9-letter words containing n, o, r, i, s
- shipowner — a person who owns a ship or ships.
- shoreline — the line where shore and water meet.
- sigmatron — a machine for generating X-rays
- sign over — a token; indication.
- signatory — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
- signboard — a board bearing a sign.
- signore's — a conventional Italian term of address or title of respect for a married woman, either used separately or prefixed to the name.
- signorial — relating to a signoria
- signorina — a conventional Italian term of address or title of respect for a girl or unmarried woman, either used separately or prefixed to the name.
- signorino — a conventional Italian title of respect for a young man.
- singapore — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- sinistro- — of, at, or toward the left
- skijoring — a sport in which a skier is pulled over snow or ice, generally by a horse.
- snow ring — basket (def 8).
- snow tire — an automobile tire with a deep tread or protruding studs to give increased traction on snow or ice.
- 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.
- soaringly — in a soaring manner
- soft iron — iron that has a low carbon content and is easily magnetized and demagnetized with a small hysteresis loss
- soilborne — carried in soil
- soldering — any of various alloys fused and applied to the joint between metal objects to unite them without heating the objects to the melting point.
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- solferino — a village in SE Lombardy, in N Italy: battle 1859. 1811.
- song-bird — a bird that sings.
- 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
- sopranino — a musical instrument, as a saxophone or recorder, that is a pitch higher than the soprano instrument of its class.
- sorbonist — a student or graduate of the Sorbonne.
- sore shin — a disease of plant seedlings, characterized by stem cankers that girdle the stem near the soil line, caused by any of several fungi, especially Rhizoctonia solani.
- sorriness — feeling regret, compunction, sympathy, pity, etc.: to be sorry to leave one's friends; to be sorry for a remark; to be sorry for someone in trouble.
- sorrowing — experiencing or expressing sorrow
- sortation — the process or result of sorting things, especially computationally or mechanically.
- sortition — the casting or drawing of lots.
- sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- spiniform — like a thorn or spine
- spinproof — (of an airplane) designed so as to be highly resistant to a tailspin.
- spiration — the act of breathing
- sporangia — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- sporeling — Botany, Mycology. the young individual developed from a spore.
- springbok — a gazelle, Antidorcas marsupialis, of southern Africa, noted for its habit of springing into the air when alarmed.
- 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.