9-letter words starting with s
- scruffily — in an unkempt or shabby fashion
- scrumdown — the forming of a scrum in rugby
- scrummage — scrum (defs 1, 3).
- scrunched — to crunch, crush, or crumple.
- scrunchie — an elastic band covered with gathered fabric, used to fasten the hair, as in a ponytail.
- scrutable — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
- scrutator — a person who investigates.
- scrutoire — writing desk (def 1).
- scuddaler — a leader of festivities
- scuffling — to struggle or fight in a rough, confused manner.
- sculpture — the art of carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions, as in relief, intaglio, or in the round.
- scumboard — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- scummiest — consisting of or having scum.
- scuncheon — sconcheon.
- scundered — embarrassed
- scungille — the meat of a mollusc or conch, eaten as a delicacy
- scungilli — the edible part of a conch
- scunnered — an irrational dislike; loathing: She took a scunner to him.
- scuppered — Military. to overwhelm; surprise and destroy, disable, or massacre.
- scurrying — to go or move quickly or in haste.
- scut work — work that is regarded as tedious and routine or menial
- scutcheon — escutcheon.
- scutellum — Botany. the shieldlike cotyledon of certain monocots.
- scutiform — being in the shape of a shield; shield-shaped.
- scuttling — to run with quick, hasty steps; scurry.
- scuzzball — Also called scuzzball [skuhz-bawl] /ˈskʌzˌbɔl/ (Show IPA), scuzzbucket [skuhz-buhk-it] /ˈskʌzˌbʌk ɪt/ (Show IPA). a dirty, grimy, sordid, or repulsive person or thing.
- scybalous — of or relating to scybalum
- sdr-sdram — Single Data Rate Random Access Memory
- se tenant — a group of stamps that differ in color, value, or design but are printed together on the same sheet and are collected without separating the stamps.
- se'nnight — a week.
- se-tenant — a group of stamps that differ in color, value, or design but are printed together on the same sheet and are collected without separating the stamps.
- sea aster — a composite perennial plant of salt marshes, Aster tripolium, having yellow and purple flowers like those of the related Michaelmas daisy
- sea blite — any of several halophytic herbs of the genus Suaeda, having fleshy leaves.
- sea bread — ship biscuit; hardtack.
- sea bream — any of numerous marine sparid fishes, as Pagellus centrodontus, inhabiting waters off the coasts of Europe.
- sea chest — a fitting in a hull below the water line, for admitting or discharging water.
- sea dayak — Iban (def 1).
- sea devil — manta (def 4).
- sea eagle — any of several large eagles of the genus Haliaetus, that usually feed on fish.
- sea fight — a fight between ships at sea.
- sea front — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- sea gauge — an automatic sounding device registering the depth to which it is lowered.
- sea grape — a tropical American tree, Coccoloba uvifera, of the buckwheat family, bearing grapelike clusters of edible purple berries.
- sea grass — grass which grows by the sea, or in shallow sea water
- sea green — a clear, light, bluish green.
- sea heath — a small tough perennial plant, Frankenia laevis, of Eurasian salt marshes, having minute leaves and pink flowers: family Frankeniaceae
- sea holly — the eryngo, Eryngium maritimum.
- sea horse — any fish of the genus Hippocampus, of the pipefish family, having a prehensile tail, an elongated snout, and a head bent at right angles to the body.
- sea level — the horizontal plane or level corresponding to the surface of the sea at mean level between high and low tide.
- sea mouse — any of several large, marine annelids of the genus Aphrodite and related genera, having a covering of long, fine, hairlike setae.