9-letter words containing r, e, s, i, t, a
- retiarius — a gladiator equipped with a net for casting over his opponent.
- rheotaxis — oriented movement of an organism in response to a current of fluid, especially water.
- rib steak — club steak.
- rijstafel — an assortment of Indonesian side dishes accompanied by rice
- risktaker — a person or corporation inclined to take risks: The management trainees were exhorted to become risktakers.
- rosinante — the old, worn horse of Don Quixote.
- rusticate — to go to the country.
- salimeter — salinometer.
- saluretic — of or relating to a substance that promotes renal excretion of sodium and chloride ions.
- sanitizer — a substance or preparation for killing germs, designed for use especially on food-processing equipment.
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
- satirized — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- satirizes — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- saturnine — sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn.
- sawtimber — trees suitable for sawing into planks, boards, etc.
- scenarist — a writer of motion-picture or television scenarios.
- scratchie — a scratchcard
- sectarial — distinguishing or differentiating a sect
- sectarian — of or relating to sectaries or sects.
- sectorial — of or relating to a sector.
- securitan — a person believing they are secure
- 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.
- septarian — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- septarium — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- serialist — a writer of serials
- seriality — a serial layout or arrangement; the quality of taking place in series
- seriation — the arrangement of a collection of artifacts into a chronological sequence.
- serotinal — pertaining to or occurring in late summer.
- serrating — Chiefly Biology. notched on the edge like a saw: a serrate leaf.
- serration — serrated condition or form.
- sex ratio — the proportional distribution of the sexes in a population aggregate, expressed as the number of males per 100 females.
- sextarius — an ancient Roman measurement for volume
- sidetrack — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
- signature — a person's name, or a mark representing it, as signed personally or by deputy, as in subscribing a letter or other document.
- slaistery — resembling slaister
- solitaire — Also called patience. any of various games played by one person with one or more regular 52-card packs, part or all of which are usually dealt out according to a given pattern, the object being to arrange the cards in a predetermined manner.
- sorediate — having soredia
- sparteine — a bitter, poisonous, liquid alkaloid obtained from certain species of broom, especially Cytisus scoparius, used in medicine to stimulate the heart and also the uterine muscles in childbirth.
- sparterie — things made from esparto
- spartiate — a member of the ruling class of ancient Laconia; a Spartan citizen. Compare Helot (def 1), Perioeci.
- sparticle — a hypothetical elementary particle thought to have been produced in the Big Bang
- spearmint — an aromatic herb, Mentha spicata, having lance-shaped leaves used for flavoring.
- spermatia — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
- spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
- spermatid — Cell Biology. one of the cells that result from the meiotic divisions of a spermatocyte and mature into spermatozoa.
- sphaerite — an aluminium phosphate
- spiraster — a part of a living sponge
- stagirite — a native or inhabitant of Stagira.
- stagyrite — a native or inhabitant of Stagira.