9-letter words containing t, o, a, d, s
- satinwood — the satiny wood of an East Indian tree, Chloroxylon swietenia, of the rue family, used especially for making furniture.
- seed coat — the outer integument of a seed.
- short-day — requiring a short photoperiod.
- shorthand — a method of rapid handwriting using simple strokes, abbreviations, or symbols that designate letters, words, or phrases (distinguished from longhand).
- shorthead — a brachycephalic person.
- soft-land — to cause to land slowly and without jarring impact: to soft-land the module on the planet's surface.
- softboard — a soft, porous particle board.
- sorediate — having soredia
- southland — a southern area.
- southward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
- spadefoot — spadefoot toad.
- speedboat — a motorboat designed for high speeds.
- spot card — spot (def 10b).
- staghound — a hound trained to hunt stags and other large animals.
- stair rod — a rod for holding a stair carpet in place against the bottom of a riser.
- staminode — a sterile or abortive stamen.
- staminody — the metamorphosis of any of various flower organs, as a sepal or a petal, into a stamen.
- staminoid — like a stamen
- stand for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- stand off — a standing off or apart; aloofness.
- stand oil — a thick oil made by heating linseed oil to temperatures of 600°F and higher, used chiefly as a medium in paints.
- stand out — something or someone, as a person, performance, etc., remarkably superior to others: Evans was a standout in the mixed doubles.
- stand-off — a standing off or apart; aloofness.
- stand-out — something or someone, as a person, performance, etc., remarkably superior to others: Evans was a standout in the mixed doubles.
- standdown — the action of ending military activities or active duty temporarily, or a period or condition of being temporarily relieved from active duty
- standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
- starboard — the right-hand side of or direction from a vessel or aircraft, facing forward.
- stasidion — a choir stall in an Orthodox church.
- statehood — the status or condition of being a state, especially a state of the U.S.
- stationed — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- 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.
- stockyard — an enclosure with pens, sheds, etc., connected with a slaughterhouse, railroad, market, etc., for the temporary housing of cattle, sheep, swine, or horses.
- stonehand — a person who arranges type and imposes pages on an imposing stone
- stop bead — a strip of molding along the inside of a window frame for holding a sliding sash.
- storecard — A storecard is a plastic card that you use to buy goods on credit from a particular store or group of stores.
- stourhead — a Palladian mansion near Mere in Wiltshire: built (1722) for Henry Hoare; famous for its landscaped gardens laid out (1741) by Flitcroft
- strafford — 1st Earl of (Thomas Wentworth) 1593–1641, English statesman: chief adviser of Charles I of England.
- strappado — an old form of punishment or torture in which the victim, with arms bound behind, was raised from the ground by a rope fastened to the wrists, abruptly released, then arrested with a painful jerk just before reaching the ground.
- stratford — a town in SW Connecticut, near Bridgeport: Shakespeare theater.
- swordtail — any of several small, brightly colored, viviparous, freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, native to Central America, having the lower part of the caudal fin elongated into a swordlike structure: often kept in aquariums.
- take odds — to accept such a bet
- theodosia — a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “god-given.”.
- thousands — a cardinal number, 10 times 100.
- toad spit — cuckoo spit (sense 1)
- toadshade — a plant, Trillium sessile, of the lily family, native to the southeastern U.S., having broad, mottled leaves and a solitary purplish or greenish flower.
- 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.
- toadstool — any of various mushrooms having a stalk with an umbrellalike cap, especially the agarics.
- 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).
- transcode — (language) An early system on the Ferut computer.
- unroasted — not roasted or cooked over dry heat