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9-letter words containing r, e, s, d, a

  • slanderer — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
  • smartweed — any of several weeds of the genus Polygonum, having a smarting, acrid juice.
  • smattered — to speak (a language, words, etc.) with superficial knowledge or understanding.
  • snakebird — anhinga.
  • sneakered — wearing sneakers
  • soda jerk — a person who prepares and serves sodas and ice cream at a soda fountain.
  • sorediate — having soredia
  • spaceward — going into space
  • spadework — preliminary or initial work, such as the gathering of data, on which further activity is to be based.
  • spar deck — the upper deck of a vessel, extending from stem to stern.
  • sparsedly — in a scattered manner
  • spattered — to scatter or dash in small particles or drops: The dog spattered mud on everyone when he shook himself.
  • spearhead — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
  • speedread — to read (something) very quickly
  • spermatid — Cell Biology. one of the cells that result from the meiotic divisions of a spermatocyte and mature into spermatozoa.
  • spiderman — a person who erects the steel structure of a building
  • spikenard — an aromatic, Indian plant, Nardostachys jatamansi, of the valerian family, believed to be the nard of the ancients.
  • spiralled — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
  • spraddled — to straddle.
  • spreathed — sore; chapped
  • squadrone — a former Scottish political party, active in the last parliament of Scotland before the Act of Union, in the early 18th century
  • staggered — to walk, move, or stand unsteadily.
  • stairhead — the top of a staircase; top landing.
  • stampeder — a sudden, frenzied rush or headlong flight of a herd of frightened animals, especially cattle or horses.
  • standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
  • steelyard — a portable balance with two unequal arms, the longer one having a movable counterpoise and the shorter one bearing a hook or the like for holding the object to be weighed.
  • steradian — a solid angle at the center of a sphere subtending a section on the surface equal in area to the square of the radius of the sphere. Abbreviation: sr.
  • sternward — toward the stern; astern.
  • steroidal — any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds, as the sterols, bile acids, and sex hormones, most of which have specific physiological action.
  • stewarded — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
  • stewardry — the office or position of a steward or overseer
  • storecard — A storecard is a plastic card that you use to buy goods on credit from a particular store or group of stores.
  • stourhead — a Palladian mansion near Mere in Wiltshire: built (1722) for Henry Hoare; famous for its landscaped gardens laid out (1741) by Flitcroft
  • straddler — to walk, stand, or sit with the legs wide apart; stand or sit astride.
  • stradella — Alessandro [ah-les-sahn-draw] /ˌɑ lɛsˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), 1645?–82? Italian composer.
  • strangled — A strangled voice or cry sounds unclear because the throat muscles of the person speaking or crying are tight.
  • streambed — the channel in which a stream flows or formerly flowed.
  • streisand — Barbra. born 1942, US singer, actress, and film director: the films she has acted in include Funny Girl (1968) and A Star is Born (1976); her films as actress and director include Yentl (1983), Prince of Tides (1990), and The Mirror has Two Faces (1996)
  • stud mare — a female horse kept for breeding
  • subdealer — a dealer who buys from another dealer
  • subdermal — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
  • subhedral — (of mineral grains comprising igneous rocks) having a partial or incomplete crystal face or form.
  • subwarden — an assistant to a warden, a deputy or subordinate warden
  • sudermann — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1857–1928, German dramatist and novelist.
  • superroad — an extremely large road
  • surpassed — to go beyond in amount, extent, or degree; be greater than; exceed.
  • swaggered — to walk or strut with a defiant or insolent air.
  • swearword — a word used in swearing or cursing; a profane or obscene word.
  • synedrial — relating to a synedrion
  • tardiness — late; behind time; not on time: How tardy were you today?
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