9-letter words containing l, e, t, i, r
- rubellite — a deep-red variety of tourmaline, used as a gem.
- rutilated — containing fine, embedded needles of rutile.
- salimeter — salinometer.
- saluretic — of or relating to a substance that promotes renal excretion of sodium and chloride ions.
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- scleritis — inflammation of the sclera.
- sclerotic — Also, scleral. Anatomy. of or relating to the sclera.
- sclerotin — an insoluble protein that serves to stiffen the chitin of the cuticle of arthropods.
- sectarial — distinguishing or differentiating a sect
- sectorial — of or relating to a sector.
- serialist — a writer of serials
- seriality — a serial layout or arrangement; the quality of taking place in series
- serotinal — pertaining to or occurring in late summer.
- serpulite — a fossilized calcareous tube of a serpula
- servility — slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
- shirtless — a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, usually lightweight and having a collar and a front opening.
- shrillest — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.
- silk tree — a tree, Albizia julibrissin, of the legume family, native to Asia, having pinnate leaves and plumelike pink flowers and widely cultivated as an ornamental.
- silvertip — grizzly bear.
- silvester — Sylvester II.
- skirtless — having, or wearing, no skirt
- skirtlike — resembling a skirt
- slaistery — resembling slaister
- slickster — a crafty and opportunistic or deceitful person; hustler; swindler.
- 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.
- slut-tier — of, resembling, or characteristic of a slut: slutty behavior.
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- solitaire — Also called patience. any of various games played by one person with one or more regular 52-card packs, part or all of which are usually dealt out according to a given pattern, the object being to arrange the cards in a predetermined manner.
- solutizer — any admixture to a substance for promoting or increasing its solubility or that of one or more of its components.
- sortilege — the drawing of lots for divination; divination by lot.
- sparticle — a hypothetical elementary particle thought to have been produced in the Big Bang
- spirituel — showing or having a refined and graceful mind or wit.
- spitteler — Carl [German kahrl] /German kɑrl/ (Show IPA), ("Felix Tandem") 1845–1924, Swiss poet, novelist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1919.
- splintery — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- splitters — a person or thing that splits.
- springlet — a small spring of water.
- stairless — without or not consisting of stairs
- stairlike — resembling stairs
- stairwell — the vertical shaft or opening containing a stairway.
- steerling — a young or small steer
- stellerid — a starfish belonging to the class Asteroidea and having a star-shaped body
- 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.
- sterilely — free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic: sterile surgical instruments.
- sterilise — to destroy microorganisms in or on, usually by bringing to a high temperature with steam, dry heat, or boiling liquid.
- sterility — free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic: sterile surgical instruments.
- sterilize — to destroy microorganisms in or on, usually by bringing to a high temperature with steam, dry heat, or boiling liquid.
- 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.
- storyline — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement