9-Letter Words Starting with S

Adjective meaning resembling

Sheikdom

Arab chief's territory

Reportedly, disturb stupid Arab leader's territory

Husband in rebuilt home with kids, in part of Arabia

Bird that female navigator found on lake

Duck captured by dissolute rakes

Diving duck with serrated bill

Shelduck

Informal store-inventory units

Adjective meaning resembling

Defeats decisively

The Ancient Mariner

The woman will sponsor old sailor

Egotishtical seafood (wordplay)

Lobsters, cockles, mussels etc

Clams and oysters

Shelly

""Work composed of shells, or adorned with them.""

Her eldest becomes withdrawn

Protected from the weather

Covered loan with warden

SHELTER to provide cover or protection

Shelvy

Shelving

Mince pie men (wordplay)

A part of every Xmas pageant.

& 28 Weed in countryman's bag

Sherbert

Sherlock

Sherris

Island group NE of the Orkneys.

Some ponies or sheepdogs

Small, stocky ponies

See Showbread. Showbread.

Shielder

Protecting

Shieling

Admitting of being shifted.

Shifty

... like a factory worker (wordplay)

Lazy, and lacking a work pattern

Still a layabout and still not dressed

Shigella

Shigella

Shiitake

Shikaree

Shikar

Made a flash

Shone fitfully

Gleamed faintly.

Soccer players often guard them

Tibias

Shingler

Brilliance

Luster

Shinleaf

Shinney

Transported by ship.

Set with mishap at sea? They hope not!

Ishmael and Starbuck, for two

Crew rescued from damaged steamship

Seat under E. C. A

Things in transit

Hemp isn't assembled on small payloads

Onassis, perhaps, captive in the sun (wordplay)

Transport magnate's shown ripe bananas

At sea, person with less time to find big fish in the main (wordplay)

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

Shipside

Rowed-to ruin (wordplay)

It may mean junk ends up as junk!

Event in "The Tempest."

Shirty

Not having or wearing a shirt.

Shivaree

Comic serenades for newlyweds.

Noisy mock serenades to newlyweds

Shiverer

Shaking (with the cold)

Shaking (with cold)

Not still feeling cold

English word

Shlemiel

Shlepp

Shmaltz

Shoaly

Capable of being upset by sudden occurrences

Stuffed by white, black can suffer trauma

Most likely to collapse

Most carelessly done

Least workmanlike

Wading birds.

Nile birds

Boot shiner (wordplay)

One who gives you a shine

Person whose work shines

Squeezes (into)

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

Shape-saving inserts

Shape-saving footwear inserts

Closet accessories

Former Japanese government

Shoofly

Stilt, for example

Stilt, e.g

Dinah and Larry

Water's edge.

Where the sea meets land

Area subject to erosion

The area near the shore

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)

Cut down to size (wordplay)

Tenor performing in hut gets cut

Condensed thus, or the ends may be off

In gambling one who causes the odds to become less

Abridger

Occasional quality of breath or stature

Characteristic of LaGuardia, Napoleon, etc.

Brevity

Cropped hairdo for radio band (wordplay)

Miniature white horse is on the air

Not a long farewell on the air

They ought to start to be armed, perhaps

They ought to begin to be armed

End of sobriquet

Shall

Winter emergency brigade.

Earth movers

Winter workers

One scoop of snow

Spade's capacity

Activity after a snowstorm

Winter-time chore

Digging out after a snowstorm

Cleared the driveway, perhaps

Hole in Amundsen's equipment gets dug

How crude shelter carried by sleigh was shifted (wordplay)

Duck person doing spadework

Duck swimming over shell

He clears the way while getting over shell shock

""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

Some bathers

Criminal whose gang is getting clean

Post-game activity

Washing elephant's head in circus arena (wordplay)

Whose sins could produce extravagance (wordplay)

Exhibitionism

Flamboyance

Prove knight maybe is a fine specimen

Exhibit western epic shot in Oxford, say

Example of excellence

Hearst Castle, for one

Beautifully furnished home

Lavishly furnished home

CIA document destroyers

Document destruction devices

They end paper trails

Completely destroying (secret papers)

Tearing into thin strips

Cutting into strips.

Most crafty and calculating

Most astute or calculating

Most astute

Shrewdie

Adjective meaning resembling

Vocal feminine fans.

Shrieky

Ubiquitous Halloween sounds

Screeching.

Screeching

Shrieve

Often sexist superlative

Some Gulf trawling vessels

Shrimpy

Process of becoming less

A gherkin's pickled, getting smaller

Asking her out is withering experience

They make things get smaller

Withered

Area of small bushes

Bushy part of garden

Games pitch out in the garden

Shrubby

Shtetl

Shivered in fear or revulsion

Trembled violently as with horror

Trembled, shivered

Shuffler

Shunpike

SHUNPIKE to travel on sideroads to avoid expressways

Shunpike

Quiet-spoken, like some windows

(Of windows) shut up

Like some windows

Shylock

Shyness

Hissing bird upset pike

Hissing quality

Sibilate

Sibilate

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

Sickener

A blow to the stomach (wordplay)

Very irritating; becoming ill

Selection starts with freezing out of Livingstone, making you want to throw up

Sickle cell anemia or sickle cell trait.

Sickly

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)

SIDED side

Apply fertilizer around the plants

Place fertiliser near the roots of a crop

Place plant nutrients near the roots of a growing crop

Sidehill

Striking team-mates!

Possible theme for this puzzle

Robin and others

Small illumination (on car)

Not light in the head in the car

Incidental information in window by door

Left on the bench, perhaps

Out of action, say

Kept from active participation

Footballer out of the game: Colloq.

Footballer out of the game Colloq.

Nonparticipant vessel

Card's edges (wordplay)

Touch out of them

Is in Leeds in order to get further work

Mistress, in slang

Disrespected mistress, in slang

The other woman, in somewhat objectifying slang

Siderite

Carnival attractions

Circus additions

Circus attractions

Skids laterally

Rotary motions

Ducks, out of the water (wordplay)

What the jinking wing does

Avoids backing favourites in teams

Dating app for adulterers (wordplay)

Facelift after cut and blow (wordplay)

Passing critical remark

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

Sierozem

Siffleur

Not C like this, by the sound of it

Like baby rabbits

Like Milton after age 43

More comely.

More attractive

Sightsee

He visits places, say, always ancient

Tourist spot fortune teller

Visitor to famous locations

Acts the tourist

Plays the tourist, and a hint to the puzzle's theme

Signaler

Mark, notably a single, is desperate

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

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

Communicators are remarkable people

Railroad employees

Semaphore pros

Is over Midge Ure's autograph!

Button Gwinnett's claim to fame.

Is over Midge Ure's autograph

Signet

Meant

One that signifies.

Signify

Signory

""Pl. signorine (-n , -n ) or signorinas Used as a courtesy title for an unmarried woman in an Italian-speaking area, equivalent to Miss.""

They could make the colts 10 across

They'll lower the boom

'They make little of it, by the sound of it (9)'

Silence

Silent

Silicate

""Of or pertaining to silica; containing silica, or partaking of its nature.""

Silicide

Rubbery polymers

Caulk compounds

Organic compounds that could make soils nice

Plural or third person singular

Silicula

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

Smooth, lustrous quality

Hair quality promised by some shampoos

English word

Silkweed

Abundance of window bases (wordplay)

Endearing quality of puns

Typical Three Stooges comedy

Siloxane

Certain sedimentary rock

Type of sedimentary rock

Silverer

Silver

Simazine

Seething

Dollars, in old slang

Dollars, informally

Dollars Slang.

Polished with wax

Simonize

They wear fatuous smiles

Smiling in an affected and silly way

Smugly smiling

I am through in song with such a silly smile

Idiot! It's easy to point!

Incorrectly spelt? I'm no dope!

Effortless weight (wordplay)

Simplex

Simplex

Archaic A simulacrum.

Feigned, imitated

Pretended to be excited with temperature dropping

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