9-letter words containing s, a, l, t
- selectman — (in most New England states) one of a board of town officers chosen to manage certain public affairs.
- self-hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
- self-mate — a move that will cause a player's king to be mated within a certain number of subsequent moves.
- self-talk — motivational thoughts, affirmations
- self-want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
- sellotape — clear sticking tape
- semestral — (in many educational institutions) a division constituting half of the regular academic year, lasting typically from 15 to 18 weeks.
- semimetal — an element with properties both of a metal and of a non-metal; a metalloid
- serialist — a writer of serials
- seriality — a serial layout or arrangement; the quality of taking place in series
- serotinal — pertaining to or occurring in late summer.
- serrulate — finely or minutely serrate, as a leaf.
- severalty — the state of being separate.
- sextantal — pertaining to the weight standard that determined the worth of Roman coins
- sexualist — a botanist who employs or advocates Linnaeus' sexual system of classifying plants
- sexuality — sexual character; possession of the structural and functional traits of sex.
- sexvalent — hexavalent or having a valency of six
- shaftless — lacking a shaft
- shavetail — U.S. Army. a second lieutenant.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- shirttail — the part of a shirt below the waistline.
- shootable — suitable for being shot
- shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
- shortwall — pertaining to a means of extracting coal when the working face is about a third the length of the longwall system and mining is done by a continuous cutter rather than by longwall machinery.
- show flat — a newly-build flat that is decorated and furnished for prospective buyers to view
- shulamite — an epithet meaning “princess,” applied to the bride in the Song of Solomon 6:13.
- sialolith — a hard deposit occurring in a salivary gland
- sibilator — someone who whistles
- sidetable — a small table at the side of a room
- sigillate — (of a ceramic object) having stamped decorations.
- silicates — Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.
- siltation — earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- simmental — one of a large breed of cattle, yellowish-brown to red and white, originally of Switzerland, used for milk and beef and as a draft animal.
- simulated — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- simulator — a person or thing that simulates.
- simulcast — a program broadcast simultaneously on radio and television, or on more than one station, or in several languages, etc.
- sinistral — of, relating to, or on the left side; left (opposed to dextral).
- skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
- slabstone — a paving stone in the form of a slab; flagstone
- slaistery — resembling slaister
- slant-top — (especially of a desk) having a slant front.
- slantways — aslant; obliquely.
- slantwise — aslant; obliquely.
- slap shot — a very powerful, fast-moving shot of the puck on goal made with a full backswing of the stick and an extended follow-through.
- slapstick — broad comedy characterized by boisterous action, as the throwing of pies in actors' faces, mugging, and obvious farcical situations and jokes.
- slashfest — a film, animated film, or computer game in which victims are killed bloodily using blades
- slat back — a chair back having two or more horizontal slats between upright posts.
- slatelike — resembling slate
- slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- slave ant — an ant taken as a larva or pupa by ants of another species and becoming a working member of the captor colony.