9-letter words containing t, o, r, a, l
- sectorial — of or relating to a sector.
- serotinal — pertaining to or occurring in late summer.
- shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
- shortwall — pertaining to a means of extracting coal when the working face is about a third the length of the longwall system and mining is done by a continuous cutter rather than by longwall machinery.
- sibilator — someone who whistles
- simulator — a person or thing that simulates.
- slavocrat — (in the US before the Civil War) a slaveholder, or an advocate of slavery
- solfatara — a fumarole that gives off only sulfurous gases.
- solitaire — Also called patience. any of various games played by one person with one or more regular 52-card packs, part or all of which are usually dealt out according to a given pattern, the object being to arrange the cards in a predetermined manner.
- 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.
- spoliator — a plunderer
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- stalworth — stalwart.
- stavropol — a territory of the Russian Federation in Europe, N of the Caucasus. 29,600 sq. mi. (76,960 sq. km).
- stercoral — stercoraceous
- 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.
- strap-oil — a beating
- strobilar — of or relating to a strobila
- strokable — appearing pleasant to stroke
- suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
- 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.
- tabulator — a person or thing that tabulates.
- tailboard — the tailgate, especially of a wagon or truck.
- tailoress — a female tailor
- tailoring — a person whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes, especially suits, coats, and other outer garments.
- talk over — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- tamarillo — the edible, plumlike fruit of a tree, Cyphomandra betacea, of the nightshade family, native to the Peruvian Andes.
- taylorism — a modified form of Calvinism that maintains that every person has a free will, and that makes a distinction between depravity, as the tendency to commit sins, and sin, as a voluntary choice of evil actions.
- taylorite — a modified form of Calvinism that maintains that every person has a free will, and that makes a distinction between depravity, as the tendency to commit sins, and sin, as a voluntary choice of evil actions.
- tectorial — a rooflike structure.
- teleosaur — a type of crocodile from the Jurassic period
- tentorial — Anatomy. an extension of one of the membranes covering the cerebrum which, with the transverse fissure, separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- tetralogy — a series of four related dramas, operas, novels, etc.
- textorial — relating to weaving or weavers
- theolatry — worship of a deity.
- thralldom — the state of being a thrall; bondage; slavery; servitude.
- thyroidal — of or relating to the thyroid gland
- tolerable — capable of being tolerated; endurable: His arrogance is no longer tolerable.
- tolerably — capable of being tolerated; endurable: His arrogance is no longer tolerable.
- tolerance — a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
- tolerator — to allow the existence, presence, practice, or act of without prohibition or hindrance; permit.
- toll road — a road or highway on which a toll is exacted.
- tonsillar — a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.
- tonsorial — of or relating to a barber or barbering: the tonsorial shop.
- toolmaker — a machinist skilled in the building and reconditioning of tools, jigs, and related devices used in a machine shop.
- torchable — able to be torched or set alight
- torsional — the act of twisting.