9-Letter Words Starting with S

Semicoma

DWARF extremely small

Culmination of a truck race (wordplay)

Not a fully detached game!

A red and blue one approaches!

Shaped like a half-moon

Crescent-shaped

""MATTE to produce a dull finish on, also MATT""

Arsenic is one

Arsenic or antimony

In an innovative and memorable way

From the very beginning

Seems that half the North is on your side in such a seedy way

""NOMAD a wanderer, also NOMADE""

Like some suburbs

Slightly built-up

Between urban and country

TONAL pertaining to tone

Varieties of wheat

Pasta flours

She cleans out for the steward

Clash seen to be dealt with by steward

Figure in authority.

Term of address to a Portuguese girl

Lisbon miss

Duena's charges

Misses, in Mexico

Mademoiselles, across the border

SENSATE to {sense=v}

Sensate

Sonnet is a wow!

A figurative bombshell.

Feeling a sonnet is terrible

Sensilla

Of the center of feeling.

In a self-indulgent way.

How some massages are done

In a seductive way

Pl. sententiae (-sh - ) An adage or aphorism.

Not too tight (wordplay)

Unlike bosom buddies

Not totally fused

How one took a part (wordplay)

Isolated copies retrospectively valued

How Kipling saw East and West.

Parts of a lady's wardrobe (wordplay)

Becomes layered while settling

Women's garments

Opera star (anagram)

What keeps things apart

It divides cream and milk

A limestone nodule

Quality or state of being sequacious; sequaciousness.

Plural of sequestrum .

Palatial living quarters

Turkish palace areas

Harems.

Angels

Sung to (from below window)

Did a number on (wordplay)

Went a-courting, perhaps

One playing to the balcony (wordplay)

Guitar player outside window

Wooer, perhaps

Strains at someone's window, maybe

Strains at the balcony

Music under a jalousie.

Handel's "secular odes."

Orchestral compositions having several movements.

The office of a sergeant; sergeantship.

They're good at drilling (wordplay)

Nuisance at a haberdashery (wordplay)

Drilling experts (wordplay)

""Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only.""

SERIAL a publication presented in instalments

Twelve-tone compositional method

Twelve-note compositional system

Dickens was one

Schoenberg or Berg, musically

Writer for a TV drama, for example

Publish, in a way.

Publish in a certain way.

Broadcast in regular installments

SERIATE to put in a series

Seriate

Screen print grips Hera strangely

A colour print made by an adaptation of the silk-screen process

Serjeant

""SERJEANT a noncommissioned military officer, also SERGEANT""

SEROTINE a European bat

Serranid

Making like one saw it

Cutting edge feature (wordplay)

At last an allowance of teeth

One saw with this that's all on edge

Sesamoid

A lesson is revised termly

Of a court sitting.

Pertaining to a meeting.

Thousand-sesterce amounts

Anc. Roman units of value.

""Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail. as, a stiff, setaceous tail.""

Setenant

Capable of being severed.

Cut and then join together one by one

One at a time

Not all together

""A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right.""

Last check, maybe

Cabbage for canning (wordplay)

Dismissal from employment

Sewerage

Plural noun or verb form

State that may be fluid (wordplay)

Wrongly say I exult in carnal desires

Gender preference

To attribute sex to.

Farewell to sadness from Paul Eluard

Forced, with sudden emphasis (music)

How to make zoo so emphatically loud

Emphatically, in music

Sforzato

Decorative works made by scratching off surface layers

""Scratched; said of decorative painting of a certain style, in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through, so as to form the design from a dark ground underneath.""

Shabby

Handcuffers.

Securing a poor building built on heather

SHADE to screen from light or heat

Shadblow

Shadchan

Shaddock

Without shelter from the sun

Shadfly

State of doubtful legality

Relative darkness

Disreputable quality some youths had in Essex

Fight without an opponent (wordplay)

Fight the imaginary (wordplay)

Display case of sorts

Gumshoes, often

Followers

Shadowy

SHADOW to make dark or gloomy

Fish is on one's tail (wordplay)

Tailing

Tailing.

Shadrach

Shafting

Shagbark

Most in need of a haircut

Rawhides

Marten eats fish that can be agitated

Ship's crew's rehearsal

Cold drink taken - and so to bed

Hawked son about in kind of extortion

Downsizings

Insecurity

Instability

Shalloon

Shallow

Preferable for new swimmers

One will not be so deeply in debt

Comparatively superficial

In a superficial manner

Secretive about worship, in a way that lacks depth

Animistic religion of northern Asia

Fellow is taken in by false form of religion

Spurious sort of man is producing sorcery

Believer in good and evil spirits

Shuffling along

Making shaky progress with fake jewellery

In a total mess

Chaotic and inefficient

Confused clash involving mob I fancy

Modest; shamefaced.

Brazenly showing no regret

Longest-running Showtime show

Word for Shakespeare's Doll Tearsheet.

Shammas

Shammas

Shammy

Shamoy

Did a hair salon job

Hairdresser finds spectacles in small basket

Fake Irish jewelry (wordplay)

Fake jewelry (wordplay)

St. Patrick's Day symbols

Gets a reluctant crew

Kidnaps, in a way.

Shantung

English word

""SHANTY a small, crudely built dwelling""

SHAPE to fashion into a form

Baggy, badly fitting

Lacking in form

Criminal lapses, he's without form

Heels, pair becoming more elegant

Evoking more "hubba-hubbas"

More likely to be watched

Like some big entrees

Work as a tenant farmer

Work land for a portion of the harvest

Work another's farm

Once-popular free computer download

Programs with previews

'Try before you buy' products

Variant of sherif .

Resembling a porbeagle

Fish's relative (wordplay)

Type of suiting.

Shiny suit fabric

Made a point of (wordplay)

End with phrase specially honed

Brushed up

Device for making a point (wordplay)

Gadget on the cutting edge (wordplay)

It makes a point or edge

What a Bramall Lane player may have!

What batsmen need for cuts (wordplay)

Acuity; Severn port

""A dish consisting of marinated cubes of lamb or beef grilled or roasted on a spit, often with slices of eggplant, onion, and tomato; shish kebab.""

Shashlik

Smashed the record (wordplay)

Got a big break (wordplay)

Broken - exhausted (informal)

""A man shaved; hence, a monk, or other religious; used in contempt.""

Recent West Point grad

Second lieutenant, slangily

Second lieutenant: Slang.

Adjective meaning resembling

Shealing

Shearing

A sheep but once sheared.

Scabbard makers

Is she an object for cover (wordplay)

Blab about former PM covering up

Covering of grass around open country

Bird that female navigator found on lake

Duck captured by dissolute rakes

Diving duck with serrated bill

Defeats decisively

The Ancient Mariner

The woman will sponsor old sailor

Island group NE of the Orkneys.

Some ponies or sheepdogs

Small, stocky ponies

See Showbread. Showbread.

Admitting of being shifted.

Shigella

Shigella

Shiitake

Shikaree

Shikar

Cudgel Var.

Cudgel variable

Shillala

Shinleaf

Type of romance (on an ocean liner)

Like some short-lived romances

Shipload

Set with mishap at sea? They hope not!

Ishmael and Starbuck, for two

Crew rescued from damaged steamship

A. A vessel of considerable size for deep-water navigation.

Proper wicked hash pipes!

Very trim - and proud of it, we hear!

Ready to sail; also, neat and clean

Where to set sails (wordplay)

Where some subs are fixed

Liner builders

Young and immature

It may stick out of one's pants

It's usually tucked in

Shivaree

Comic serenades for newlyweds.

Noisy mock serenades to newlyweds

Shmaltz

Shoaly

Capable of being upset by sudden occurrences

Stuffed by white, black can suffer trauma

Boot shiner (wordplay)

One who gives you a shine

Person whose work shines

Tongue twisters (wordplay)

They're often tied up

Breakers at the most inopportune times

One working at court (wordplay)

Oxford man (wordplay)

Oxford's last worker (wordplay)

Shoepack

Former Japanese government

Shoptalk

Heading to land

Toward land

Drawers accept years with deficits

Date in trousers causing supply problems

Runs may cause them

Sweet biscuit - rat chokes (anagram)

Diminutive dessert (wordplay)

Rate shock (anagram)

Want a little snow (wordplay)

What's missing from shower (wordplay)

Deficiency in whisky, perhaps a drop

Pet that doesn't need much brushing, say

Feature of a crew cut.

Result of a buzz cut

Speedwriting by worker of little stature

Girl Friday's forte.

Gregg's system.

Cropped hairdo for radio band (wordplay)

Miniature white horse is on the air

Not a long farewell on the air

What a flashy exhibitionist does in the ring

""Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place.""

Put on exhibit

Exhibited, as one's talent

Displayed to best advantage

Places for trophies

Display cabinets.

Displays what Latin teacher may do to class

Hearst Castle, for one

Beautifully furnished home

Lavishly furnished home

Process of becoming less

A gherkin's pickled, getting smaller

Asking her out is withering experience

Shtetl

Shwanpan

Sialidan

Hissing bird upset pike

Hissing quality

S's, pronouncedly so

Sounds like S for the sound of the girl with insects under her

Sibilate

Sibilate

Sickle cell anemia or sickle cell trait.

Sideband

Dior beads (anagram)

Dining room sight

Dining room piece.

Distract (from big issue)

Distract (from an issue)

Follow team's first draw away

Where al fresco diners sit

Where to "trip the light fantastic."

Cafe locales, often

Some tires have white ones

They come into play in squash

White gangster-tire features

Crab's progress.

Laterally

Like some growth curves

Signaler

Indicating by gestures

Giving a cue

Cuing

Mark, notably a single, is desperate

To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.