9-Letter Words Starting with S

Mexican plant.

SABLE to {darken=v}

Aged boats (anagram)

Undermined by stealth

Undermined an operation

Emulates the syndicalists

Throws a monkey wrench into

Maliciously destroys.

They do harm a boss, true!

Some counterintelligence targets

Criminals rounded up by the F. B. I.

Equestrian's pouch

Rider's large carrier

Container of a kind

Pommel

Intelligent grooming tool (wordplay)

Brainy comber (wordplay)

Nevada's symbol.

Plank for windsurfing

Item rented at beach resorts

Windsurfer's craft

Racing vessels, perhaps

forty-niners, for example

Participants in regattas.

Steep-roofed houses

Early New England houses

Some New England houses

Healthiness.

A bonnet is inappropriate as garment for the condemned

Sandbank

Explosive bunker shot (wordplay)

Clean a wall, one way

Clean, as graffiti from stone

Kids' play places

Often found on winter tees

Backyard play enclosures for kids

Sandburr

Old-time Spanish dance.

Stately Spanish dance

Spanish dance variable

Minuet-like dances

Stately court dances

Minuetlike dances

Sassaby

Capable of being saturated; admitting of saturation.

No gravy train!

The craft of dressing (wordplay)

I keep dressing with audacity, wanting love in the club

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Blade covers bard's cabs

Sheathes for swords, daggers

Sheaths for swords

Scabby

Scabble

Relating to or affected with scabies.

Scabiosa

Scabland

Like bar codes

Like a QR code

Small, agile footballers

A comprehensive case (wordplay)

Pupil's item

A textbook case of fish gathering a singular 1-down (wordplay)

In-form style of humour (wordplay)

Pupil of sorts

Rowe of Tiger fame

Like or pertaining to the Mackerel family.

Descriptive of a scurvy knave (wordplay)

What a scurvy knave may be

Clawed, small crustacean showed sign of injury

SCRABBLE to {scramble=v}

Plays a popular game.

Hurriedly took flight when beaten

Wandered at last to get eggs like this

Eggs whisked and stirred

Motor cyclist egged on (wordplay)

Phone tap foiler

Phone security device

Clears hurriedly off the line (wordplay)

Rushes like a motor cyclist (wordplay)

Panics in the goalmouth (wordplay)

Album, for clippings say

Volume for cuttings, photographs etc.

Album with clippings

Beantown pitch (wordplay)

Tommy's word for his opponent (wordplay)

Hubbell's famed pitch.

English word

Wrote, as a signature on a receipt

Written carelessly

Wrote informally

One jotting quickly, say

Pen for this

Writer of a sort

Some difficult-to-read comments of Norman Lindsay (wordplay)

Jots down

At the Bar they make the bridge clean

Do they bristle when so called (wordplay)

Antipollution devices

Scrubby

Scrub

Uncultivated area

Easy to get

Scumble

Coastal regions

Rocky base affected roads in coastal regions

Searobin

Like oily glands in skin

A morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the skin; stearrhea.

Like; similar; resembling.

In like manner.

Like to have this (wordplay)

Misleading outward appearance

Apparent form

Whole note, to a British composer

Note equal to two minims

Note equivalent to four crotchets

Semihobo

Sensible

Sensible

Not too tight (wordplay)

Unlike bosom buddies

Not totally fused

Capable of being severed.

Shabby

SHADE to screen from light or heat

Shadblow

Fight without an opponent (wordplay)

Fight the imaginary (wordplay)

Display case of sorts

Shagbark

Marten eats fish that can be agitated

Shuffling along

Making shaky progress with fake jewellery

In a total mess

Chaotic and inefficient

Confused clash involving mob I fancy

SHAPE to fashion into a form

Like some big entrees

The Ancient Mariner

The woman will sponsor old sailor

Sherbert

See Showbread. Showbread.

Admitting of being shifted.

Soccer players often guard them

Tibias

Type of romance (on an ocean liner)

Like some short-lived romances

Transported by ship.

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

Capable of being upset by sudden occurrences

Stuffed by white, black can suffer trauma

Wading birds.

Nile birds

Boot shiner (wordplay)

One who gives you a shine

Person whose work shines

Stilt, for example

Stilt, e.g

Dinah and Larry

SHOWBIZ show business

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.""

Area of small bushes

Bushy part of garden

Games pitch out in the garden

Shrubby

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

""Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls.""

Sideband

Dior beads (anagram)

Dining room sight

Dining room piece.

Offstage George (wordplay)

Some facial hair right, perhaps, on poet

Pain in the hip for Bobby (wordplay)

One place for advertising

Advertiser's medium

Where business name may be displayed

Sillabub

Sillibub

Simaruba

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

Skewback

Brown-and-white horses

SKIBOB to travel in a sleigh-type vehicle over snow

Mountain patrol vehicle

Winter transport

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

Slabber

Unprincipled man (slang)

Contemptible type

Real creep

Like deli meats

Odious creatures dressed in black may well be cut

Despicable sort

Repulsive person - slippery sphere (wordplay)

Sleazy weasel

Acted like a baby, in a way

Talked like a toper

Licked, like a dog does

One who slobbers.

Slobby

Offensive football players

Slubber

Slubbing

Lazy ones

Logged Z's

Burdened dragging pole, so rested

Son, given heavy responsibility, slept

One who slumbers; a sleeper.

Inviting or causing sleep

Left in total black, wake up incompletely, continuing to doze

SMOKE to emit a gas or vapour due to burning

Long-necked bird allied to cormorant

Slithering Racer X song (wordplay)

Drink (dangerous if given by 18!)

Poisonous drink (wordplay)

Snapback

Bent boss I found corrupt and most haughty

New leisure pursuits in East End disrupting road, with most affected

Snobbism

Drinks made from mushrooms (wordplay)

Increases at an accelerating rate

Rockets currently do within ship

White masses

Roadside accumulations for Hank and Tyra (wordplay)

European flowers

Snowbelt

Ornamental shrub.

Canadian aerobatic team, with "The"

They flock to Florida in February

They winter in Florida

Go downhill fast (wordplay)

Treasury Department panel (wordplay)

Way to go... downhill

Stuck at home, maybe

Stuck home, perhaps

Ski jump from Whittier (wordplay)

""A spiny shrub (Ceanothus cordulatus) of California and Oregon, having large clusters of small white flowers.""

Snubby

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

Soberize

Soberize

Effect of gravity (wordplay)

Son's beers could undo this

Moderate Head displays serenity

Nickname - Boers quit (anagram)

Byname - Boers quit (anagram)

Person's nickname

Sociable

In the USA, farmer who works the soil

Plow, for example

Farmer who works the soil

Softback

As used in a form of rounders

Easy-to-answer questions

Like later printings, often

English word

Siesta big tops (wordplay)

Dark flower cut for such hats

Cocktails with Kahlua and cream

Nightingales and wrens

Music-making fliers

Flighty vocalists

Glee club handouts

Hymnals, for example

Hymnals and such

Sonobuoy

Sugar substitutes

Sugar substitutes shown chemically as C6H8(OH)6

Actress taking lighter roles

A pert little part for a girl

Coquettish female comedy role

Capable of being sounded.

Sweets for a grouch (wordplay)

They're hard and tart

Lemonheads and Cry Babies

Sowbread

""(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) Printing a device on a linecaster for evening up the spaces between words""

SPALLE the shoulder

Sparable

Like surplus resources

Bowler's favorite menu item (wordplay)

Leftovers from a TV roast (wordplay)

Potential harem for Adam (wordplay)

Capable of being spoken; fit to be spoken.

Dangerous cocktail

Launch full of drugs (wordplay)

One making waves

High-speed vessel

Entrance, as through oratory

Having put on tie, shift grip

Fascinate

Like notes ready to be blown (wordplay)

Kind of income

Like money, there for using - hang staying in the black!

In America, plant leaders of Soviet partisans to assassinate president

Black Widow's creation (2 words)

Bed wipers (anagram)

Clue 'ego', perhaps for pastoral poem

SPILL to overflow from a container

Classroom projectiles, perhaps

Wild pitches (wordplay)

Hard-to-hit pitches

Likely to decay.

Charge for a snog with a bird (wordplay)

Large wading bird

One may be roseate

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

South African symbol

A jumper for the South African side

South African animal

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

Squib

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

Type of desk tray

STAGE to produce for public viewing

Like white dresses and unfinished wood

That's right!

Right light on ship (wordplay)

Right (at sea)

That can be asserted Var.

That can be asserted variable

STEALE a handle

The African Queen, for one

The Belle of Louisville, for one

"Fulton's Folly," for one

Steenbok

Can the beast answer the helm (wordplay)

Equipped with a rudder and wheel, say

Capable of turning