9-letter words containing s, a, l, t
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- relatives — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
- replaster — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- resultant — that results; following as a result or consequence.
- retailers — the sale of goods to ultimate consumers, usually in small quantities (opposed to wholesale).
- rijstafel — an assortment of Indonesian side dishes accompanied by rice
- ritualism — adherence to or insistence on ritual.
- ritualist — a student of or authority on ritual practices or religious rites.
- rock salt — common salt occurring in extensive, irregular beds in rocklike masses.
- rock-salt — common salt occurring in extensive, irregular beds in rocklike masses.
- rootstalk — a rhizome.
- rosenthal — Jean, 1912–69, U.S. theatrical lighting designer.
- rostrally — in a rostral manner
- royalmast — the highest part of a mast
- sacculate — formed into or having a saccule, sac, or saclike dilation.
- sackcloth — sacking.
- sacrality — sacredness
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- sail into — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
- sailcloth — any of various fabrics, as of cotton, nylon, or Dacron, for boat sails or tents.
- saint leo — Saint (Bruno) 1002–54, German ecclesiastic: pope 1049–54.
- saintling — a little saint
- sakuntala — a Sanskrit drama written in the 6th century or earlier by Kalidasa.
- salcantay — a mountain in the Andes in S central Peru: highest peak in the Cordillera Vilcabamba. 20,574 feet (6271 meters).
- saleratus — sodium bicarbonate used in cookery; baking soda.
- sales tax — a tax on receipts from sales, usually added to the selling price by the seller.
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- saliently — prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.
- salimeter — salinometer.
- salivator — any agent that causes salivation.
- sallyport — a gateway permitting the passage of a large number of troops at a time.
- salometer — salinometer.
- salt away — a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
- salt bath — a bath of molten salts in which steel can be immersed to soak to a uniform and accurately maintained temperature as part of the process of heat treatment. Different salts are used for different temperatures
- salt beef — beef that has been preserved in salt
- salt cake — an impure form of sodium sulfate, especially as obtained by the interaction of sulfuric acid and common salt in the synthesis of hydrochloric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of glass, ceramic glazes, soaps, and sodium salts.
- salt dome — a domelike rock structure that is formed beneath the earth's surface by the upward movement of a mass of salt, may reach thousands of feet in vertical extent, and is more or less circular in plan: often associated with oil and gas pools.
- salt flat — an extensive level tract coated with salt deposits left by evaporation of rising ground water or a temporary body of surface water.
- salt junk — salted beef or pork.
- salt lake — a body of water having no outlet to the sea and containing in solution a high concentration of salts, especially sodium chloride.
- salt lick — a place to which animals go to lick naturally occurring salt deposits.
- salt mine — a mine from which salt is excavated.
- salt pork — pork cured with salt, especially the fat pork taken from the back, sides, and belly.
- salt tree — athel tree.
- salt well — a well from which brine is obtained.
- salt-free — containing or involving no salt
- saltation — a dancing, hopping, or leaping movement.
- saltatory — pertaining to or adapted for saltation.
- saltchuck — the ocean.
- saltglaze — having a salt glaze.