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9-letter words containing s, t, o, n, e, d

  • notecards — An ambitious hypertext system developed at Xerox PARC, "designed to support the task of transforming a chaotic collection of unrelated thoughts into an integrated, orderly interpretation of ideas and their interconnections".
  • notedness — the quality of being noted
  • odelsting — the parliament of Norway, elected by popular vote, which is divided into the upper house (Lagting) comprising one quarter of the members, and the lower house (Odelsting) comprising the rest.
  • ordinates — Plural form of ordinate.
  • outdesign — to exceed in designing
  • outshined — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
  • overstand — overreach (def 13).
  • pad stone — a stone template.
  • pastedown — the leaf of an endpaper that is pasted to the inside of the front or back cover of a book.
  • pentoside — a glycoside that, upon hydrolysis, yields a pentose
  • postponed — to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
  • rethondes — a village in N France near Compiègne: armistice ending World War I signed here 1918.
  • sandstone — a common sedimentary rock consisting of sand, usually quartz, cemented together by various substances, as silica, calcium carbonate, iron oxide, or clay.
  • saponated — treated or combined with soap
  • seduction — an act or instance of seducing, especially sexually.
  • side tone — sound diverted from a telephone microphone to the earpiece so that a speaker hears his own voice at the same level and position as that of the respondent
  • snotnosed — impudent; insolent; snotty.
  • soundbite — short statement, quotation
  • staminode — a sterile or abortive stamen.
  • standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
  • stationed — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
  • step down — serving to reduce or decrease voltage: a step-down transformer.
  • step-down — serving to reduce or decrease voltage: a step-down transformer.
  • stew pond — a fishpond or fishtank
  • stonehand — a person who arranges type and imposes pages on an imposing stone
  • stonkered — to hit hard; knock unconscious.
  • tendinous — of the nature of or resembling a tendon.
  • the sound — a strait between SW Sweden and Zealand (Denmark), linking the Kattegat with the Baltic: busy shipping lane; spanned by a bridge in 2000. Length of the strait: 113 km (70 miles). Narrowest point: 5 km (3 miles)
  • the-downs — a range of low ridges in S and SW England.
  • toadstone — any of various stones or stonelike objects, formerly supposed to have been formed in the head or body of a toad, worn as jewels or amulets.
  • tornadoes — a localized, violently destructive windstorm occurring over land, especially in the Middle West, and characterized by a long, funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris. Compare waterspout (def 3).
  • tournedos — small slices of fillet of beef, round and thick, served with a variety of sauces and garnished.
  • townshendCharles, 1725–67, English politician, chancellor of the exchequer for whom the Townshend Acts are named.
  • transcode — (language)   An early system on the Ferut computer.
  • undermost — being the furthest under; lowest
  • undershot — having the front teeth of the lower jaw projecting in front of the upper teeth, as a bulldog.
  • unit dose — A unit dose is the amount of a medication administered to a patient in a single dose.
  • unroasted — not roasted or cooked over dry heat
  • unsoothed — not soothed
  • unspotted — having no spots or stains; without spots; spotless: an unspotted breed of dog; unspotted trousers.
  • unstocked — not having stock or stores
  • unstopped — to remove the stopper from: to unstop a bottle.
  • unstoried — without a history; not written as history or told as folklore: an unstoried island.
  • westbound — proceeding or headed west.
  • woodstone — a type of stone resembling wood; petrified wood
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