9-letter words containing t, r, o, s, i
- stillroom — (in a large house) a room for distilling or for the preparation of special foods and drinks.
- stinkaroo — something markedly inferior in quality: a stinkaroo of a motion picture.
- stinkeroo — a bad or contemptible person or thing
- stinkhorn — any of various rank-smelling, brown-capped mushrooms of the genus Phallus, especially P. impudicus.
- stirabout — porridge.
- store pig — a pig that has not yet been weaned and weighs less than 40 kg
- storeship — a government-owned ship that carries supplies to a naval fleet
- storewide — applying to all the merchandise or all the departments within a store: the annual storewide clearance sale.
- storiette — a very short narrative
- storm pit — a storm cellar.
- stormbird — any bird of several species of black, white, or grey seabirds belonging to the order Procellariiformes
- 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
- stratonic — of or relating to an army
- striation — striated condition or appearance.
- striction — the act of constricting.
- strikeout — an out made by a batter to whom three strikes have been charged, or as recorded by the pitcher who accomplishes this.
- strip off — remove clothes
- strip out — to remove the working parts of (a machine)
- 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.
- 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.
- strongish — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- strontian — strontianite.
- strontium — a bivalent, metallic element whose compounds resemble those of calcium, found in nature only in the combined state, as in strontianite: used in fireworks, flares, and tracer bullets. Symbol: Sr; atomic weight: 87.62; atomic number: 38; specific gravity: 2.6.
- strophoid — a plane curve generated by the loci of points p and pprime; on a straight line that intersects the y-axis at a point n and the minus x-axis at a fixed point q, such that pn = npprime; = on, as on changes, where o is the origin. Equation: y 2 = x 2 (x + a)/(a − x).
- strouding — a woolly material used to make strouds or blankets
- styliform — having the shape of an ancient style; stylar.
- subeditor — a subordinate or junior editor.
- subtorrid — subtropical (def 2).
- suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.
- 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.
- tailoress — a female tailor
- 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.
- televisor — an apparatus for transmitting or receiving television.
- temporise — to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
- tensioner — an instrument for adding tension
- teratosis — teratism (def 2).
- terrorise — to fill or overcome with terror.
- terrorism — the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.
- terrorist — a person, usually a member of a group, who uses or advocates terrorism.
- theorised — to form a theory or theories.
- thyristor — a semiconductor device having two stable states, used as an electronic switch.
- timisoara — a city in W Romania.
- timor sea — an arm of the Indian Ocean, between Timor and NW Australia.
- timorsome — timorous; timid
- to rights — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.