9-Letter Words Starting with S

Stannite

Of or pertaining to stapes.

Stapelia

More rigid

More stiff and formal - like collar (wordplay)

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

Starnose

Most brilliant small time lags inside

Like the clearest nights

Describing Old Glory.

They make sudden appearances

They may make you jump

They surprise

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

Private cabin, say, with berth put up

Passengers's private compartment on ship

Cruise ship accommodation

Team, say, leading in America

Hawaiian's destination, perhaps

Desist, Tea Party, in America!

Top politico? Says he!

Politician says piece

Lincoln, for one

'They're from the USA, says they (9)'

Famous politicians of the USA (wordplay)

Abraham Lincoln, for one of them

Like many lotteries

Throughout one of the Forty-eight.

Across all counties

Placed where the 28 across are perhaps

Posted there online, perhaps

Posted in a position

Radio DJ's other job (wordplay)

Paper pusher (wordplay)

Pencil pusher (wordplay)

Oscar, for one.

Oscar, for one

Model by the minute (wordplay)

Staumrel

How Edward the loyal stopped the flow

Arrested resolute pressman

Firmer cane hurts badly

Firmer.

Stops the flow of

Tight on dates perhaps, but unwavering

Firm dates fixed before Lent, perhaps

Firm date's changed going on diet

Steadier

Still the most (wordplay)

Best-balanced - it's sedate (anagram)

Best on the balance beam, maybe

Steading

Stopping from pitching

Controlling, in a way

Small drink failing to be calming

STEALE a handle

Stealage

Stealing

The African Queen, for one

The Belle of Louisville, for one

"Fulton's Folly," for one

Traveled in a certain kind of ship

Most like a sauna

Setting me a test is very sexy

Most vaporous

Crush, as an opponent

Brook no opposition

Suppress ruthlessly

The Titanic, for one

Lusitania, for one

The Andrea Doria, for one

Steapsin

Esters of fatty acids

Stearic acid salts.

Cosmetic ingredients

Solid fats

Soapstones

""Pertaining to, or of the nature of, steatite; containing or resembling steatite.""

The rainbow trout

Rainbow trout

Trout variety

With the most nerve

Most like Superman

Most hard and cold

Something made of steel.

Three metal feet to scale (wordplay)

Three metal feet with scales (wordplay)

Pittsburgh work area

Steenbok

Increased in price

Made a higher grade

More inclined to be made like this

Quality of steps seen to develop

What gradeability is a measure of

Mountaineer's concern

Can the beast answer the helm (wordplay)

Equipped with a rudder and wheel, say

Capable of turning

Cheapest crossing options, say

Cheap accommodations on passenger ships

Passenger ships' sections

Cowboy on board (wordplay)

Is the cowboy at the helm (wordplay)

One at ship's helm

Cowboys at the wheel (wordplay)

How cowboys work with tillers (wordplay)

Cowboys on board (wordplay)

Steeving

Stegodon

Jurassic Park resident (wordplay)

Ex-herbivore with bony plates

Large, extinct herbivore

Animals' skins to be treated

STEMMA a family tree

Stemmy

Stemware

STENCH to cause to stink

Stenchy

Like letters on a crate, maybe

Like sign letters, perhaps

Lettered with a form.

Sign maker, perhaps

Person of letters (wordplay)

Many a street artist

Stenoky

Court reporter's machine

Instrument used in taking shorthand.

Court reporter's device

STENO a stenographer

Marriage acquisition, maybe

Second mate's kid (wordplay)

Offspring of spouse

Stepdame

Stereo

Sterigma

A sterilizing agent.

How one with writer's block works

Inability to breed

Inability to reproduce

State of being unproductive or barren

Pass through fire, perhaps

Make safe for use, in a way

Boil, perhaps

Old English pennies

Sternite

Furthest back on a ship

Craft storm sent farthest back

Farthest aft

Rear admiral's trait (wordplay)

Back head of uncompromising nature

Severity not in the bows to start with

Rudder support, harsh job

Holding up rudder is a hard position

Ship's timber aft from keel to deck.

Sternson

To the rear

Sternway

Such as many hormones

Ideal sort for exercising, enhancing performance

Allen's scale notes (wordplay)

He likes to put on a performance

Dock-worker loads and unloads ships

Supervised, as a kitchen.

Managed

Stibnite

Most awkwardly difficult

Most viscous

Petty perfectionists

Perfectionists, martinets

Disciplinarians, essentially

""A long slender piece of wood, especially: a. A branch or stem cut from a tree or shrub.""

""A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets. Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets.""

STICK to support with slender pieces of wood

Finds feet somehow, given support

Added starch to

Got more formal

Strong drink - starch (wordplay)

Fortifying alcoholic drink (slang)

Starch, as a laundry agent

Stretching may relieve it

Taut feeling

That could save you from going round the bend

Stilbene

Stilbite

Sharp-looking footwear (wordplay)

Sharp-looking heels (wordplay)

Assassins' sharp daggers

Stilly

Rest with case of scarlet fever, perhaps

Tranquil silence, calmness

Tells sins in motionless silence

How the actor playing the giant spoke (wordplay)

Fan fire (wordplay)

Stir up trouble? I must after hours!

Opposite of "bore."

Ray having a whiplike tail.

Whip-tailed ray.

Fish with whiplike tail.

Most tight

Most closefisted

Most Scroogelike

Pasting without Pa would leave one without defence like this

Maximally malodorous

Most mephitic

Most foul

""Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura. Jamestown weed, and Datura.""

They leave spots for southern boozers

Certain painters.

Certain painters

Specify as a condition or requirement

Specify, as in a contract

Specify as an essential part

Sewing circle members

Sewers

Embroidered samplers and the like

Ornamental needlework

Stockade

Barriers of stakes

Enclosures of wooden posts

Prisons of a sort

Stocky

Elastic knitted fabric

Store at home with film material

Material traditional in film

Reserve supply (of weapons)

Hoard standard carpeting material

Government reserve supply

Stodgy

""The space, or any of the spaces, in front of the boilers of a ship, from which the furnaces are fed; the stokehole of a ship; also, a room containing a ship's boilers; as, forced draft with closed stokehold; -- called also, in American ships, fireroom.as, forced draft with closed stokehold; -- called also, in American ships, fireroom.""

Stokesia

Terribly stilted, so most uninspiring

Doctor so stilted and most unemotional

Put up with

Most upset having hurt bore

Stood

Former article of dress

Decoration worn to marches

Decorative panel on front of gown or bodice

Pl. stomodea also stomodaea (-d ) The anterior or oral portion of the alimentary canal of an embryo.

STOMODEA stomodeum

An embryonic oral cavity

""(Engineering / Automotive Engineering) US and Canadian a type of sleigh used for moving rocks from fields, for hauling milk cans, etc.""

Little bird worried cat. Honest!

Rabbit's pelt on bird

Small heathland bird

Wall-growing plant; soon crept (anagram)

Plant of rocks and walls

Mosslike wall-growing plant

It resembles a rock in the water

Spiny swimmer

Gritty defence (wordplay)

Oliver's divider (wordplay)

Use delay-ing tactics

Caveman's cooking tools (wordplay)

Pottery has novel article in stock

Heavy, nonporous pottery

'Lust for Life' (wordplay)

Lust for Life (wordplay)

Mason's task

Seaweed-type plant.

Being a bit rocky (wordplay)

Lack of pity

Lack of compassion

Stonish

Stonish

Traveler's concern.

Breaks on the road

Places visited briefly

Unlike a juggernaut

Closures, say, shut down the presses

Red light over the leaves

Halts and interruptions.

With a plug

One of today's leading playwrights reportedly blocked at the opening

Storable

Rising sculptor decays in cellar perhaps

Holder of many records

English jumper in charge for vault

Naval vessel for carrying supplies

Supply vessel.

Like some sales

Word for some sales.

Kind of sale

Tries most (anagram)

Sort items out, most foul

Sort items out, as most rough

Stouten

Guiness quality (wordplay)

Beer with head providing strength

Beer with a head on shows strength

Broke some wind in this hat (wordplay)

Lid over the cooker (wordplay)

Smoker's old head wear (wordplay)

Was on both sides!

Took an equivocal position Colloq.

Took an equivocal position: Colloq.

Man on the fence.

Person on both sides of an issue

One on the fence

Plays both sides

Sits on the fence

Takes an attitude over something that's beneath you

Wandered from the direct course

Wandered off.

Leader of tour intercepting hapless laggers who'd ultimately wandered from group

Someone falling behind

Sailor absent for 73 hours

Sheep separated from the flock.

Trails

Lags

They'll never hold water

Spaghetti makers' implements

Food filters

Puts into difficulty

Restricts; hampers

Pinches

Strait

Cable-making machines.

Play golf the Curtis way (wordplay)

In an odd manner

In a weird way...

Whom kids are taught to avoid

Sometimes they're perfect

Those one doesn't know

Most foreign streets are out of line

Most unusual oven, in two ways

In two ways, compass is most unorthodox

Choked to death

What Othello did to Desdemona

Choked and killed

Tree or fig

Nickname of wrestler Lewis.

1960s Boston killer

Does in with a rope

Throttles to death

So many corners half-way along the street, it leaves one quite breathless

Type of dress.

Like clutch bags and bustiers

Like some dresses

Robust persons Colloq.

Robust persons: Colloq.

Powerfully built athletes

Manoeuvre - Ma's target (anagram)

Plan to make up huge pastries (wordplay)

Scheme to bring rock to Beds (wordplay)

The "S" in SALT

Forming part of a long-term plan

Of military importance.

Stravage

Stravage

Strawy

People who barely move (wordplay)

Ones who take off running (wordplay)

Buff runners (wordplay)

Not as clean

More variable.

Less consistent

Running with indecent haste (wordplay)

On the run with problem skin - great!

Shifting out of investments

It holds water

It holds running water

Rock locale

Colorful party decorations

13 across with heavy colds

Strips at a party

Streamy

On the run because it's cold

Like some Web videos

In a steady onrush

Small banker getting bad service on jet

Burn letter Sam redirected

Burn a number left in the roadway

Streeker

Streek

Streel

Desire transport (wordplay)

Desire, for one

Vehicle for Mason's gal (wordplay)

Longest English word with just one vowel

Degrees of intensity.

What interviewees try to convey

Needing much effort

Small and weak admitting run's gruelling

Requiring great exertion

Full of tension

Causing mental tension

Taxing is frustrating

Feeling pressure (about)

Laying emphasis on, say a syllable

Hair in the inside leads to a strain

They can turn your hair gray

Sources of anxiety

Therapy topics

Extended, one's limbs perhaps

Like some truths

Extended in time or space

Support for the NHS (wordplay)

Lie here if injured by brick (wordplay)

It carries the wounded

Pre-workout activity

Warms up for periods in jail

Prison terms

Streusel

""Anything scattered, as flowers for decoration.""

Strickle

Strickle

Schoolmarmish to the extreme

Most unwavering

Maximally inflexible