9-letter words containing t, e, n, s, o, r
- petronius — Gaius (ˈɡaɪəs), known as Petronius Arbiter. died 66 ad, Roman satirist, supposed author of the Satyricon, a picaresque account of the licentiousness of contemporary society
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- progestin — any substance having progesteronelike activity.
- reconsult — to consult (someone or something) again
- recosting — the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything: the high cost of a good meal.
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- remoisten — to moisten again, to add new moisture to
- resection — Surveying. a technique of ascertaining the location of a point by taking bearings from the point on two other points of known location.
- resnatron — a tetrode with the grid connected to form a drift space for the electrons, formerly used to generate high power at very high frequency.
- resolvent — resolving; causing solution; solvent.
- resonator — anything that resonates.
- resorting — to sort or arrange (cards, papers, etc.) again.
- restation — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- rethondes — a village in N France near Compiègne: armistice ending World War I signed here 1918.
- retorsion — retaliation or reprisal by one state identical or similar to an act by an offending state, such as high tariffs or discriminating duties.
- retrusion — the act of moving a tooth backward.
- robertson — Oscar Palmer ("The Big O") born 1938, U.S. basketball player.
- rosenthal — Jean, 1912–69, U.S. theatrical lighting designer.
- rosetting — abnormal leaf formation in a plant due to disease
- rosinante — the old, worn horse of Don Quixote.
- rousement — a stirring up of religious excitement
- sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
- sclerotin — an insoluble protein that serves to stiffen the chitin of the cuticle of arthropods.
- sea front — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- secretion — (in a cell or gland) the act or process of separating, elaborating, and releasing a substance that fulfills some function within the organism or undergoes excretion.
- semantron — a bar struck instead of a bell in an Orthodox church
- senhorita — a Portuguese term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- seniority — the state of being senior; priority of birth; superior age.
- seriation — the arrangement of a collection of artifacts into a chronological sequence.
- serotinal — pertaining to or occurring in late summer.
- serotines — a small Eurasian brown bat, Eptesicus serotinus.
- serotonin — a neurotransmitter, derived from tryptophan, that is involved in sleep, depression, memory, and other neurological processes.
- serration — serrated condition or form.
- shortness — having little length; not long.
- snakeroot — any of various plants whose roots have been regarded as a remedy for snakebites, as the herb Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot) having a medicinal rhizome and rootlets, and the white-flowered Polygala senega (Seneca snakeroot) having a medicinal root.
- snow tire — an automobile tire with a deep tread or protruding studs to give increased traction on snow or ice.
- snow tyre — a motor vehicle tyre with deep treads and ridges to give improved grip on snow and ice
- snow-tire — an automobile tire with a deep tread or protruding studs to give increased traction on snow or ice.
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- 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
- 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)
- souteneur — a pimp
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- sportsmen — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
- starstone — a precious stone which has been cut in such a way that it reflects light in a starlike pattern