9-letter words containing y, t, s
- skyrocket — a rocket firework that ascends into the air and explodes at a height, usually in a brilliant array of sparks of one or more colors.
- slaistery — resembling slaister
- slantways — aslant; obliquely.
- slit-eyed — with eyes nearly closed
- snow tyre — a motor vehicle tyre with deep treads and ridges to give improved grip on snow and ice
- sob story — an excessively sentimental human-interest story.
- sociality — social nature or tendencies as shown in the assembling of individuals in communities.
- soft copy — computer output displayed on the screen of a VDT (opposed to hard copy).
- solemnity — the state or character of being solemn; earnestness; gravity; impressiveness: the solemnity of a state funeral.
- solvently — able to pay all just debts.
- sonnetary — relating to sonnets
- sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
- sotomayor — ˈSonia (Maria) (ˈsoʊnjə ) ; sōnˈyə) 1954- ; associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court (2009- )
- sottishly — in a sottish manner
- southbury — a town in S Connecticut.
- southerly — a wind that blows from the south.
- spagyrist — an alchemist
- spatially — of or relating to space.
- specialty — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
- spinosity — the condition of being spinose
- spiny rat — any of various ratlike rodents of the genus Echimys, inhabiting forests of Central and South America, most having bristly fur.
- spirality — the spiral nature of a curve
- splayfoot — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- splintery — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- spluttery — tending to splutter: spluttery fire sparks.
- sporocyst — a walled body resulting from the multiple division of a sporozoan, which produces one or more sporozoites.
- sporocyte — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sprightly — animated or vivacious; lively.
- spymaster — an espionage agent who directs a network of subordinate agents.
- squattily — in a somewhat squat manner or shape
- st. marys — a river in SE Georgia, forming the E border with Florida, flowing from the Okefenokee Swamp E to the Atlantic Ocean. 175 miles (282 km) long.
- stability — the state or quality of being stable.
- stableboy — a person who works in a stable.
- stagnancy — not flowing or running, as water, air, etc.
- stagyrite — a native or inhabitant of Stagira.
- staminody — the metamorphosis of any of various flower organs, as a sepal or a petal, into a stamen.
- standaway — (of a garment) designed or constructed to stand upright or extend outward from the body: a standaway collar.
- staphylo- — uvula
- star lily — a lily, Lilium concolor, of China, having erect, somewhat fragrant, bright-red flowers.
- star ruby — a ruby that resembles a starlike figure in reflected light because of its crystalline structure
- staringly — in a staring way
- statelily — in a stately or dignified manner
- 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.
- statocyst — (in certain invertebrates) a sense organ consisting of a sac enclosing sensory hairs and particles of sand, lime, etc., that functions in maintaining equilibrium, serving to indicate position in space.
- statutory — of, relating to, or of the nature of a statute.
- staunchly — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- stay over — spend the night
- stay with — to spend some time in a place, in a situation, with a person or group, etc.: He stayed in the army for ten years.
- staymaker — a corset maker, a maker of stays
- steelyard — a portable balance with two unequal arms, the longer one having a movable counterpoise and the shorter one bearing a hook or the like for holding the object to be weighed.