9-letter words containing s, t, a, r, l
- sterculia — any of various tropical trees of the genus Sterculia, of which some species are grown as ornamentals and some are the source of commercially valuable wood.
- sterilant — a sterilizing agent.
- 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.
- straddler — to walk, stand, or sit with the legs wide apart; stand or sit astride.
- stradella — Alessandro [ah-les-sahn-draw] /ˌɑ lɛsˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), 1645?–82? Italian composer.
- straggler — to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
- stralsund — a seaport in NE Germany: a member of the medieval Hanseatic League; besieged by Wallenstein 1628.
- strangely — unusual, extraordinary, or curious; odd; queer: a strange remark to make.
- strangled — A strangled voice or cry sounds unclear because the throat muscles of the person speaking or crying are tight.
- strangler — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- strangles — distemper1 (def 1b).
- strap-oil — a beating
- strapless — without a strap or straps.
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
- strawless — without a straw or without straw
- strayling — a stray
- streamlet — a small stream; rivulet.
- strikable — being cause for a strike, as by union members: strikable labor issues.
- strobilar — of or relating to a strobila
- strokable — appearing pleasant to stroke
- subaltern — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
- subastral — pertaining to or proceeding from the stars; stellar; star-shaped.
- substylar — of or relating to a substyle
- suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
- sulfurate — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
- supersalt — a salt with an excess of acid over base
- supertalk — Silicon Beach Software. A superset of HyperTalk used in SuperCard.
- 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.
- symmetral — relating to symmetry
- tahsildar — (in India) a collector for, or official of, the revenue department.
- tailfirst — with the tail or rear part foremost.
- tailoress — a female tailor
- tallgrass — an area (esp a prairie) having long or tall grass
- tap swirl — a device used to direct the flow of water from a tap in a sink
- tarsalgia — pain in the tarsus
- 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.
- teaseller — a person who teasels cloth
- tehsildar — person who administrates a tehsil
- teleosaur — a type of crocodile from the Jurassic period
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- tessellar — of or relating to tessellae
- thesaural — relating to a thesaurus
- 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.
- traceless — having or leaving no trace: a traceless crime.
- trackless — without a track, as a snow-covered meadow.
- trailside — the side or border of a trail.
- trailsman — a person who follows a trail.
- tramlines — streetcar track