9-letter words containing i, n, t, r, o
- snow-tire — an automobile tire with a deep tread or protruding studs to give increased traction on snow or ice.
- snowdrift — a mound or bank of snow driven together by the wind.
- soft iron — iron that has a low carbon content and is easily magnetized and demagnetized with a small hysteresis loss
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- sonicator — a device for treatment with ultrasound
- sooterkin — the mythical black afterbirth of Dutch women that was believed to result from their warming themselves on stoves
- sorbonist — a student or graduate of the Sorbonne.
- sortation — the process or result of sorting things, especially computationally or mechanically.
- sortition — the casting or drawing of lots.
- spiration — the act of breathing
- stationer — a person who sells the materials used in writing, as paper, pens, pencils, and ink.
- sticheron — a liturgical hymn sung in the Orthodox Church
- stillborn — dead when born.
- stinkaroo — something markedly inferior in quality: a stinkaroo of a motion picture.
- stinkeroo — a bad or contemptible person or thing
- stinkhorn — any of various rank-smelling, brown-capped mushrooms of the genus Phallus, especially P. impudicus.
- storyline — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- stratonic — of or relating to an army
- striation — striated condition or appearance.
- striction — the act of constricting.
- strolling — to walk leisurely as inclination directs; ramble; saunter; take a walk: to stroll along the beach.
- strongish — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- strontian — strontianite.
- strontium — a bivalent, metallic element whose compounds resemble those of calcium, found in nature only in the combined state, as in strontianite: used in fireworks, flares, and tracer bullets. Symbol: Sr; atomic weight: 87.62; atomic number: 38; specific gravity: 2.6.
- strouding — a woolly material used to make strouds or blankets
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.
- tailoring — a person whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes, especially suits, coats, and other outer garments.
- tambourin — a long narrow drum of Provence.
- tanorexic — obsessed with maintaining a permanent deep tan, esp through use of tanning machines
- tarantino — Quentin. born 1963, US film director and screenwriter, noted for violent quirky dramas including Reservoir Dogs (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1998), the two parts of Kill Bill (2003, 2004), Inglourious Basterds (2009), and Django Unchained (2012)
- tarnation — damnation; hell (used as a euphemism): Where in tarnation is that boy?
- tear into — to pull apart or in pieces by force, especially so as to leave ragged or irregular edges. Synonyms: rend, rip, rive. Antonyms: mend, repair, sew.
- tellurion — an apparatus for showing the manner in which the diurnal rotation and annual revolution of the earth and the obliquity of its axis produce the alternation of day and night and the changes of the seasons.
- tensioner — an instrument for adding tension
- tentorial — Anatomy. an extension of one of the membranes covering the cerebrum which, with the transverse fissure, separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum.
- tentorium — Anatomy. an extension of one of the membranes covering the cerebrum which, with the transverse fissure, separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum.
- terpenoid — a class of chemical compounds including all terpenes
- terpineol — any of several unsaturated, cyclic, tertiary alcohols having the formula C 10 H 18 O, occurring in nature in many essential oils or prepared synthetically: used chiefly in the manufacture of perfumes.
- thereinto — into that place or thing.
- thon buri — a city in S Thailand, near Bangkok.
- thorazine — chlorpromazine
- thornbill — any of various South American hummingbirds of the genera Chalcostigma, Ramphomicron, etc, having a thornlike bill
- thornbird — any of various small S American birds of the genus Phacellodomus
- thorndike — Ashley Horace, 1871–1933, U.S. literary historian and teacher.
- thornhill — Sir James. 1675–1734, English baroque painter. He is best known for decorating the Painted Hall, Greenwich Hospital (1708–27) and the interior of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral (1715–17)
- thornlike — resembling or having the characteristics of a thorn
- threnodic — a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, especially for the dead; dirge; funeral song.
- threonine — an essential amino acid, CH 3 CHOHCH(NH 2)COOH, obtained by the hydrolysis of proteins. Symbol: T. Abbreviation: Thr;
- throbbing — to beat with increased force or rapidity, as the heart under the influence of emotion or excitement; palpitate.