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9-letter words containing l, e, t, o, s

  • septimole — a group of seven musical notes to be played in the same space of time as either four or six
  • serotinal — pertaining to or occurring in late summer.
  • set loose — to make free; release
  • settle on — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
  • shell out — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
  • shit-hole — a very bad place; a disgusting place
  • shootable — suitable for being shot
  • short leg — a fielding position on the leg side near the batsman's wicket
  • shot hole — a condition in plants in which small, rounded spots drop out of the leaves, appearing as if the leaves were riddled by shot, resulting from infection or injury.
  • shoutline — a line of text in an advertisement made prominent to catch attention
  • sighthole — a hole, as on a quadrant, through which to see or to sight.
  • siltstone — a very fine-grained sandstone, mainly consolidated silt.
  • simpleton — an ignorant, foolish, or silly person.
  • singleton — a person or thing occurring singly, especially an individual set apart from others.
  • slabstone — a paving stone in the form of a slab; flagstone
  • sleep out — live-out.
  • sleep-out — live-out.
  • sleepcoat — a lightweight, knee-length garment for sleep or lounging, styled like a pajama top and having a sash.
  • slow time — standard time.
  • smell out — dog: detect by sniffing
  • socialite — a socially prominent person.
  • sociolect — a variety of a language used by a particular social group; a social dialect.
  • soft lens — a nonrigid contact lens made of porous plastic, having a high water content that is replenished from eye surface moisture.
  • soft line — a position or policy, as in politics, that is moderate and flexible.
  • soft sell — gentle persuasion to buy sth
  • soft-sell — to promote (a product, service, etc.) using indirect or gentle persuasion: an advertising campaign to soft-sell a new perfume.
  • solemnity — the state or character of being solemn; earnestness; gravity; impressiveness: the solemnity of a state funeral.
  • solenette — a small European sole, Buglossidium luteum, up to 13 cm (5 in.) in length; not caught commercially
  • soleplate — a plate upon which studding is erected.
  • soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
  • solicited — to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.
  • 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.
  • solutrean — Archaeology. of or designating an Upper Paleolithic European culture c18,000–16,000 b.c., characterized by the making of stone projectile points and low-relief stone sculptures.
  • solvently — able to pay all just debts.
  • somnolent — sleepy; drowsy.
  • sootflake — a smudge or speck of soot
  • sortilege — the drawing of lots for divination; divination by lot.
  • soul mate — a person with whom one has a strong affinity, shared values and tastes, and often a romantic bond: I married my soul mate; you don't get much luckier than that.
  • soustelle — Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1912–90, French anthropologist and government official.
  • southerly — a wind that blows from the south.
  • southwell — Saint Robert. ?1561–95, English poet and Roman Catholic martyr, who was imprisoned, tortured, and executed for his Jesuit activities. His best-known poem is 'The Burning Babe'
  • spell out — to name, write, or otherwise give the letters, in order, of (a word, syllable, etc.): Did I spell your name right?
  • spilosite — a form of slate
  • splotches — a large, irregular spot; blot; stain; blotch.
  • sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
  • sportless — without any sport
  • sporulate — to produce spores.
  • spot line — a rope or wire hung from a specific place on the gridiron for flying a piece of scenery that could not be flied by the existing battens.
  • spot-weld — to weld (two pieces of metal) together in a small area or spot by the application of heat and pressure.
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