9-letter words containing o, n, s, t
- saoshyant — the World Savior who will come at the end of time.
- saponated — treated or combined with soap
- sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
- saskatoon — a city in S Saskatchewan, in SW Canada.
- satiation — to supply with anything to excess, so as to disgust or weary; surfeit.
- satinwood — the satiny wood of an East Indian tree, Chloroxylon swietenia, of the rue family, used especially for making furniture.
- satyricon — a satirical novel, interspersed with verse, written in the 1st century a.d. by Petronius, extant in fragments.
- saxitoxin — a powerful neurotoxin, C 1 0 H 1 7 N 7 O 4 , produced by the dinoflagellate Gonyaulax catenella, the causative agent of red tide.
- scalation — an arrangement of scales, as on a fish.
- scazontic — relating to or consisting of scazons
- sclerotin — an insoluble protein that serves to stiffen the chitin of the cuticle of arthropods.
- scotching — scutch (defs 2, 4).
- scotchman — Sometimes Offensive. Scotsman.
- scutcheon — escutcheon.
- 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.
- sectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- seduction — an act or instance of seducing, especially sexually.
- selection — an act or instance of selecting or the state of being selected; choice.
- 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.
- sensation — the operation or function of the senses; perception or awareness of stimuli through the senses.
- septation — a division between cavities or parts of an organism by partitions or septa
- 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.
- set point — tennis: point that will win a set
- settle on — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
- sextoness — a female sexton or the wife of a sexton
- shenstone — William, 1714–63, English poet.
- shogunate — the office or rule of a shogun.
- shootdown — the attack and destruction of an aircraft in flight.
- 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.
- shotpoint — A shotpoint is a place at the surface of the Earth where a seismic source is activated.
- shouldn't — Shouldn't is the usual spoken form of 'should not'.
- shoutline — a line of text in an advertisement made prominent to catch attention
- shut down — to put (a door, cover, etc.) in position to close or obstruct.
- sick note — proof of illness
- 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