9-letter words containing n, i, e, r, s, t
- spinneret — an organ or part by means of which a spider, insect larva, or the like spins a silky thread for its web or cocoon.
- splintery — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- springlet — a small spring of water.
- sprintnet — A public packet-switched network using the ITU-T X.25 protocols, that provides dial-up access to services like Delphi, Portal, GEnie and Compuserve.
- starshine — starlight
- stationer — a person who sells the materials used in writing, as paper, pens, pencils, and ink.
- steenkirk — a type of cravat worn in a loose or disorderly manner
- steerling — a young or small steer
- steinberg — Saul, 1914–1999, U.S. painter, cartoonist, and illustrator; born in Romania.
- steinkern — the fossilized outline of a hollow organic structure, as a skull or a mollusk shell, formed when mud or sediment consolidated within the structure and the structure itself disintegrated or dissolved.
- 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.
- sterilant — a sterilizing agent.
- sternitic — relating to the sternite
- sticheron — a liturgical hymn sung in the Orthodox Church
- stiffener — a person or thing that stiffens.
- stingaree — a stingray.
- stinkeroo — a bad or contemptible person or thing
- 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
- streaking — a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud.
- streaming — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- streeking — the act of stretching one's limbs, as on awakening or by exercise.
- 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)
- stressing — importance attached to a thing: to lay stress upon good manners. Synonyms: significance, meaning, emphasis, consequence; weight, value, worth.
- stridency — making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges.
- stringent — rigorously binding or exacting; strict; severe: stringent laws.
- subentire — (of parts of plants) slightly indented
- superthin — extremely thin
- sustainer — a person or thing that sustains.
- swingtree — a whiffletree.
- syncretic — the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion.
- synergist — Physiology, Medicine/Medical. a body organ, medicine, etc., that cooperates with another or others to produce or enhance an effect.
- tardiness — late; behind time; not on time: How tardy were you today?
- tarnished — metal: discolored
- tartiness — the condition or characteristic of being tarty
- tearstain — a mark or wet streak left by tears.
- tenebrism — a school, style, or method of painting, adopted chiefly by 17th-century Spanish and Neapolitan painters, esp Caravaggio, characterized by large areas of dark colours, usually relieved with a shaft of light
- tensioner — an instrument for adding tension
- terminism — philosophical nominalism
- terminist — someone who accepts the doctrine of terminism
- the rains — the season of heavy rainfall, esp in the tropics
- threshing — to separate the grain or seeds from (a cereal plant or the like) by some mechanical means, as by beating with a flail or by the action of a threshing machine.
- tiredness — fatigue
- train set — a toy train, together with the track that it runs on, toy station, etc
- trainshed — (in a railroad station) a shelter completely covering railroad tracks and their adjoining platforms.
- tramlines — streetcar track
- transient — not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory.
- transited — the act or fact of passing across or through; passage from one place to another.
- transpire — to occur; happen; take place.
- trasimeno — a lake in central Italy, in Umbria near Perugia: Romans defeated by Hannibal 217 b.c. About 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km).