9-letter words containing s, a, n, t
- trainshed — (in a railroad station) a shelter completely covering railroad tracks and their adjoining platforms.
- trainsick — ill with train sickness.
- traipsing — to walk or go aimlessly or idly or without finding or reaching one's goal: We traipsed all over town looking for a copy of the book.
- tramlines — streetcar track
- trans fat — trans-fatty acid.
- trans man — an adult who was born female but whose gender identity is male.
- trans-fat — trans-fatty acid.
- trans-use — (language) An early system on the IBM 1130.
- transaxle — a unit combining the transmission and differential of a motor vehicle and connected directly to the axles of the driving wheels.
- transcend — to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed: to transcend the limits of thought; kindness transcends courtesy.
- transcode — (language) An early system on the Ferut computer.
- transduce — to convert (energy) from one form into another.
- transenna — (in early Christian architecture) an openwork screen of stone or metal enclosing a shrine.
- transeunt — (of a mental act) producing an effect outside of the mind.
- transfect — to cause transfection in (a cell).
- transform — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transfuse — to transfer or pass from one to another; transmit; instill: to transfuse a love of literature to one's students.
- transgene — a gene that is transferred from an organism of one species to an organism of another species by genetic engineering
- transhume — to move cattle to suitable grazing grounds according to the season
- transient — not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory.
- transited — the act or fact of passing across or through; passage from one place to another.
- translate — to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own: to translate Spanish.
- transmute — change into another form
- transonic — close to the speed of propagation of sound; moving at 700–780 miles per hour (1127–1255 km/h) at sea level.
- transpire — to occur; happen; take place.
- transport — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
- transpose — to change the relative position, order, or sequence of; cause to change places; interchange: to transpose the third and fourth letters of a word.
- transship — to transfer from one ship, truck, freight car, or other conveyance to another.
- transumpt — an official or legal transcription, usually an old one
- transvaal — a province in the NE Republic of South Africa. 110,450 sq. mi. (286,066 sq. km). Capital: Pretoria.
- transvest — to wear clothes traditionally associated with the opposite sex
- trappings — articles of equipment or dress, especially of an ornamental character.
- trash can — a container for the disposal of dry waste matter.
- trasimeno — a lake in central Italy, in Umbria near Perugia: Romans defeated by Hannibal 217 b.c. About 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km).
- tribesman — a member of a tribe.
- triclosan — a drug used to treat skin infections
- trisagion — an ancient hymn
- tsakonian — a modern Greek dialect spoken on the east coast of the Peloponnesus, descended from the Laconian dialect of ancient Sparta.
- tsaritsyn — a former name of Volgograd.
- tsimshian — a member of an American Indian people of the coastal region of British Columbia.
- tsingyuan — Older Spelling. Qingyuan.
- tsinkiang — Older Spelling. former name of Quanzhou.
- tsiranana — Philibert [fil-uh-bert] /ˈfɪl ə bərt/ (Show IPA), 1910–78, president of the Malagasy Republic (now Madagascar) 1959–72.
- tungstate — a salt of any tungstic acid.
- tungusian — of or relating to a formerly nomadic Mongoloid people of E Siberia
- turkestan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
- turkistan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
- tympanist — a person who plays the drums, especially the kettledrums, in an orchestra.
- tyndareus — the husband of Leda and father of Clytemnestra and Castor.
- tyranness — a woman who behaves in a tyrannical manner