9-letter words containing t, a, u, r, s
- share out — distribute fairly
- sharp-cut — cut so as to have a sharp edge: a tool with a sharp-cut blade.
- signature — a person's name, or a mark representing it, as signed personally or by deputy, as in subscribing a letter or other document.
- simulator — a person or thing that simulates.
- slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- 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.
- sour salt — crystals of citric acid used as a flavoring in foods, carbonated beverages, and pharmaceuticals.
- southward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
- southwark — a borough of Greater London, England, S of the Thames.
- spartacus — died 71 b.c, Thracian slave, gladiator, and insurrectionist.
- spiritual — of, relating to, or consisting of spirit; incorporeal.
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- squawroot — a fleshy, leafless plant, Conopholis americana, of the broomrape family, native to eastern North America, having a stout, yellowish, conelike stalk of lipped flowers, and growing in clusters, especially under oaks.
- star ruby — a ruby that resembles a starlike figure in reflected light because of its crystalline structure
- star turn — the leading performer or act in a play, review, film, or the like.
- starburst — a pattern of lines or rays radiating from a central point.
- 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.
- starquake — a rapid change in the mass distribution or shape of a pulsar, resulting in a fluctuation of the pulsar's pulse rate or radiation intensity.
- start out — begin career
- state-run — controlled by the government
- statutory — of, relating to, or of the nature of a statute.
- stauncher — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- 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).
- stellular — having the form of a small star or small stars.
- 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.
- stirabout — porridge.
- stourhead — a Palladian mansion near Mere in Wiltshire: built (1722) for Henry Hoare; famous for its landscaped gardens laid out (1741) by Flitcroft
- stralsund — a seaport in NE Germany: a member of the medieval Hanseatic League; besieged by Wallenstein 1628.
- strangury — painful urination in which the urine is emitted drop by drop owing to muscle spasms of the urethra or urinary bladder.
- striature — the way something is striated
- stroupach — a cup of tea
- stud farm — place where horses are bred
- stud mare — a female horse kept for breeding
- stuttgart — a state in SW Germany: formed 1951. 13,800 sq. mi. (35,740 sq. km). Capital: Stuttgart.
- subaltern — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
- subarctic — of, pertaining to, similar to, or being the region immediately south of the Arctic Circle; subpolar.
- subastral — pertaining to or proceeding from the stars; stellar; star-shaped.
- subcantor — a deputy to a cantor
- submarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- submatrix — a set of certain rows and columns of a given matrix.
- subrogate — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- substrate — a substratum.
- substylar — of or relating to a substyle
- succorant — the act of seeking out affectionate care and social support.
- suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- sugar act — a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market.
- sugar tit — a piece of cloth containing moist sugar, wrapped to resemble a nipple and used to pacify an infant.
- sugar-tit — a piece of cloth containing moist sugar, wrapped to resemble a nipple and used to pacify an infant.
- sugarcoat — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.