9-letter words containing t, r, e, n, s
- 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
- sparteine — a bitter, poisonous, liquid alkaloid obtained from certain species of broom, especially Cytisus scoparius, used in medicine to stimulate the heart and also the uterine muscles in childbirth.
- spearmint — an aromatic herb, Mentha spicata, having lance-shaped leaves used for flavoring.
- sphincter — a circular band of voluntary or involuntary muscle that encircles an orifice of the body or one of its hollow organs.
- spinneret — an organ or part by means of which a spider, insect larva, or the like spins a silky thread for its web or cocoon.
- splintery — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- sportsmen — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- springlet — a small spring of water.
- sprintnet — A public packet-switched network using the ITU-T X.25 protocols, that provides dial-up access to services like Delphi, Portal, GEnie and Compuserve.
- standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
- starshine — starlight
- starstone — a precious stone which has been cut in such a way that it reflects light in a starlike pattern
- state-run — controlled by the government
- stathenry — the electrostatic unit of inductance, equivalent to 8.9876 × 10 11 henries and equal to the inductance of a circuit in which an electromotive force of one statvolt is produced by a current in the circuit which varies at the rate of one statampere per second.
- stationer — a person who sells the materials used in writing, as paper, pens, pencils, and ink.
- stauncher — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- stavanger — a seaport in SW Norway.
- steenbras — a variety of sea bream, Lithognathos lithognathos, valued as a food fish in South Africa
- steenkirk — a type of cravat worn in a loose or disorderly manner
- steerling — a young or small steer
- steersman — a person who steers a ship; helmsman.
- steinberg — Saul, 1914–1999, U.S. painter, cartoonist, and illustrator; born in Romania.
- steinkern — the fossilized outline of a hollow organic structure, as a skull or a mollusk shell, formed when mud or sediment consolidated within the structure and the structure itself disintegrated or dissolved.
- stem turn — a turn in which a skier stems one ski in the direction to be turned and brings the other ski around so that both skis are parallel.
- step turn — a turn in which a skier lifts one ski from the snow, faces the ski slightly outward in the direction to be turned, sets it down, and brings the other ski around so that both skis are parallel.
- steradian — a solid angle at the center of a sphere subtending a section on the surface equal in area to the square of the radius of the sphere. Abbreviation: sr.
- sterilant — a sterilizing agent.
- sternberg — George Miller, 1838–1915, U.S. bacteriologist and medical researcher.
- sternebra — a bone or segment of the breastbone or sternum
- sternfast — a rope for securing a boat at stern to another boat, dock, or buoy
- sternitic — relating to the sternite
- sternmost — farthest aft.
- sternness — firm, strict, or uncompromising: stern discipline.
- sternport — an opening or window in the stern of ship
- sternpost — an upright member rising from the after end of a keel; a rudderpost or propeller post.
- sternward — toward the stern; astern.
- sticheron — a liturgical hymn sung in the Orthodox Church
- stiffener — a person or thing that stiffens.
- stingaree — a stingray.
- stinkeroo — a bad or contemptible person or thing
- stonecrop — any plant of the genus Sedum, especially a mosslike herb, S. acre, having small, fleshy leaves and yellow flowers, frequently growing on rocks and walls.
- stoneware — a hard, opaque, vitrified ceramic ware.
- stonework — any construction, as walls or the like, of stone; stone masonry.
- stonewort — any of a plantlike group of green algae constituting the class Charophyceae, having a jointed body frequently encrusted with lime and usually attached to the bottom in fresh water.
- stonkered — to hit hard; knock unconscious.