9-letter words containing o, n, s, t, r
- resonator — anything that resonates.
- resorting — to sort or arrange (cards, papers, etc.) again.
- restation — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- rethondes — a village in N France near Compiègne: armistice ending World War I signed here 1918.
- retorsion — retaliation or reprisal by one state identical or similar to an act by an offending state, such as high tariffs or discriminating duties.
- retrusion — the act of moving a tooth backward.
- ring spot — any of various plant diseases caused by a virus or fungus and characterized by concentric rings of discoloration or necrosis on the leaves.
- robertson — Oscar Palmer ("The Big O") born 1938, U.S. basketball player.
- rogations — solemn supplications, esp in a form of ceremony prescribed by the Church
- root sign — the symbol √ placed before a number or quantity to indicate the extraction of a root, esp a square root. The value of a higher root is indicated by a raised digit in front of the symbol, as in 3√
- rosenthal — Jean, 1912–69, U.S. theatrical lighting designer.
- rosetting — abnormal leaf formation in a plant due to disease
- rosinante — the old, worn horse of Don Quixote.
- rousement — a stirring up of religious excitement
- routinism — adherence to routine.
- routinist — someone who lives by routine
- run short — having little length; not long.
- sanatoria — a hospital for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis or various nervous or mental disorders.
- sandstorm — a windstorm, especially in a desert, that blows along great clouds of sand (distinguished from dust storm).
- santorini — a Greek island in the S Aegean, in the Cyclades group. 30 sq. mi. (78 sq. km).
- sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
- satyricon — a satirical novel, interspersed with verse, written in the 1st century a.d. by Petronius, extant in fragments.
- sclerotin — an insoluble protein that serves to stiffen the chitin of the cuticle of arthropods.
- sea front — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- secretion — (in a cell or gland) the act or process of separating, elaborating, and releasing a substance that fulfills some function within the organism or undergoes excretion.
- semantron — a bar struck instead of a bell in an Orthodox church
- senhorita — a Portuguese term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- seniority — the state of being senior; priority of birth; superior age.
- seriation — the arrangement of a collection of artifacts into a chronological sequence.
- serotinal — pertaining to or occurring in late summer.
- serotines — a small Eurasian brown bat, Eptesicus serotinus.
- serotonin — a neurotransmitter, derived from tryptophan, that is involved in sleep, depression, memory, and other neurological processes.
- serration — serrated condition or form.
- shopfront — the area of a shop that faces street
- short con — any simple confidence game involving a relatively small amount of money.
- short run — happening or presented for a short period of time: a short-run motion picture.
- short ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- short-run — happening or presented for a short period of time: a short-run motion picture.
- shortgown — a short-skirted dress worn by women doing housework
- shorthand — a method of rapid handwriting using simple strokes, abbreviations, or symbols that designate letters, words, or phrases (distinguished from longhand).
- shorthorn — one of an English breed of red, white, or roan beef cattle, some having short horns and some naturally hornless.
- shortness — having little length; not long.
- sigmatron — a machine for generating X-rays
- signatory — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
- sinistro- — of, at, or toward the left
- snakeroot — any of various plants whose roots have been regarded as a remedy for snakebites, as the herb Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot) having a medicinal rhizome and rootlets, and the white-flowered Polygala senega (Seneca snakeroot) having a medicinal root.
- snow tire — an automobile tire with a deep tread or protruding studs to give increased traction on snow or ice.
- snow tyre — a motor vehicle tyre with deep treads and ridges to give improved grip on snow and 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.