9-letter words containing d, i, e, r, s
- siegfried — (in the Nibelungenlied) the son of Sigmund and Sieglinde and the husband of Kriemhild. He kills the dragon Fafnir, acquires the treasure of the Nibelungs, wins Brünnhilde for Gunther, and is finally killed by Hagen at the behest of Brünnhilde, whom he had once promised to marry: corresponds to the Sigurd of the Volsunga Saga. Compare Brünnhilde.
- sit under — to be seated on the right of (the player)
- skim-read — to read quickly and superficially, in order to pick up the important or significant details
- skittered — to go, run, or glide lightly or rapidly.
- skybridge — Also called skywalk. a bridgelike structure for pedestrians built to link one building with another over a public alley or street.
- slipdress — a style of sleeveless dress with thin shoulder straps, resembling a slip.
- slithered — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- snakebird — anhinga.
- snickered — to laugh in a half-suppressed, indecorous or disrespectful manner.
- soldering — any of various alloys fused and applied to the joint between metal objects to unite them without heating the objects to the melting point.
- soldierly — of, like, or befitting a soldier.
- sorediate — having soredia
- spermatid — Cell Biology. one of the cells that result from the meiotic divisions of a spermatocyte and mature into spermatozoa.
- spiderish — relating to or resembling a spider
- spiderman — a person who erects the steel structure of a building
- spiderweb — to cover with a spider web or fine lines resembling a spider web.
- spikenard — an aromatic, Indian plant, Nardostachys jatamansi, of the valerian family, believed to be the nard of the ancients.
- spiralled — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- sporicide — a substance or preparation for killing spores.
- sporidesm — a multicellular group of spores
- squiredom — the squirearchy.
- stairhead — the top of a staircase; top landing.
- steerhide — the hide of a steer.
- stellerid — a starfish belonging to the class Asteroidea and having a star-shaped body
- 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.
- 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.
- stickered — a person or thing that sticks.
- storewide — applying to all the merchandise or all the departments within a store: the annual storewide clearance sale.
- 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)
- stridency — making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges.
- subeditor — a subordinate or junior editor.
- subperiod — a subdivision of a time period
- sun-dried — dried in the sun, as bricks or raisins.
- supermind — an exceptional mind
- superwide — a wide-angle camera lens
- surfeited — excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.
- surprised — to strike or occur to with a sudden feeling of wonder or astonishment, as through unexpectedness: Her beauty surprised me.
- surreined — (of horse) ridden too much
- swineherd — a person who tends swine.
- synedrial — relating to a synedrion
- synedrion — an assembly of judges or representatives
- tardiness — late; behind time; not on time: How tardy were you today?
- tarnished — metal: discolored
- tehsildar — person who administrates a tehsil
- the-birds — a comedy (414 b.c.) by Aristophanes.
- theorised — to form a theory or theories.
- 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.
- tiredness — fatigue
- top-sider — a casual shoe, often made of canvas, having a nonskid rubber sole
- touristed — busy with tourists