9-Letter Words Starting with S

Aged boats (anagram)

Undermined by stealth

Undermined an operation

Defend strongbox with soldier

As a precaution protect chest first

Radar, for instance.

Salinize

Produced mouth moisture

Had what might have been a spat

4A in a pickled spat

Shod like Felix Randal's horses (wordplay)

So shod and everything has Des up around there

The first sign of sun and everyone on England's coasts is wearing summer gear

Made clean

Stains die out, when clinically cleaned

Made clean? Is instead corrupted

Made clinically clean

Like hotel toilet seats

Cleaned up

Disinfected

SAPHEAD a stupid person

Raised its New Order, and made a mockery

Weird rites said to have been ridiculed

Swift activity. Prior approach

Swiftly written (wordplay)

Last letter supports its air strangely mocked

Sent up

Complied with (a condition)

Fie, 'tis sad to find another replete!

Are you done complaining now (wordplay)

Animal fat may be soaked

Soaked through and through

So a king, having been in water

Walked casually into sea, turned rough

Walked casually

Strolled with relative on Sunday - and shot deer!

Cooked au gratin

Like Ritz cracker edges

Decorated with shell-like shapes

Doggedly hurried for a single (wordplay)

Raced, in a way

Played tag, for example

Scandal

Words in huge print

Dies about the car if it's been marked

Unfortunately, Iris faced having skin punctured

Cleared off

Rushed from steep slope before break of day

Second vehicle went over river and got away

Field placings for Flintoff!

The cats got tree'd here and there

*Dispersed, as a crowd

Hunted for scraps

Ragpicked

Invested with royal authority.

Invested with imperial authority

Like Shakespeare.s isle

Planned to occur

On the agenda

Arranged diary for director

Lugged with effort

Carried with great effort

Schlump

Schmeer

Schmoos

Chewed the fat

Worked the room

Talked casually

The discs get round what's sore when cut

Cut through the rugby defence with the old one-two (wordplay)

Cut out

Sclerose

Scollop

Perhaps twenty-one in the pack for tally

Course record (wordplay)

It no doubt records at least 20 runs!

Scorify

Scowder

Clawed, small crustacean showed sign of injury

Scraich

Scraigh

Hurriedly took flight when beaten

Wandered at last to get eggs like this

Eggs whisked and stirred

Scored or was withdrawn (wordplay)

Slightly damaged, so withdrawn

Withdrew, slightly injured

Made like an owl

Cried in a strident voice

Sounded shrill one of the longest one-syllable words (nonverbal)

Wrote, as a signature on a receipt

Written carelessly

Wrote informally

Scrooch

Did some foraging

Monosyllabic word meaning "cadged"

Co-eds rung up and cadged

Made a deep-in-concentration face

Crushed noisily

Compacted

Scunner

When Dec's up about the up part, that has you down

One at the bar higher with the editor and sank the lot

Scutter

A seashore.

Put in the bin!

Roped off, perhaps

Cut up at being forcibly treated

Ten gems Ed sorted and divided

Divided like an orange.

Cut into parts

Selvedge

DOMED dome

Between solid and liquid

""NOMAD a wanderer, also NOMADE""

Stiff, but not inflexible

Somewhat inflexible

A bit firm in consistency

Like jelly or paste

Like grease or yogurt

Given life, perhaps

Judged the merits of.

Making scene, tend to be condemned

How one took a part (wordplay)

Isolated copies retrospectively valued

How Kipling saw East and West.

Septuple

In all the right places

In order

Like some inaugural ball dresses

Sung to (from below window)

Did a number on (wordplay)

Went a-courting, perhaps

Repeated a certain number of times.

Like septuplets

Disposed of round flat note like sisters of chalk cliffs

Sextuple

Shallow

Did a hair salon job

Made a point of (wordplay)

End with phrase specially honed

Brushed up

Smashed the record (wordplay)

Got a big break (wordplay)

Broken - exhausted (informal)

Hope's fled for the pound

Pen for lambs, ewes, etc

Pound worth every penny to Bo Peep (wordplay)

Her eldest becomes withdrawn

Protected from the weather

Covered loan with warden

See Showbread. Showbread.

Shikar

Made a flash

Shone fitfully

Gleamed faintly.

Shinney

Shivaree

Stilt, for example

Stilt, e.g

Dinah and Larry

Heading to land

Toward land

Cut down to size (wordplay)

Tenor performing in hut gets cut

Condensed thus, or the ends may be off

Cleared the driveway, perhaps

Hole in Amundsen's equipment gets dug

How crude shelter carried by sleigh was shifted (wordplay)

""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

Withered

Shivered in fear or revulsion

Trembled violently as with horror

Trembled, shivered

Shunpike

Quiet-spoken, like some windows

(Of windows) shut up

Like some windows

Shylock

Sibilate

Dior beads (anagram)

Dining room sight

Dining room piece.

Left on the bench, perhaps

Out of action, say

Kept from active participation

Gestured behind the stumps (wordplay)

Shown design fault, set about everyone

Flagged down variable

Meant

Polished with wax

Feigned, imitated

Pretended to be excited with temperature dropping

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

Sinicize

What Arnold isn't

Cowardly

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

Skelter

Skiddoo

Led on the bowling green (wordplay)

Led the team on the green

Was the captain of a ship

Ran like an iguana

The kit's got treed, having scuttled off

Skipped, as a fishing lure

Skreegh

Skreigh

Skyjack

Frolicked

Slabber

Let up

Eased

Dragged through the mud, maybe

What Mrs. Slipslop did.

Attacked the good name of

Put on lavishly

Laid on thick

Used wastefully

Made glossy

Smoothed.

Like some fine books

Beaten with indoor shoe

Like Cinderella

Emulated a snake

Moved like a snake

Moved like a snake.

Acted like a baby, in a way

Talked like a toper

Licked, like a dog does

Slubber

Logged Z's

Burdened dragging pole, so rested

Son, given heavy responsibility, slept

Made neater by tradesmen

Wised (up)

Got wise, with "up"

Would this elude a gardener (wordplay)

Would this elude a gardener?

Learned superficially

Dabbled in

Dabbled

Displayed suppressed anger

Didn't flare

Did a slow burn

Drenched in sauce

Her modest fancy will get stifled

Stifled, he stormed out

Long-necked bird allied to cormorant

Plant used as an astringent

Informal name for bistort, also describing its twisted roots

SNEAKER one that {sneaks=v}

Laughed, in a way.

Laughed in undignified fashion.

Queen in Dickens novel laughed

Giggled, British style.

Laughed disrespectfully.

Laughed derisively

Snivel

Blocked at The Crucible (wordplay)

Restricted by O'Sullivan (wordplay)

In a real pickle

Engaged in some ecotourism, maybe

Swam with the fishes, say

Went finswimming, maybe

White expanse

Walked at a ski resort

Soberize

Sodomize

Onerous DJ (anagram)

Visited awhile

Al departed, therefore newspaper editor stayed temporarily

Solarise

Solarize

Idler does need to be beaten (shirked)

Joined keeping unit and served in the army

Malingered.

Solecise

Solecize

Begged for it in legal form, perhaps

Sought by petition

Consequently legal, journalist made advances

Sonicate

Sonnet

SOUFFLE a light baked dish

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

""; adj. Toward, to, or in outer space.""

Spancel

Spotted by a mudslinger (wordplay)

Trap steed (anagram)

Small talk on journalist's spread

Lead (a military attack)

Lead (an attack)

Lead (an attack or movement)

Speciate

Named in detail

Stated in detail

Gave details

Spectate

Entrance, as through oratory

Having put on tie, shift grip

Fascinate

Spelunk

Any of the four haploid cells formed by meiosis in a male organism that develop into spermatozoa without further division.

Plant of the ginseng family

Aromatic East Indian plant.

Aromatic root

Grew, like some churches, welcoming everybody

Spotted, splashed

'Boldly spotted the third allotment': penned by Guardian setter

*Stained

Pillaged

Brought to you (by)

Was an angel

Like Web "articles" that are really ads

Spraddle

Sprattle

Rained a bit

Caused umbrellas to open

Made umbrellas necessary

Hurried around state, spoke excitedly

Spoke incoherently

Bumbled verbally

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

Cleaned a windshield

Wiped clean, in a way

Monosyllabic word meaning "sat on"

Sat on

Suppressed

Squiggle

Squilgee

Squinch

Squinny

Squoosh

He may convey properties

Person moving theatre props

Theater crew member

The buck began to fall over greed

Hit with a haymaker

The buck nearly fell for greed

Got stuck in a rut

Was in a rut

Hit the doldrums

Wasn't confident, say

Emulated Mel Tillis

Spoke like Bob Newhart

Ran wildly, as a buffalo herd

Ran wild, as cattle

Made off frightfully fast

Used a telescope

Looked raptly

Daydreamed

For Hawaii and Alaska (wordplay)

Territory's future, perhaps

For Hawaii and Alaska?

Placed where the 28 across are perhaps

Posted there online, perhaps

Posted in a position

How Edward the loyal stopped the flow

Arrested resolute pressman

Traveled in a certain kind of ship

The rainbow trout

Rainbow trout

Trout variety

Three metal feet to scale (wordplay)

Three metal feet with scales (wordplay)

Pittsburgh work area

Increased in price

Made a higher grade

More inclined to be made like this

Like letters on a crate, maybe

Like sign letters, perhaps

Lettered with a form.

Marriage acquisition, maybe

Second mate's kid (wordplay)

Offspring of spouse

To the rear

Supervised, as a kitchen.

Managed

""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

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

Stockade

""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.""

Put up with

Most upset having hurt bore

Stood

Stonish

With a plug

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

Stouten

Was on both sides!

Took an equivocal position Colloq.

Took an equivocal position: Colloq.

Wandered from the direct course

Wandered off.

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