9-letter words containing d, r, o, s, t
- sandstorm — a windstorm, especially in a desert, that blows along great clouds of sand (distinguished from dust storm).
- scorodite — a green or brownish mineral containing iron and aluminium
- short-day — requiring a short photoperiod.
- shorthand — a method of rapid handwriting using simple strokes, abbreviations, or symbols that designate letters, words, or phrases (distinguished from longhand).
- shorthead — a brachycephalic person.
- siderotic — a disease of the lungs caused by inhaling iron or other metallic particles.
- snowdrift — a mound or bank of snow driven together by the wind.
- sodbuster — a farmer who works the soil.
- soft drug — a drug, usually illicit, that does not produce significant psychological or physical dependence.
- softboard — a soft, porous particle board.
- sorediate — having soredia
- sort code — branch number of a bank
- southward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
- sportsdom — the world of professional and amateur competitive sports.
- spot card — spot (def 10b).
- stair rod — a rod for holding a stair carpet in place against the bottom of a riser.
- stand for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
- starboard — the right-hand side of or direction from a vessel or aircraft, facing forward.
- 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.
- stevedore — a firm or individual engaged in the loading or unloading of a vessel.
- stockyard — an enclosure with pens, sheds, etc., connected with a slaughterhouse, railroad, market, etc., for the temporary housing of cattle, sheep, swine, or horses.
- stonkered — to hit hard; knock unconscious.
- stoppered — a person or thing that stops.
- storecard — A storecard is a plastic card that you use to buy goods on credit from a particular store or group of stores.
- storewide — applying to all the merchandise or all the departments within a store: the annual storewide clearance sale.
- stormbird — any bird of several species of black, white, or grey seabirds belonging to the order Procellariiformes
- stourhead — a Palladian mansion near Mere in Wiltshire: built (1722) for Henry Hoare; famous for its landscaped gardens laid out (1741) by Flitcroft
- strafford — 1st Earl of (Thomas Wentworth) 1593–1641, English statesman: chief adviser of Charles I of England.
- strappado — an old form of punishment or torture in which the victim, with arms bound behind, was raised from the ground by a rope fastened to the wrists, abruptly released, then arrested with a painful jerk just before reaching the ground.
- stratford — a town in SW Connecticut, near Bridgeport: Shakespeare theater.
- stretford — an industrial town in NW England, in Trafford unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 42 103 (2001)
- strophoid — a plane curve generated by the loci of points p and pprime; on a straight line that intersects the y-axis at a point n and the minus x-axis at a fixed point q, such that pn = npprime; = on, as on changes, where o is the origin. Equation: y 2 = x 2 (x + a)/(a − x).
- strouding — a woolly material used to make strouds or blankets
- studhorse — a stallion kept for breeding.
- subeditor — a subordinate or junior editor.
- subtorrid — subtropical (def 2).
- swordtail — any of several small, brightly colored, viviparous, freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, native to Central America, having the lower part of the caudal fin elongated into a swordlike structure: often kept in aquariums.
- the lords — the House of Lords in the British Parliament
- the sword — violence, warfare
- theorised — to form a theory or theories.
- threshold — the sill of a doorway.
- top-dress — to manure (land) on the surface.
- top-sider — a casual shoe, often made of canvas, having a nonskid rubber sole
- 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).
- touristed — busy with tourists
- tournedos — small slices of fillet of beef, round and thick, served with a variety of sauces and garnished.
- transcode — (language) An early system on the Ferut computer.
- trisodium — pertaining to molecules containing three sodium atoms.
- truss rod — a tie rod in a truss.