9-letter words containing s, a, t, y
- stornoway — a city in NW Scotland, in the Hebrides.
- story arc — a continuing storyline in a television series that gradually unfolds over several episodes
- stow away — Nautical. to put (cargo, provisions, etc.) in the places intended for them. to put (sails, spars, gear, etc.) in the proper place or condition when not in use.
- strangely — unusual, extraordinary, or curious; odd; queer: a strange remark to make.
- strangury — painful urination in which the urine is emitted drop by drop owing to muscle spasms of the urethra or urinary bladder.
- strayhorn — William ("Billy") 1915–67, U.S. jazz pianist and composer: collaborator with Duke Ellington.
- strayling — a stray
- streamway — the bed of a stream.
- 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.
- stylobate — a course of masonry, part of the stereobate, forming the foundation for a colonnade, especially the outermost colonnade.
- styrofoam — Styrofoam is a very light, plastic substance, used especially to make containers.
- suability — liable to be sued; capable of being sued.
- subcavity — a cavity within a larger cavity
- substylar — of or relating to a substyle
- sumptuary — pertaining to, dealing with, or regulating expense or expenditure.
- sweet bay — laurel (def 1).
- sybaritic — (usually lowercase) pertaining to or characteristic of a sybarite; characterized by or loving luxury or sensuous pleasure: to wallow in sybaritic splendor.
- sycophant — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- syktyvkar — an autonomous republic in the NW Russian Federation in Europe. 145,221 sq. mi. (376,122 sq. km). Capital: Syktyvkar.
- 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.
- symmetral — relating to symmetry
- sympathin — a substance released at certain sympathetic nerve endings: thought to be identical with adrenaline
- sympatico — simpatico
- sympatric — originating in or occupying the same geographical area.
- sympetaly — the condition of fused petals
- 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.
- systaltic — rhythmically contracting.
- tallyshop — a store specializing in selling merchandise on the hire-purchase system.
- tarkovsky — Andrei (ˈɑndrej). 1932–86, Soviet film director, whose films include Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1971), Nostalgia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986)
- 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.
- teasingly — to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
- theocrasy — a mixture of religious forms and deities by worshipers.
- thursdays — on Thursdays; every Thursday.
- tolstoyan — Leo or Lev Nikolaevich [lev nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich;; Russian lyef nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /lɛv ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ əˌvɪtʃ;; Russian ˈlyɛf nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Count, 1828–1910, Russian novelist and social critic.
- toyohashi — a seaport on S Honshu, in central Japan.
- tsaritsyn — a former name of Volgograd.
- tsingyuan — Older Spelling. Qingyuan.
- tympanist — a person who plays the drums, especially the kettledrums, in an orchestra.
- tyndareus — the husband of Leda and father of Clytemnestra and Castor.
- type-cast — (of text to be printed) having the type already cast.
- tyranness — a woman who behaves in a tyrannical manner
- tyrannies — arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority. Synonyms: despotism, absolutism, dictatorship.