9-letter words containing n, o, s, e, d
- semiround — having one surface that is round and another that is flat.
- send down — to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.
- senna pod — a pod of any of various tropical plants of the leguminous genus Cassia, used in making laxatives
- serranoid — resembling or related to the sea bass family Serranidae.
- sevenfold — comprising seven parts or members.
- shakedown — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
- side tone — sound diverted from a telephone microphone to the earpiece so that a speaker hears his own voice at the same level and position as that of the respondent
- simonides — 556?–468? b.c, Greek poet.
- singledom — the state of being unmarried or not involved in a long-term relationship
- snakewood — the heavy, dark-red wood of a South American tree, Piratinera guianensis, used for decorative veneers, musical instrument bows, etc.
- snockered — drunk; intoxicated.
- snookered — a variety of pool played with 15 red balls and 6 balls of colors other than red, in which a player must shoot one of the red balls, each with a point value of 1, into a pocket before shooting at one of the other balls, with point values of from 2 to 7.
- snotnosed — impudent; insolent; snotty.
- snowblade — one of a pair of short skis used without poles
- snowed in — If you are snowed in, you cannot go anywhere because of heavy snow.
- snowfield — a large and relatively permanent expanse of snow.
- snowslide — an avalanche consisting largely or entirely of snow.
- socked in — to strike or hit hard.
- 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.
- solenodon — either of two insectivores of the genus Solenodon, resembling a large shrew and having small eyes, a long and pointy snout, and a scaly tail, including the coarse-haired, reddish-brown to grayish-black S. paradoxus of Hispaniola and the finer-haired, usually darker S. cubanus of Cuba: S. paradoxus is an endangered species; S. cubanus is rare and possibly endangered.
- solidness — having three dimensions (length, breadth, and thickness), as a geometrical body or figure.
- soundbite — short statement, quotation
- soundless — unfathomable; very deep.
- soundness — free from injury, damage, defect, disease, etc.; in good condition; healthy; robust: a sound heart; a sound mind.
- spelldown — a spelling competition that begins with all the contestants standing and that ends when all but one, the winner, have been required to sit down due to a specified number of misspellings.
- sphendone — an ancient Greek headband
- sphenodon — tuatara.
- splendour — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- spodumene — a mineral, lithium aluminum silicate, LiAlSi 2 O 6 , occurring in prismatic crystals, transparent varieties being used as gems.
- sponsored — a person who vouches or is responsible for a person or thing.
- spoon-fed — fed with a spoon.
- squadrone — a former Scottish political party, active in the last parliament of Scotland before the Act of Union, in the early 18th century
- staminode — a sterile or abortive stamen.
- standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
- stationed — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- step down — serving to reduce or decrease voltage: a step-down transformer.
- step-down — serving to reduce or decrease voltage: a step-down transformer.
- stew pond — a fishpond or fishtank
- stonehand — a person who arranges type and imposes pages on an imposing stone
- stonkered — to hit hard; knock unconscious.
- subdeacon — a member of the clerical order next below that of deacon.
- summonsed — an authoritative command, message, or signal by which one is summoned.
- sundowner — Chiefly British. an alcoholic drink taken after completing the day's work, usually at sundown.
- swinehood — the quality or condition of a swine
- synedrion — an assembly of judges or representatives
- tendinous — of the nature of or resembling a tendon.
- the sound — a strait between SW Sweden and Zealand (Denmark), linking the Kattegat with the Baltic: busy shipping lane; spanned by a bridge in 2000. Length of the strait: 113 km (70 miles). Narrowest point: 5 km (3 miles)
- the-downs — a range of low ridges in S and SW England.
- toadstone — any of various stones or stonelike objects, formerly supposed to have been formed in the head or body of a toad, worn as jewels or amulets.
- tornadoes — a localized, violently destructive windstorm occurring over land, especially in the Middle West, and characterized by a long, funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris. Compare waterspout (def 3).