9-Letter Words Starting with S

Gestured behind the stumps (wordplay)

Shown design fault, set about everyone

Flagged down variable

Without exception resign, upset about the railwayman

He sent 'England expects...' to the fleet; an indication to go for the French

Main slang (anagram)

Military communications expert

Conspicuous chap, possibly a flasher

Communicators are remarkable people

Railroad employees

Semaphore pros

John Hancock, famously

Indicate a politician's one in agreement

Hire a conservative for proclamation party

Is over Midge Ure's autograph!

Button Gwinnett's claim to fame.

Is over Midge Ure's autograph

One place for advertising

Advertiser's medium

Where business name may be displayed

Miss Italy (wordplay)

Miss cue on air - sorry!

Young lady from Rome (wordplay)

Silicate

Silicula

""(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a fine smooth cotton fabric used for linings, etc. [from silk + -aline, from -oline as in crinoline ]""

Sillabub

Siloxane

A sedimentary material consisting of very fine particles intermediate in size between sand and clay.

Simaruba

Simazine

In like manner

In the same vein

Likewise.

Ecclesiastical traffickers

Likeable, easy to get on with

On the same page

Of like mind

Simplex

Representations (of someone/something)

Kind of light chemical is raising images

Curve on mineral is coming up in images

Archaic A simulacrum.

Simulant

Feigned, imitated

Pretended to be excited with temperature dropping

Must I deal with one that's so pretending (wordplay)

Resembles a slum site perhaps

Miss around you of late in no original manner

Feigns.

Machine for training, eg, pilots

Device replicating external conditions

Flight training equipment

Program on radio and TV at same time.

It's carried by radio and TV

Concurrent program airing

Sinapism

Foreheads

Individuals

Opposite of dextral

Left-handed.

Left-handed

Sinuate

Sirenian

Indian lute players

Finding a spot for.

Putting into context

It was critical for Ultra Nate

It might be sticky

It's a job to get one into a suit

Sitzmark

""SJAMBOK in South Africa to strike with a whip, also JAMBOK""

Kelvin, journalist in charge? Run away!

Run off hurriedly (colloq.)

See instructions (nonverbal)

Having one's doubts

American's dubious arrangement of kilt with capes

Doubtful

Skewback

Brown-and-white horses

Skiagram

They like close shaves

Subculture influenced by Jamaican rude boys

Those not shocked as youths rudely kiss hand holding tablet

Certain fish... or sailboats

Certain fish ... or sailboats

Cold weather Transportation

Crafts that can land in the snow

Vehicles in cold conditions avoid roads

""A leaping or jumping movement, especially a gait in which hops and steps alternate.""

Beanies and yarmulkes

Brimless headwear

Religious wear

Skyjack

Person who highjacks an aeroplane

Modern pirate

Modern pirate runs after sailor within island

Frolicked

SKYLARK to {frolic=v}

Slabber

Let up

Eased

Laxity

Slaggy

Going on one ski

Zigzagging through the course

Zigzag activity

Dragged through the mud, maybe

What Mrs. Slipslop did.

Attacked the good name of

Owner of a bad tongue.

One who defames another

One's words may lead to action

Most addicted to jive.

Least formal

Shoptalk, for example

Hybrid term for colorful vocabulary

Colorful vocabulary

Obliquely

Obliquely.

Discontented social worker knowing one's inclined to appear thus

Oblique

Whack a dwarf (wordplay)

Insult Mrs. Rockefeller?

Insult Mrs. Rockefeller (wordplay)

Slapjack

Staff going on strike? It's Ludicrous!

Sennett proceedings (wordplay)

Humour based on clumsiness

Forest debris

Adjective meaning resembling

Put on lavishly

Laid on thick

Used wastefully

Untidy women mislaid Len's tarts

Promiscuous women

Materials for venetians

Killing (of farm animals)

Start to shake with mirth that's killing

Fall about in almost relentless defeat

Slaverer

Slavery

Group of serfs, drooling (wordplay)

In need of a bib, maybe

Oppressed person on phone exuding drivel

Foxy Liberal secured for Strictly

In the manner of a servant that's wasteful, cloaked in cunning

Unprincipled man (slang)

Contemptible type

Real creep

Most flimsy.

Most lowbrow

Go out when you've gone out (wordplay)

One way to travel at night (wordplay)

Travel at night, perhaps

Here are Le Pew's pajamas

Retirement attire

Like deli meats

Odious creatures dressed in black may well be cut

Slideway

Despicable sort

Repulsive person - slippery sphere (wordplay)

Sleazy weasel

Like some fine books

Book holders

Slippage

Slipware

A coiner of catchphrases

Ad agency specialist

Speaker of trite phrases

SLOGAN a motto adopted by a group

Offensive football players

Lazy ones

Sluggard

Artificial channel for water

Smallage

Diminutive condition

Insignificance.

Smaltine

Smaltite

Smaragde

Least sincere

Most unctuous

Most ingratiating

Made neater by tradesmen

Wised (up)

Got wise, with "up"

Clean and tidy quality

Bright cape shows style

Chic to irritate the head

Would this elude a gardener (wordplay)

Would this elude a gardener?

Learned superficially

Dabbled in

Dabbled

One with superficial knowledge

Cottage cheese, to some

Cottage cheese

Cottage cheese.

Most messy, as makeup

Least waterproof, as mascara

Most bedaubed.

English word

SMOKE to emit a gas or vapour due to burning

A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.

Taking supporters back with cast

Snaggy

Very slow, as a pace

Very slow

Sluggish

Long-necked bird allied to cormorant

Slithering Racer X song (wordplay)

Drink (dangerous if given by 18!)

Poisonous drink (wordplay)

Twisting

Ophidian

Reputed rattler bite remedy [2001]

Rattler-bite remedy, supposedly

Medicinal plant.

Rattler's relatives (wordplay)

Small-scale stuff

Expensive leather from reptiles

Plant used as an astringent

Informal name for bistort, also describing its twisted roots

Snapback

Making inept pass, gets most irascible

Most like Dorothy Parker's comebacks

Like the one speaking most irritably

Get pictures at a bar (wordplay)

Cellphone creations, sometimes

Photo album collection

Snapweed

Snarky

Snarly

Sci-fi villains in a '56 film

Takers

Snatchy

Pickpocket's activity

Chants getting their hands on the gin

Grasping eagerly

Maximally chi-chi

Flashier than all others

SNEAKER one that {sneaks=v}

Least trustworthy

Most indirect

Drinks made from mushrooms (wordplay)

Increases at an accelerating rate

Rockets currently do within ship

White masses

Roadside accumulations for Hank and Tyra (wordplay)

Go downhill fast (wordplay)

Treasury Department panel (wordplay)

Way to go... downhill

Snowfall

Canadian crystal (wordplay)

It can't be cloned

Hexagonal sign of winter

Snowland

Machine on the slopes

Arctic masses

Winter view

Christmas scene? Sons wrapping present, piece of clothing

Soapbark

""Tree Any tree of the genus Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; also called soap tree. Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; also called soap tree.""

Political platforms (wordplay)

Orators stand on them

Park podia

Quality of "Smash" or "Empire"

Quality of 'Smash' or 'Empire'

Unctuous quality

Marker for style of TV serial (wordplay)

Teaspoons made of steatite (wordplay)

Soft form of rock

Soapwort

Sociable

""SOCIAL a friendly gathering, also SOCIABLE""

Left-wing philosophy

Part 4 of today's quote

System espoused by Debs

Marx, for one

Politician of the left

Thomas or Bevan.

Park Avenue resident.

Claudia Cohen, for example

Prominent attendee at fashionable events

Fellowship.

Mix at a party

Convert to public ownership, as industry

English word

One without a conscience

A Scot, I hop about as one with psychological disorder

Sodalist

Sodalite

Sodamide

Softback

As used in a form of rounders

Easy-to-answer questions

Softhead

Software

Map cases

Solanine

Solarise

Solarise

Solarism

Rooms equipped with sun-beds

Glass-enclosed rooms

Solarize

Solarize

Solation

Bottom of a flatiron

Iron's base

""A volcanic area or vent which yields only sulphur vapors, steam, and the like. It represents the stages of the volcanic activity.""

Solidago

Game for one

Diamond; game for one

*Diamond in an engagement ring, perhaps*

""(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a type of intrazonal soil of arid regions with a greyish surface crust: contains large quantities of soluble salts [Russian, literally: salt marsh]""

Solvate

SOLVATE to convert into a type of ion

Here or there

At an unspecified location

In an unspecified location

Somewhat

Light classical pieces

Some Beethoven works

Short classical compositions.

SONIC pertaining to sound

Sonicate

Sonicate

Prenatal pictures

Sonorant

""Firmly fixed in, or founded upon, the thruth; true; genuine; real; also, truthful; faithful.""

Soothsay

Soothsay

""A crisp, puffy, deep-fried pastry often served with honey or syrup.""

High-sounding instrument

Instrument with the highest possible pitch

Instrument son on air plays with restrained piano (wordplay)

Easily angered folks

Easily offended people

Hot-tempered ones

Sororate

Capable of being sounded.

Sweets for a grouch (wordplay)

They're hard and tart

Lemonheads and Cry Babies

Soutache

Location of Wexford, say

Waco-to-Galveston direction

Cape of Tasmania.

Dixie

Ford and Guidry

Messrs. Koslo, Lopat, Roe.

Spahn and Koufax, for two

In the direction of Cork, say

In the direction of Waterford, say

In the direction of Spain

Lamb Kabobs