9-letter words containing n, i, e, t, o
- sonnetize — to write sonnets.
- sooterkin — the mythical black afterbirth of Dutch women that was believed to result from their warming themselves on stoves
- soundbite — short statement, quotation
- spot fine — penalty paid immediately
- 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.
- staminode — a sterile or abortive stamen.
- stationed — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- stationer — a person who sells the materials used in writing, as paper, pens, pencils, and ink.
- stegnosis — a constriction of bodily pores, vessels, or ducts
- stegnotic — a medication that is constipating or astringent
- stenopaic — (of an optic device) having a narrow opening devised to improve eyesight by limiting obscurations
- stenopeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
- step into — enter
- sticheron — a liturgical hymn sung in the Orthodox Church
- stinkeroo — a bad or contemptible person or thing
- stockinet — Also, stockinet. a stretchy, machine-knitted fabric used for making undergarments, infants' wear, etc.
- stonefish — a tropical scorpion fish, Synanceja verrucosa, having dorsal-fin spines from which a deadly poison is discharged.
- stoniness — full of or abounding in stones or rock: a stony beach.
- storyline — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- suetonius — (Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus) a.d. 75–150, Roman historian.
- syntonize — to render syntonic; tune to the same frequency.
- tabellion — a scribe or subordinate notary
- tail cone — a cone-shaped component at the rear of a jet engine, rocket, or missile, usually serving as an exhaust pipe.
- tamoxifen — an antineoplastic drug, C 26 H 29 NO, that blocks the estrogen receptors on cancer cells, used in the treatment of breast cancer.
- tangolike — resembling or characteristic of tango music or dance
- tanorexic — obsessed with maintaining a permanent deep tan, esp through use of tanning machines
- 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.
- technikon — a technical college
- tectonics — the science or art of assembling, shaping, or ornamenting materials in construction; the constructive arts in general.
- tectonism — diastrophism (def 1).
- telepoint — a system providing a place where a cordless telephone can be connected to a telephone network
- tellinoid — relating to a tellin
- 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.
- tenacious — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
- tenaillon — an outwork shoring up a ravelin
- tendinous — of the nature of or resembling a tendon.
- tenonitis — tendinitis.
- tensional — the act of stretching or straining.
- tensioner — an instrument for adding tension
- tentation — a method of making mechanical adjustments or the like by a succession of trials.
- 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.
- testation — witness or evidence
- testimony — Law. the statement or declaration of a witness under oath or affirmation, usually in court.
- teutonism — the character, spirit, or culture of the Teutons, especially the Germans.
- teutonize — to make or become German or Germanic; Germanize
- tex point — (unit, text) The variant of the point used by TeX, equal to 0.3514598035 mm, or 1/72.27 inch.
- the koine — the Ancient Greek dialect that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely used throughout the E Mediterranean area in Roman times