9-letter words containing r, o, s, a, l
- sibilator — someone who whistles
- signorial — relating to a signoria
- silk road — ancient trade route extending from China to the Mediterranean
- simulator — a person or thing that simulates.
- slavocrat — (in the US before the Civil War) a slaveholder, or an advocate of slavery
- slip road — A slip road is a road which cars use to drive on and off a motorway.
- sloganeer — a person who creates and uses slogans frequently.
- snap roll — a manoeuvre in which an aircraft makes a fast roll
- snap-roll — to put (an airplane) through the maneuver of a snap roll.
- soaringly — in a soaring manner
- solar day — Astronomy. the time interval between two successive transits by the sun of the meridian directly opposite that of the observer; the 24-hour interval from one midnight to the following midnight.
- solfatara — a fumarole that gives off only sulfurous gases.
- 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.
- 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.
- sororally — in a sororal manner
- sour salt — crystals of citric acid used as a flavoring in foods, carbonated beverages, and pharmaceuticals.
- spoliator — a plunderer
- sporidial — relating or belonging to one or more sporidia
- sporozoal — belonging or relating to Sporozoa
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- stalworth — stalwart.
- stavropol — a territory of the Russian Federation in Europe, N of the Caucasus. 29,600 sq. mi. (76,960 sq. km).
- stercoral — stercoraceous
- 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.
- strap-oil — a beating
- strobilar — of or relating to a strobila
- strokable — appearing pleasant to stroke
- subdorsal — situated close to the back in humans or upper surface in animals
- subnormal — below the normal; less than or inferior to the normal: a subnormal amount of rain.
- subocular — below or under the eye
- sucralose — a white, crystalline powder, C 12 H 19 Cl 3 O 8 , produced synthetically from sucrose, about 600 times as sweet as sucrose but having no calories.
- suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
- sugarloaf — a large, usually conical loaf or mass of hard refined sugar: the common form of household sugar until the mid-19th century.
- sur-royal — crown antler.
- swordplay — the action or technique of wielding a sword; fencing.
- swordtail — any of several small, brightly colored, viviparous, freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, native to Central America, having the lower part of the caudal fin elongated into a swordlike structure: often kept in aquariums.
- tailoress — a female tailor
- taylorism — a modified form of Calvinism that maintains that every person has a free will, and that makes a distinction between depravity, as the tendency to commit sins, and sin, as a voluntary choice of evil actions.
- teleosaur — a type of crocodile from the Jurassic period
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- tonsillar — a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.
- tonsorial — of or relating to a barber or barbering: the tonsorial shop.
- torsional — the act of twisting.
- trehalose — a white, crystalline disaccharide, C 12 H 22 O 11 , occurring in yeast, certain fungi, etc., and used to identify certain bacteria.
- triclosan — a drug used to treat skin infections
- trifocals — glasses with trifocal lenses
- ultraposh — extremely posh
- ultraslow — extremely slow
- ultrasoft — extremely soft