9-letter words containing s, t, e, l
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- relatives — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
- replaster — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- resentful — full of or marked by resentment.
- resilient — springing back; rebounding.
- resolicit — to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.
- resolvent — resolving; causing solution; solvent.
- resultant — that results; following as a result or consequence.
- resultful — containing results, having significant effects
- resulting — to spring, arise, or proceed as a consequence of actions, circumstances, premises, etc.; be the outcome.
- retailers — the sale of goods to ultimate consumers, usually in small quantities (opposed to wholesale).
- rightless — lacking rights
- rijstafel — an assortment of Indonesian side dishes accompanied by rice
- rillettes — an appetizer made usually of pork or goose meat that is diced, seasoned, cooked, and then pounded or ground to the consistency of a spread.
- roosevelt — (Anna) Eleanor, 1884–1962, U.S. diplomat, author, and lecturer (wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt).
- rosenthal — Jean, 1912–69, U.S. theatrical lighting designer.
- rostellum — Biology. any small, beaklike process.
- rust belt — the heavily industrial area of the northeastern U.S. containing the older industries and factories.
- rustle up — to make a succession of slight, soft sounds, as of parts rubbing gently one on another, as leaves, silks, or papers.
- sacculate — formed into or having a saccule, sac, or saclike dilation.
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- saint leo — Saint (Bruno) 1002–54, German ecclesiastic: pope 1049–54.
- saleratus — sodium bicarbonate used in cookery; baking soda.
- sales tax — a tax on receipts from sales, usually added to the selling price by the seller.
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- saliently — prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.
- salimeter — salinometer.
- salometer — salinometer.
- salt beef — beef that has been preserved in salt
- salt cake — an impure form of sodium sulfate, especially as obtained by the interaction of sulfuric acid and common salt in the synthesis of hydrochloric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of glass, ceramic glazes, soaps, and sodium salts.
- salt dome — a domelike rock structure that is formed beneath the earth's surface by the upward movement of a mass of salt, may reach thousands of feet in vertical extent, and is more or less circular in plan: often associated with oil and gas pools.
- salt lake — a body of water having no outlet to the sea and containing in solution a high concentration of salts, especially sodium chloride.
- salt mine — a mine from which salt is excavated.
- salt tree — athel tree.
- salt well — a well from which brine is obtained.
- salt-free — containing or involving no salt
- saltglaze — having a salt glaze.
- saltiness — tasting of or containing salt; saline.
- saltpeter — the form of potassium nitrate, KNO 3 , that occurs naturally, used in the manufacture of fireworks, fluxes, gunpowder, etc.; niter.
- saltpetre — the form of potassium nitrate, KNO 3 , that occurs naturally, used in the manufacture of fireworks, fluxes, gunpowder, etc.; niter.
- saltwater — of or relating to salt water.
- saluretic — of or relating to a substance that promotes renal excretion of sodium and chloride ions.
- salvatore — a male given name.
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- sassolite — the mineral form of boric acid found in the saline deposits of the hot springs near Sasso in Tuscany, H3BO3
- satellite — Astronomy. a natural body that revolves around a planet; a moon.
- satelloid — a low-altitude satellite using engines with small thrust to maintain its orbit.
- saturable — capable of being saturated.
- saulteaux — a member of an American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, a division of the Ojibwa.
- scaletail — a squirrel in the family Anomaluridae possessing scales on the underside of the tail