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9-letter words containing s, o, l, t

  • 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.
  • strongyle — any nematode of the family Strongylidae, parasitic as an adult in the intestine of mammals, especially horses.
  • stud bolt — a headless bolt threaded at each end.
  • sturluson — Snorri Sturluson.
  • stylebook — a book containing rules of usage in typography, punctuation, etc., employed by printers, editors, and writers.
  • styliform — having the shape of an ancient style; stylar.
  • stylobate — a course of masonry, part of the stereobate, forming the foundation for a colonnade, especially the outermost colonnade.
  • 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)
  • subcostal — below the rib
  • 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.
  • sulfonate — an ester or salt derived from a sulfonic acid.
  • sum total — complete numerical total: the sum total of my savings.
  • 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.
  • talk shop — a retail store, especially a small one.
  • talk show — a radio or television show in which a host interviews or chats with guests, especially celebrity guests.
  • tallowish — resembling tallow; tallow-like
  • tallyshop — a store specializing in selling merchandise on the hire-purchase system.
  • tantalous — containing trivalent tantalum.
  • 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.
  • telegonus — a son of Odysseus and Circe who unknowingly killed his father and eventually married Penelope.
  • teleosaur — a type of crocodile from the Jurassic period
  • telescope — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
  • telescopy — the use of the telescope.
  • televisor — an apparatus for transmitting or receiving television.
  • tellurous — containing tetravalent tellurium.
  • telophase — the final stage of meiosis or mitosis, in which the separated chromosomes reach the opposite poles of the dividing cell and the nuclei of the daughter cells form around the two sets of chromosomes.
  • 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.
  • tenuously — thin or slender in form, as a thread.
  • teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
  • thallious — having a surplus of thallium
  • the loose — the part of play when the forwards close round the ball in a ruck or loose scrum
  • the lords — the House of Lords in the British Parliament
  • the polls — the place where people vote during an election
  • the wolds — a range of chalk hills in NE England: consists of the Yorkshire Wolds to the north, separated from the Lincolnshire Wolds by the Humber estuary
  • thio salt — a salt of a thio acid.
  • threshold — the sill of a doorway.
  • throbless — pertaining to something that does not throb or pulsate or that lacks emotion
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