9-letter words containing u, t, i, s
- stink out — to emit a strong offensive smell.
- stipulate — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- stirabout — porridge.
- stitch up — sew a wound
- striature — the way something is striated
- stricture — a remark or comment, especially an adverse criticism: The reviewer made several strictures upon the author's style.
- strifeful — vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism: to be at strife.
- strike up — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- strikeout — an out made by a batter to whom three strikes have been charged, or as recorded by the pitcher who accomplishes this.
- string up — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- strip out — to remove the working parts of (a machine)
- strobilus — a reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop.
- 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.
- strouding — a woolly material used to make strouds or blankets
- strumitis — an inflammation of thyroid gland
- strutting — walking or moving with a strut; walking pompously; pompous.
- stub nail — a short, thick nail.
- studiable — application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge, as by reading, investigation, or reflection: long hours of study.
- stumbling — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- stupefied — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- stupidest — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
- stupidity — the state, quality, or fact of being stupid.
- suability — liable to be sued; capable of being sued.
- sub-tribe — any aggregate of people united by ties of descent from a common ancestor, community of customs and traditions, adherence to the same leaders, etc.
- subaction — an act of subduing
- subarctic — of, pertaining to, similar to, or being the region immediately south of the Arctic Circle; subpolar.
- subatomic — of or relating to a process that occurs within an atom.
- subcavity — a cavity within a larger cavity
- subeditor — a subordinate or junior editor.
- subentire — (of parts of plants) slightly indented
- sublation — to deny or contradict; negate.
- sublimate — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- sublimity — the state or quality of being sublime.
- submatrix — a set of certain rows and columns of a given matrix.
- submittal — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- submitter — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- subscript — written below (distinguished from adscript, superscript).
- subtility — subtlety.
- subtilize — to elevate in character; sublimate.
- subtitled — with dialogue on screen
- subtitles — a written translation superimposed on a film or television programme that has foreign dialogue
- subtorrid — subtropical (def 2).
- subwriter — a person carrying out writing tasks for another writer
- succinate — a salt or ester of succinic acid.
- succinite — Baltic or 'true' amber, so called because of the succinic acid in the fossil resin: often incorrectly applied to fossilized resin (amber) generally
- suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- suetonius — (Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus) a.d. 75–150, Roman historian.
- sugar tit — a piece of cloth containing moist sugar, wrapped to resemble a nipple and used to pacify an infant.