9-letter words containing s, i, t, o, l
- stand oil — a thick oil made by heating linseed oil to temperatures of 600°F and higher, used chiefly as a medium in paints.
- stational — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- statolith — Zoology. any of the granules of lime, sand, etc., contained within a statocyst.
- 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.
- stillborn — dead when born.
- stillroom — (in a large house) a room for distilling or for the preparation of special foods and drinks.
- stocklist — a list or inventory of all the items in stock
- stockpile — a supply of material, as a pile of gravel in road maintenance.
- stoically — impassive; characterized by a calm, austere fortitude befitting the Stoics: a stoical sufferer.
- stolidity — not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.
- stoplight — traffic light.
- storyline — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- stownlins — secretly; stealthily.
- strap-oil — a beating
- strobilar — of or relating to a strobila
- strobilus — a reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop.
- strolling — to walk leisurely as inclination directs; ramble; saunter; take a walk: to stroll along the beach.
- stromboli — an island off the NE coast of Sicily, in the Lipari group.
- styliform — having the shape of an ancient style; stylar.
- stylolite — an irregular columnar structure in certain limestones, the columns being approximately at right angles to the bedding planes.
- stylopize — (of a stylops) to parasitize (a host)
- sublation — to deny or contradict; negate.
- 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.
- sweet oil — olive oil.
- 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.
- syllogist — a person who engages in syllogistic argument.
- symbolist — a person who uses symbols or symbolism.
- 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.
- tediously — marked by monotony or tedium; long and tiresome: tedious tasks; a tedious journey.
- televisor — an apparatus for transmitting or receiving television.
- 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.
- tidepools — tidal pool.
- tillotson — John, 1630–94, English clergyman: archbishop of Canterbury 1691–94.
- time slot — allocated period of time
- tiny clos — A core part of Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) ported to Scheme and rebuilt using a MOP (Metaobject Protocol). This should be interesting to those who want to use MOPs without using a full Common Lisp or Dylan. The first release works with MIT Scheme 11.74.
- tomlinson — Henry Major, 1873–1958, English journalist and novelist.
- 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.
- torulosis — cryptococcosis.
- triclosan — a drug used to treat skin infections