9-letter words containing t, o, r, s, l
- saltatory — pertaining to or adapted for saltation.
- saltworks — (often used with a plural verb) a building or plant where salt is made.
- salvatore — a male given name.
- salvatory — a place for storing something safely
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- sartorial — of or relating to tailors or their trade: sartorial workmanship.
- sclerotal — a bony area or plate found in the sclerotic (the eyeball covering) of some animals
- sclerotic — Also, scleral. Anatomy. of or relating to the sclera.
- sclerotin — an insoluble protein that serves to stiffen the chitin of the cuticle of arthropods.
- sectorial — of or relating to a sector.
- serotinal — pertaining to or occurring in late summer.
- short leg — a fielding position on the leg side near the batsman's wicket
- shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
- shortlist — a list of those people or items preferred or most likely to be chosen, as winnowed from a longer list of possibilities.
- 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
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- solfatara — a fumarole that gives off only sulfurous gases.
- solicitor — a person who solicits.
- 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.
- solothurn — a city in NW Switzerland, on the Aar River: capital of canton of Solothurn.
- solutizer — any admixture to a substance for promoting or increasing its solubility or that of one or more of its components.
- 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.
- sortilege — the drawing of lots for divination; divination by lot.
- sour salt — crystals of citric acid used as a flavoring in foods, carbonated beverages, and pharmaceuticals.
- southerly — a wind that blows from the south.
- spoliator — a plunderer
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- sportless — without any 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).
- steelwork — steel parts or articles.
- 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.
- stillborn — dead when born.
- stillroom — (in a large house) a room for distilling or for the preparation of special foods and drinks.
- stormless — without storms.
- stornello — a type of short Italian rhyming poem or song which usually contains three lines
- storyless — a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- storyline — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- strap-oil — a beating
- strobilar — of or relating to a strobila
- strobilus — a reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop.
- strokable — appearing pleasant to stroke
- strolling — to walk leisurely as inclination directs; ramble; saunter; take a walk: to stroll along the beach.
- stromboli — an island off the NE coast of Sicily, in the Lipari group.
- strongyle — any nematode of the family Strongylidae, parasitic as an adult in the intestine of mammals, especially horses.