9-letter words containing o, n, e, s
- snowscape — landscape covered with snow.
- snowslide — an avalanche consisting largely or entirely of snow.
- soapstone — a massive variety of talc with a soapy or greasy feel, used for hearths, washtubs, tabletops, carved ornaments, etc.
- soberness — not intoxicated or drunk.
- socked in — to strike or hit hard.
- 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.
- softbench — An IPSE from Hewlett-Packard.
- soften up — make softer
- soilborne — carried in soil
- soiliness — the state of being dirty
- sojourner — a temporary stay: during his sojourn in Paris.
- sokemanry — tenure of land subject to the soke of someone else.
- 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.
- solemnify — to make solemn: to solemnify an occasion with hymns and prayers.
- solemnity — the state or character of being solemn; earnestness; gravity; impressiveness: the solemnity of a state funeral.
- solemnize — to perform the ceremony of (marriage).
- solenette — a small European sole, Buglossidium luteum, up to 13 cm (5 in.) in length; not caught commercially
- 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.
- 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.
- solidness — having three dimensions (length, breadth, and thickness), as a geometrical body or figure.
- 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.
- something — Informal. a person or thing of some value or consequence: He is really something! This writer has something to say and she says it well.
- somnolent — sleepy; drowsy.
- sonnetary — relating to sonnets
- sonneteer — a composer of sonnets.
- sonnetize — to write sonnets.
- sonometer — audiometer.
- sonsonate — a city in SW El Salvador.
- sooterkin — the mythical black afterbirth of Dutch women that was believed to result from their warming themselves on stoves
- 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.
- sörenstam — Annika (ˈænɪka). born 1970, Swedish golfer; winner of the US Women's Open (1995, 1996, 2006), the LPGA Championship (2003, 2004, 2005), and the British Women's Open (2003)
- 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.
- sosnowiec — a city in S Poland.
- sostenuto — sustained or prolonged in the time value of the tones.
- 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.
- souteneur — a pimp
- sovenance — memory
- sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- soya bean — soybean.
- 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.
- spokesman — a person who speaks for another or for a group.