9-letter words containing s, e, n, g
- saddening — causing someone to become sad
- sagapenum — a resin formerly used as a drug
- sagenitic — relating to sagenite
- sagginess — sagging or tending to sag: a saggy roof.
- salangane — a bird of the genus Collocalia, which make edible nests
- san diego — a seaport in SW California: naval and marine base.
- sans gene — without constraint or embarrassment; free and easy.
- sap green — a green pigment obtained from the juice of buckthorn berries, used chiefly in dyes for wood, paper, and textiles.
- sapogenin — a crystalline substance derived from saponin
- scavenger — an animal or other organism that feeds on dead organic matter.
- schelling — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von [free-drikh vil-helm yoh-zef fuh n] /ˈfri drɪx ˈvɪl hɛlm ˈyoʊ zɛf fən/ (Show IPA), 1775–1854, German philosopher.
- schmeling — Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1905–2005, German boxer: world heavyweight champion 1930–32.
- schonberg — Arnold [ahr-nuh ld;; German ahr-nuh lt] /ˈɑr nəld;; German ˈɑr nəlt/ (Show IPA), 1874–1951, Austrian composer in the U.S.
- schwinger — Julian Seymour, 1918–94, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1965.
- screaking — screeching or creaking
- screaming — uttering screams.
- screening — a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- scrounger — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- scungille — the meat of a mollusc or conch, eaten as a delicacy
- se'nnight — a week.
- sea green — a clear, light, bluish green.
- sea-green — a clear, light, bluish green.
- seafaring — traveling by sea.
- seal ring — a finger ring bearing an incised design for embossing a wax seal.
- searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- searingly — in a searing manner
- seasoning — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- secluding — to place in or withdraw into solitude; remove from social contact and activity, etc.
- seconding — next after the first; being the ordinal number for two.
- secreting — to place out of sight; hide; conceal: squirrels secreting nuts in a hollow tree trunk.
- sedgeland — land covered with sedge
- seemingly — apparent; appearing, whether truly or falsely, to be as specified: a seeming advantage.
- segmental — of, relating to, or characterized by segments or segmentation.
- segmented — one of the parts into which something naturally separates or is divided; a division, portion, or section: a segment of an orange.
- segregant — an organism which is different because of segregation
- seigneury — the domain of a seigneur.
- seigniory — the power or authority of a seignior.
- selecting — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- semiangle — half of a particular angle
- serengeti — a plain in NW Tanzania, including a major wildlife reserve (Serengeti National Park)
- sergeancy — the position or rank of a sergeant
- sergeanty — a form of land tenure in which a tenant holding of the king rendered him exclusive services in a status below that of a knight.
- sermoning — the preaching of sermons
- serrating — Chiefly Biology. notched on the edge like a saw: a serrate leaf.
- servicing — an act of helpful activity; help; aid: to do someone a service.
- settlings — the act of a person or thing that settles.
- shaveling — Older Use: Disparaging. a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.
- shearling — Chiefly British. a yearling sheep that has been shorn once.
- sheathing — the act of a person who sheathes.
- sheboygan — a port in E Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.