9-letter words containing s, a, n, t
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.
- suppliant — a person who supplicates; petitioner.
- sustained — to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
- sustainer — a person or thing that sustains.
- susurrant — softly murmuring; whispering.
- sweatband — a band lining the inside of a hat or cap to protect it against sweat from the head.
- swingbeat — a type of modern dance music that combines soul, rhythm and blues, and hip-hop
- swingboat — a piece of fairground equipment consisting of a boat-shaped carriage for swinging in
- swingtail — denoting an aircraft with a rear portion that can be opened to assist in loading cargo
- switchman — a person who has charge of a switch on a railroad.
- sycophant — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sylvanite — a mineral, gold silver telluride, (AuAg)Te 2 , silver-white with metallic luster, often occurring in crystals so arranged as to resemble written characters: an ore of gold.
- sympathin — a substance released at certain sympathetic nerve endings: thought to be identical with adrenaline
- synanthic — relating to synanthy
- synaptase — a compound present in almonds and other oily seeds
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- syncytial — a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm that is not separated into cells.
- syndactyl — having certain digits joined together.
- syndicate — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
- synnemata — a spore-bearing structure having very compact conidiophores.
- syntactic — of or relating to syntax: syntactic errors in English; the syntactic rules for computer source code.
- syntality — behavioral characteristics of a group perceived as parallel to or inferable from the personality structure of an individual.
- tabescent — wasting away; becoming emaciated or consumed.
- tacitness — understood without being openly expressed; implied: tacit approval.
- tackiness — not tasteful or fashionable; dowdy.
- taeniasis — infestation with tapeworms.
- tail-spin — spin (def 23).
- taintless — free from or without taint; pure; innocent.
- taiwanese — of or relating to Taiwan or its people.
- talkiness — the quality or condition of being talky; wordiness
- tanalised — having been treated with the trademarked timber preservative Tanalith
- tanginess — having a tang.
- tank suit — a simple one-piece bathing suit for women, having a scoop neck and shoulder straps and usually no lining or inner construction; maillot.
- tanstaafl — /tan'stah-fl/ (From Robert Heinlein's classic "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress") "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch". Often invoked when someone is balking at the prospect of using an unpleasantly heavyweight technique, or at the poor quality of some piece of free software, or at the signal-to-noise ratio of unmoderated Usenet newsgroups. "What? Don't tell me I have to implement a database back end to get my address book program to work!" "Well, TANSTAAFL you know." This phrase owes some of its popularity to the high concentration of science-fiction fans and political libertarians in hackerdom.
- tantalise — to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
- tantalism — a form of punishment similar to or as severe as that suffered by Tantalus
- tantalous — containing trivalent tantalum.
- tap pants — women's loose-fitting underpants.
- taperness — the state or quality of being a taper or tapered
- tar sands — sands or sandstone deposits containing tarry, viscous, bituminous oil
- tarantass — a large, four-wheeled Russian carriage mounted without springs on two parallel longitudinal wooden bars.
- tarantism — a mania characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance, especially as prevalent in southern Italy from the 15th to the 17th century, popularly attributed to the bite of the tarantula.
- tarantist — a mania characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance, especially as prevalent in southern Italy from the 15th to the 17th century, popularly attributed to the bite of the tarantula.
- tardiness — late; behind time; not on time: How tardy were you today?
- tarnished — metal: discolored
- tartiness — the condition or characteristic of being tarty
- taruntius — a crater in the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 38 miles (61 km) in diameter.
- tasmanian — an island S of Australia: a state of the commonwealth of Australia. 26,382 sq. mi. (68,330 sq. km). Capital: Hobart.
- tastiness — good-tasting; savory: a tasty canapé.
- tatarstan — Republic of, an autonomous republic in central Russia on the E European Plain, at the confluence of the Volga and Kama rivers. 26,192 sq. mi. (67,836 sq. km). Capital: Kazan.