9-Letter Words Starting with S

""Pl. sporangia (-j - ) A single-celled or many-celled structure in which spores are produced, as in fungi, algae, mosses, and ferns. Also called spore case .""

A substance used to kill spores.

A closed body or conceptacle containing one or more masses of spores or sporangia.

Saclike larval stage of some flatworms

The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.

""Any of numerous parasitic protozoans of the class Sporozoa, most of which reproduce sexually and asexually in alternate generations by means of spores. They are frequently transmitted by bloodsucking insects to different hosts, where they cause many serious diseases, such as malaria and coccidiosis.""

A parasitic one-celled animal

Most dapper

Superlatively stylish

Rower perhaps left in ship by crew

He is active

He engages in physical games

Guys who fish or hunt, say

Club members, maybe

Hunters and anglers.

Lotus and pear used to produce seeds

It brightens up a performance

Stage actor may be in it

Flimsy blouse held up in public eye

""Made, paid, or delivered immediately: a spot sale.""

Most uneven, as a performance

Most erratic

Spraddle

Spraddle

For giving it a twist, it's wet at last

Tearing ligaments

Sprattle

Sprattle

Bobbysoxers in usual array

Sprawly

Lying with limbs flung out

Spreading out in an ungainly fashion

Lying untidily

Some farm machines

Some farm machinery

Lawn fertilizer devices

English city in stretching

Afterthought about county town expanding

Opening out

Sprigger

Spriggy

Sprig

What one ply's about? That's right

Full of life

Lively odds justly followed

English word

Springal

South African symbol

A jumper for the South African side

South African animal

Seasonably named dogs.

They're bound to be dogged

Some spaniels

A spaniel without one is more resilient

More elastic

More likely to bounce back, more like May might you say (wordplay)

With elasticity

Bound to come up after 10 across, perhaps

Summers are bound to follow this with the gin

Rained a bit

Caused umbrellas to open

Made umbrellas necessary

Device for lawn owners.

Device for watering

"Let-us-spray" device

Does lawn work

Candy or cone topping

Barely rains

They are quick

Writer on board for runners

Running types!

At top speed.

Action at a track

Going full tilt

Extended canvas shows one escaping soul's distress

Cocktails lacking hard liquor

Wine-and-soda drinks

Wine cocktails

Spritz

Film projector teeth

Some of a bicycle's wheels

Ten-speed components

In season, blossoming (wordplay)

Growing rapidly.

Fresh growth.

Sprucy

Most spirited

Spurgall

Makers of cowboys' goods

Hurried around state, spoke excitedly

Spoke incoherently

Bumbled verbally

One who explodes vocally

Bridge player at club showing hesitation to one who speaks incoherently

Messy part (anagram) - M (wordplay)

Bond's M, perhaps

George Smiley, for one

Squabby

Had words

Had words with most of team with British having drawn blood

When they fought, the little bird was bleeding by the end of it

Bickering pigeon (wordplay)

One having spats

Bickering pigeon?

Quarrels about petty points

Arguments

Squad

Squadron

Squalene

Squalid

In a squalid manner.

Squaller

Squally

Squall

""Scalelike; squamous; as, the squamosal bone as, the squamosal bone""

Spends thoughtlessly

Wastes

Squasher

Squashy

Wily chap is about to reverse current, so I make my way through marshland

Crushing game in golf

Crushing something so that it becomes flat

Suppressing

SQUAT to sit on one's heels

Down-at-heel illegal tenants

Settlers on public lands.

Illegal occupants

Most dumpy workers in group avoiding last time trial

Squatty

Sedentary occupation (wordplay)

In a crouch

SQUAW an American Indian woman

Friends gathering around wife - after end of troubles they cry

Squawk

A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; called also cancer root. Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; called also cancer root.

Close calls

Narrow wins

Close games

More in need of oil

Making mouselike noise

Informers Slang.

Informers: Slang.

Canaries.

Squeal

Easily sickened or disgusted

Fastidious and easily disgusted

Easily sickened or shocked

Cleaned a windshield

Wiped clean, in a way

Pane management tools (wordplay)

Window-washing devices.

Window washers' tools

Squeezer

Avoidable K. P. chore.

Avoidable K.P. chore

Compressing, crushing

Squeg

Monosyllabic word meaning "sat on"

Sat on

Suppressed

Certain retort

Anti-grape stain product (wordplay)

Walks through the mud

Sits on.

Squib

Squid

Squiffy

Squiggle

Curly and looped lines

Curlicues

Squilgee

Squilgee

Squinch

Tenses up, as muscles

Squinny

Squinny

Squinny

Eye chart eyers, at times

Squint

Squinty

Looking with partly closed eyes

One way to be looking cross

Involved in fraud, one in five not looking straight (wordplay)

Squireen

Squirmer

Squirmy

Moving in a twisting or contorted motion

Wriggling uncomfortably

Without question, sir lures wild animals

Flickertails, for example

Nut-eating mammals

Squirter

Squirt

Squishy

Making a walking-in-mud sound

Squoosh

Squoosh

Squush

By a list it gets impaired (wordplay)

What a gyroscope may provide

Monetary policy goal

Get under control

Eliminate fluctuations in

Thwart political unrest abroad, in hegemonic parlance

Groom, for example

Ostler, groom etc

'Blast, mane needs grooming!' is what he often thinks

Chaps looking after beasts in detestable menagerie

Country workers in firm facing threat, not half

Country workers seen as steady and reliable chaps (wordplay)

Horse houses

Abrupt speech patterns

Detached musical notes

Pets rejected famous Roman's clipped bits

Type of desk tray

STAGE to produce for public viewing

Stageful

He may convey properties

Person moving theatre props

Theater crew member

Adjective meaning resembling

Staggard

Staggart

The buck began to fall over greed

Hit with a haymaker

The buck nearly fell for greed

Surprising statement: Colloq

Surprising statement Colloq.

Staggy

British armed reconnaissance car.

One whose quarry is sought and abused (wordplay)

Hunting dog

The theatrical behaviour of 11 across (wordplay)

One buck in the start of what's theatrical

Only for blokes, girl shows sluggishness

Lack of flow

Given one buck, she is still bad

Got stuck in a rut

Was in a rut

Hit the doldrums

Ceases to flow

Rump of venison possibly festers

Lacks activity

There's nothing exciting for Des's saint

Tarnish, with bit of dirt, symbol of Superman's composure

Sober quality of Thames-side town restricting daughter and son

Like white dresses and unfinished wood

Lest a sin's done without it (wordplay)

This steel contains chromium

Kind of steel

Steps up (wordplay)

Way down in a well (wordplay)

Connecting flight (wordplay)

Railing sites

Escalators

Tongue-twisting clergyman's to be corseted for flights

Flight case (wordplay)

Shaft peer report by Spring

Space flight takes one into sun source

Observances of the law

Surveillances in anticipation of crime

Surveillance jobs

Reason for marital breakup (wordplay)

Old fellow's tie (wordplay)

Reason for marital breakup?

Lack of originality.

Quality of old bread

Lack of being fresh

Stalky

Having no stalk.

Megan's namesakes (wordplay)

The last equine felines at last

Horses named for their enclosures

Brave sturdy persons

Strong and faithful supporters

Dogged souls

Brave; bold; strong; redoubted; daring; vehement; violent.

Designating pollen-bearing flowers.

Wasn't confident, say

Emulated Mel Tillis

Spoke like Bob Newhart

Person with a speech problem

Speaker with a stutter

He hems and haws

Ran wildly, as a buffalo herd

Ran wild, as cattle

Made off frightfully fast

Calgary rodeo rider, perhaps

Panicker of steers.

When Peter's mad he panics

Horse races (wordplay)

Wild headlong rushes of animals

Annual Calgary events

Like "no postage necessary" letters

Stancher

Stanch

Stanch

Upright bar or beam

Vertical support post

Chain's not unhooked from post

Are moral principles flagging (wordplay)

Exemplary colours (wordplay)

Norms in flags (wordplay)

Keep clear of one of 11 across

Hooperatings, for instance

Sports-page feature

Sports-page listings

Ties, in ball games.

Things conspicuous for their excellence

Recalcitrant members of a group.

Preeminent examples

Fire hose hookup

Temporary water outlet

Tall water tank

Horse-drawn carriages

One-seat carriages

Horse-drawn high-seaters

Stannite

Of or pertaining to stapes.

Stapelia

That's right!

Right light on ship (wordplay)

Right (at sea)

More rigid

More stiff and formal - like collar (wordplay)

STARCH to stiffen a fabric

What's in the tail is about to be overhead to make it stiff

Stardust

Juicy treat from Southeast Asia

Edible Malaysian export

Sweet treat from Southeast Asia

Used a telescope

Looked raptly

Daydreamed

Galileo, for one

Galileo, for one.

Copernicus, for one

Is a night watchman (wordplay)

Enjoys a cloudless night, perhaps

Has night vision (wordplay)

Bald head can be severe condition

Desolation

Beginning in the heavens, there's nothing elaborate with this

Planetarium re-creation

Sailor bitten by little rays

Dim night-time illumination

Birds the seaman chucks outside

Sailor hangs around for birds

Al strings the birds along

Starnose

Most brilliant small time lags inside

Like the clearest nights

Describing Old Glory.

The 'Enterprise' and others

Means of interstellar travel

Enterprise and others

They make sudden appearances

They may make you jump

They surprise

What a surprise to begin with the fish!

Begin with fish? Amazing!

Cast drinking bitter, and staggering!

Chickweeds

That can be asserted Var.

That can be asserted variable

For Hawaii and Alaska (wordplay)

Territory's future, perhaps

For Hawaii and Alaska?

Like the man without a country

Like Edward Snowden

Without a country.

More pompous part of 7's workshop

More statuesque

More magnificent

Saint was cannibal? Time for disclosure!

New Testament revelation (wordplay)

Announcement, issued by the bank say