9-letter words containing t, i, l, u
- runtishly — in a runtish manner
- rushlight — a narrow candle, formerly in use, made of the pith of various types of rush dipped in tallow
- rutilated — containing fine, embedded needles of rutile.
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- salubrity — favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.
- saluretic — of or relating to a substance that promotes renal excretion of sodium and chloride ions.
- sausalito — a town in W California on San Fransisco Bay: resort; formerly artist's colony.
- scuttling — to run with quick, hasty steps; scurry.
- serpulite — a fossilized calcareous tube of a serpula
- sexualist — a botanist who employs or advocates Linnaeus' sexual system of classifying plants
- sexuality — sexual character; possession of the structural and functional traits of sex.
- shoutline — a line of text in an advertisement made prominent to catch attention
- shulamite — an epithet meaning “princess,” applied to the bride in the Song of Solomon 6:13.
- shuttling — a device in a loom for passing or shooting the weft thread through the shed from one side of the web to the other, usually consisting of a boat-shaped piece of wood containing a bobbin on which the weft thread is wound.
- simulated — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- simulator — a person or thing that simulates.
- simulcast — a program broadcast simultaneously on radio and television, or on more than one station, or in several languages, etc.
- singultus — a hiccup.
- sleepsuit — a baby's sleeping garment
- sleuthing — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
- slit-drum — a hollowed-out log with a long, narrow slit, beaten with a stick or stamped upon to produce a drumming sound, found in many cultures since ancient times.
- slut-tier — of, resembling, or characteristic of a slut: slutty behavior.
- solutizer — any admixture to a substance for promoting or increasing its solubility or that of one or more of its components.
- spiculate — having the form of a spicule.
- spill out — overflow
- spinulate — having a spine or spines
- spiritful — full of spirit or spiritual
- spiritual — of, relating to, or consisting of spirit; incorporeal.
- spirituel — showing or having a refined and graceful mind or wit.
- spit curl — a tight curl of hair, usually pressed against the forehead or cheek.
- split run — a pressrun, as that of a newspaper or magazine, which is interrupted after the running of a specified number of copies to permit the substitution of type or of a cut, as in a keyed advertisement: a device for testing the relative effectiveness of different versions of an advertisement.
- squattily — in a somewhat squat manner or shape
- st. louis — Saint, 1214?–70, king of France 1226–70.
- st. lucia — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- 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.
- stilt bug — any of various slender, long-legged, brownish bugs of the family Berytidae, inhabiting dense vegetation: sometimes classified with the leaf-footed bugs.
- stimulant — Physiology, Medicine/Medical. something that temporarily quickens some vital process or the functional activity of some organ or part: Adrenalin is a stimulant for the heart. Compare depressant (def 4).
- stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stingbull — Trachinus draco, a species of fish with venomous spines on their dorsal fins that are capable of wounding humans
- stipulate — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- strifeful — vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism: to be at strife.
- strobilus — a reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop.
- stub nail — a short, thick nail.
- studiable — application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge, as by reading, investigation, or reflection: long hours of study.
- stumbling — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- suability — liable to be sued; capable of being sued.
- sublation — to deny or contradict; negate.
- sublimate — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- sublimity — the state or quality of being sublime.
- submittal — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).