9-letter words containing s, o, r, d
- smoldered — to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
- smorzando — fading away; dying out (a musical direction).
- snockered — drunk; intoxicated.
- snodgrass — W(illiam) D(ewitt) [duh-wit] /dəˈwɪt/ (Show IPA), 1926–2009, U.S. poet.
- snookered — a variety of pool played with 15 red balls and 6 balls of colors other than red, in which a player must shoot one of the red balls, each with a point value of 1, into a pocket before shooting at one of the other balls, with point values of from 2 to 7.
- snowboard — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
- snowdrift — a mound or bank of snow driven together by the wind.
- soda jerk — a person who prepares and serves sodas and ice cream at a soda fountain.
- sodbuster — a farmer who works the soil.
- soderblom — Nathan, 1866–1931, Swedish theologian: Nobel Peace Prize 1930.
- soft drug — a drug, usually illicit, that does not produce significant psychological or physical dependence.
- softboard — a soft, porous particle board.
- solar day — Astronomy. the time interval between two successive transits by the sun of the meridian directly opposite that of the observer; the 24-hour interval from one midnight to the following midnight.
- soldering — any of various alloys fused and applied to the joint between metal objects to unite them without heating the objects to the melting point.
- soldierly — of, like, or befitting a soldier.
- solid for — unanimously in favour of
- song-bird — a bird that sings.
- sorediate — having soredia
- sort code — branch number of a bank
- soundcard — A soundcard is a piece of equipment which can be put into a computer so that the computer can produce music or other sounds.
- sour dock — any of various weedy plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, as R. obtusifolius (bitter dock) or R. acetosa (sour dock) having long taproots.
- sourdough — leaven, especially fermented dough retained from one baking and used, rather than fresh yeast, to start the next.
- southward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
- spadework — preliminary or initial work, such as the gathering of data, on which further activity is to be based.
- splendour — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- spodogram — the ash pattern produced by incinerating a plant
- sponsored — a person who vouches or is responsible for a person or thing.
- sporicide — a substance or preparation for killing spores.
- sporidesm — a multicellular group of spores
- sporidial — relating or belonging to one or more sporidia
- sporidium — a small spore produced on the basidia or promycelia of fungi, etc
- sportsdom — the world of professional and amateur competitive sports.
- spot card — spot (def 10b).
- squadrone — a former Scottish political party, active in the last parliament of Scotland before the Act of Union, in the early 18th century
- squiredom — the squirearchy.
- stair rod — a rod for holding a stair carpet in place against the bottom of a riser.
- stand for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
- starboard — the right-hand side of or direction from a vessel or aircraft, facing forward.
- 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.
- stevedore — a firm or individual engaged in the loading or unloading of a vessel.
- stockyard — an enclosure with pens, sheds, etc., connected with a slaughterhouse, railroad, market, etc., for the temporary housing of cattle, sheep, swine, or horses.
- stonkered — to hit hard; knock unconscious.
- stoppered — a person or thing that stops.
- storecard — A storecard is a plastic card that you use to buy goods on credit from a particular store or group of stores.
- storewide — applying to all the merchandise or all the departments within a store: the annual storewide clearance sale.
- stormbird — any bird of several species of black, white, or grey seabirds belonging to the order Procellariiformes
- stourhead — a Palladian mansion near Mere in Wiltshire: built (1722) for Henry Hoare; famous for its landscaped gardens laid out (1741) by Flitcroft
- strafford — 1st Earl of (Thomas Wentworth) 1593–1641, English statesman: chief adviser of Charles I of England.
- strappado — an old form of punishment or torture in which the victim, with arms bound behind, was raised from the ground by a rope fastened to the wrists, abruptly released, then arrested with a painful jerk just before reaching the ground.