9-letter words containing s, t, e, r, o
- soft-core — of, relating to, or containing sexually arousing depictions that are not fully explicit: soft-core pornography. Compare hard-core (def 2).
- softcover — paperback edition of a book
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- solitaire — Also called patience. any of various games played by one person with one or more regular 52-card packs, part or all of which are usually dealt out according to a given pattern, the object being to arrange the cards in a predetermined manner.
- solutizer — any admixture to a substance for promoting or increasing its solubility or that of one or more of its components.
- solutrean — Archaeology. of or designating an Upper Paleolithic European culture c18,000–16,000 b.c., characterized by the making of stone projectile points and low-relief stone sculptures.
- sonnetary — relating to sonnets
- sonneteer — a composer of sonnets.
- sonometer — audiometer.
- sooterkin — the mythical black afterbirth of Dutch women that was believed to result from their warming themselves on stoves
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- sorbitize — to turn metal into a form containing sorbite
- sorediate — having soredia
- sörenstam — Annika (ˈænɪka). born 1970, Swedish golfer; winner of the US Women's Open (1995, 1996, 2006), the LPGA Championship (2003, 2004, 2005), and the British Women's Open (2003)
- sort code — branch number of a bank
- sortilege — the drawing of lots for divination; divination by lot.
- sottisier — a collection of jokes
- soubrette — a maidservant or lady's maid in a play, opera, or the like, especially one displaying coquetry, pertness, and a tendency to engage in intrigue.
- souteneur — a pimp
- southerly — a wind that blows from the south.
- spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.
- spearwort — any of several buttercups having lance-shaped leaves and small flowers, as Ranunculus ambigens, of the eastern U.S., growing in mud.
- spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- spermato- — indicating sperm
- sporocyte — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- sportless — without any sport
- sportsmen — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- sportster — a sports car.
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- spot rate — trading: immediate price
- st-tropez — commune and seaside resort in SE France, on the Mediterranean: pop. 5,000
- standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
- stare out — If you stare someone out, you look steadily into their eyes for such a long time that they feel that they have to turn their eyes away from you.
- starstone — a precious stone which has been cut in such a way that it reflects light in a starlike pattern
- stateroom — a private room or compartment on a ship, train, etc.
- stationer — a person who sells the materials used in writing, as paper, pens, pencils, and ink.
- stay over — spend the night
- steelwork — steel parts or articles.
- stegosaur — a plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Stegosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a heavy, bony armor and a row of bony plates along its back, and growing to a length of 20 to 40 feet (6–12 meters).
- stercoral — stercoraceous
- sternmost — farthest aft.
- sternport — an opening or window in the stern of ship
- sternpost — an upright member rising from the after end of a keel; a rudderpost or propeller post.
- 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.
- sticheron — a liturgical hymn sung in the Orthodox Church
- stinkeroo — a bad or contemptible person or thing
- stomacher — a richly ornamented garment covering the stomach and chest, worn by both sexes in the 15th and 16th centuries, and later worn under a bodice by women.