucleus formed by the fusion of two preexisting nuclei.
- synsacrum — a dorsal ridge of bone in the pelvic region of birds, formed by the fusion of certain thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and caudal vertebrae.
- syr darya — a river in central Asia, flowing NW from the Tien Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzstan, through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to the Aral Sea. 1300 miles (2100 km) long.
- syringeal — of, relating to, or connected with the syrinx.
- tarkovsky — Andrei (ˈɑndrej). 1932–86, Soviet film director, whose films include Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1971), Nostalgia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986)
- 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.
- theocrasy — a mixture of religious forms and deities by worshipers.
- thursdays — on Thursdays; every Thursday.
- tsaritsyn — a former name of Volgograd.
- tyndareus — the husband of Leda and father of Clytemnestra and Castor.
- tyranness — a woman who behaves in a tyrannical manner
- tyrannies — arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority. Synonyms: despotism, absolutism, dictatorship.
- tyrannise — to exercise absolute power or control, especially cruelly or oppressively (often followed by over).
- tyrannous — tyrannical.
- unsavoury — not savory; tasteless or insipid: an unsavory meal.
- unsprayed — not sprayed with a chemical
- variously — of different kinds, as two or more things; differing one from another: Various experiments have not proved his theory.
- vestryman — a member of a church vestry.
- visionary — given to or characterized by fanciful, not presently workable, or unpractical ideas, views, or schemes: a visionary enthusiast.
- vrystater — a native inhabitant of the Free State, esp one who is White