9-letter words containing s, i, a, l, o
- steroidal — any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds, as the sterols, bile acids, and sex hormones, most of which have specific physiological action.
- stoically — impassive; characterized by a calm, austere fortitude befitting the Stoics: a stoical sufferer.
- strap-oil — a beating
- strobilar — of or relating to a strobila
- sublation — to deny or contradict; negate.
- subsocial — without a definite social structure.
- suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
- sulcation — having long, narrow grooves or channels, as plant stems, or being furrowed or cleft, as hoofs.
- sulfation — Chemistry. a salt or ester of sulfuric acid.
- 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.
- synodical — of a synod; synodal
- syphiloma — a tumour or gumma caused by infection with syphilis
- tailoress — a female tailor
- tailstock — a movable or sliding support for the dead center of a lathe or grinder.
- tallowish — resembling tallow; tallow-like
- tasajillo — a bushy or treelike cactus, Opuntia leptocaulis, of the southwestern U.S., having slender, spiny branches, greenish-yellow flowers, and red berrylike fruit.
- 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.
- telotaxis — orientation or movement, by an organism with sensory receptors, toward or away from a particular source of stimulation.
- tensional — the act of stretching or straining.
- thallious — having a surplus of thallium
- thio salt — a salt of a thio acid.
- tonsillar — a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.
- tonsorial — of or relating to a barber or barbering: the tonsorial shop.
- torsional — the act of twisting.
- triclosan — a drug used to treat skin infections
- trifocals — glasses with trifocal lenses
- variolous — of or relating to smallpox.
- variously — of different kinds, as two or more things; differing one from another: Various experiments have not proved his theory.
- vocalised — to make vocal; utter; articulate; sing.
- volacious — able or fit to fly.
- volcanics — types of rock
- volcanism — the phenomena connected with volcanoes and volcanic activity.
- volcanist — a person who studies volcanoes
- wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
- wilsonian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Woodrow Wilson.