9-letter words containing s, a, t, r, i
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
- strapping — powerfully built; robust.
- strategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
- stratonic — of or relating to an army
- strayling — a stray
- streaking — a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud.
- streaming — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- streisand — Barbra. born 1942, US singer, actress, and film director: the films she has acted in include Funny Girl (1968) and A Star is Born (1976); her films as actress and director include Yentl (1983), Prince of Tides (1990), and The Mirror has Two Faces (1996)
- striation — striated condition or appearance.
- striature — the way something is striated
- strikable — being cause for a strike, as by union members: strikable labor issues.
- strip map — a map charting only the immediate territory to be traversed, which appears as a long, narrow strip.
- strobilar — of or relating to a strobila
- strontian — strontianite.
- strychnia — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- subarctic — of, pertaining to, similar to, or being the region immediately south of the Arctic Circle; subpolar.
- submatrix — a set of certain rows and columns of a given matrix.
- suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- sugar tit — a piece of cloth containing moist sugar, wrapped to resemble a nipple and used to pacify an infant.
- sugar-tit — a piece of cloth containing moist sugar, wrapped to resemble a nipple and used to pacify an infant.
- summarist — a person who summarizes
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.
- sustainer — a person or thing that sustains.
- swartzite — a hydrous carbonate of calcium, magnesium, and uranium, occurring in green crystals: an ore of uranium.
- 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.
- sybaritic — (usually lowercase) pertaining to or characteristic of a sybarite; characterized by or loving luxury or sensuous pleasure: to wallow in sybaritic splendor.
- sympatric — originating in or occupying the same geographical area.
- tahsildar — (in India) a collector for, or official of, the revenue department.
- tailfirst — with the tail or rear part foremost.
- tailoress — a female tailor
- tap swirl — a device used to direct the flow of water from a tap in a sink
- taperwise — in the manner of a taper
- 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
- tarsalgia — pain in the tarsus
- 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.
- tasimeter — a device for measuring small temperature changes. It depends on the changes of pressure resulting from expanding or contracting solids
- 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.
- tearstain — a mark or wet streak left by tears.
- tearstrip — the part of packaging that may be easily torn to open it
- tehsildar — person who administrates a tehsil
- teiresias — a blind prophet, usually said to have been blinded because he saw Athena bathing, and then to have been awarded the gift of prophecy as a consolation for his blindness.
- teratosis — teratism (def 2).
- tessitura — the general pitch level or average range of a vocal or instrumental part in a musical composition: an uncomfortably high tessitura.
- testatrix — a woman who makes a will.
- the rains — the season of heavy rainfall, esp in the tropics