9-Letter Words Starting with S

SABLE to {darken=v}

See note (nonverbal)

Money lost in selling if car ices over

Offering to a god

Safari

Defend strongbox with soldier

As a precaution protect chest first

Radar, for instance.

A lamp having one or more color filters allowing moderate darkroom illumination without affecting photosensitive film or paper.

Safety

Football A safety.

""SAFETY to protect against failure, breakage or accident""

Less rapid rapids? (letters 4-7)

Thistle-like plant cultivated in India

Red fabric dye.

Safranin

Sainfoin

Salify

Salsify

Beach pests

Composure if dragon's in a whirl

Composure in trying circumstances

Coolness under pressure.

Sanserif

Tree of the laurel family.

Root-bark flavoring

Its roots may be steeped or brewed

Complied with (a condition)

Fie, 'tis sad to find another replete!

Are you done complaining now (wordplay)

Discharges, as an obligation.

To beging with, Saturday is enough

Sawfish

Strawberry geranium, for one

Rosette-shaped flower

Plant such as London pride

Building repair platforms

Window washers' needs

One has them for building in execution

Stockholders raising a bargain, not a fracas

See Epidermis. Epidermis.

Dies about the car if it's been marked

Unfortunately, Iris faced having skin punctured

One who criticises what lawn specialist uses

Earth's destroyer more alarming, if accepted

It's more frightening if taken for a gardening tool

Lacerates, as the feelings.

Criticizes severely

Sclaffer

Sclaff

Jaywalkers, e.g

Jaywalkers, for example

Ticket dodgers

Baskin-Robbins servings

Scoopful

Scorify

Scorify

Scrofula

Tailor cries over Trump becoming more untidy

SCRUFF the back of the neck

Dust-up participants

Support for injury having got hit in fighting (wordplay)

Scurfy

Seacraft

The Vikings, for example

Jack-tars, old salts

Vikings, for example

Travelling by ship

Marine's a force in extreme environment

Travelling the ocean

Seafloor

Parts of coastal towns

Plants thought to have medicinal qualities.

Selfhood

With concern just for one's own gain

How misers act

In an unfeeling manner.

DEIFY to make a god of

DWARF extremely small

Culmination of a truck race (wordplay)

Not a fully detached game!

A red and blue one approaches!

Between solid and liquid

Previous conditions of servitude

Repeated a certain number of times.

Like septuplets

Disposed of round flat note like sisters of chalk cliffs

Farewell to sadness from Paul Eluard

Forced, with sudden emphasis (music)

How to make zoo so emphatically loud

Emphatically, in music

Sforzato

Decorative works made by scratching off surface layers

""Scratched; said of decorative painting of a certain style, in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through, so as to form the design from a dark ground underneath.""

Shadfly

Shafting

Modest; shamefaced.

Variant of sherif .

Adjective meaning resembling

Hope's fled for the pound

Pen for lambs, ewes, etc

Pound worth every penny to Bo Peep (wordplay)

Informal store-inventory units

Adjective meaning resembling

Egotishtical seafood (wordplay)

Lobsters, cockles, mussels etc

Clams and oysters

Admitting of being shifted.

Shifty

... like a factory worker (wordplay)

Lazy, and lacking a work pattern

Still a layabout and still not dressed

Shinleaf

Shoofly

Gets a five-finger discount

Pockets at the mall

Helps oneself, in a way.

Want a little snow (wordplay)

What's missing from shower (wordplay)

Deficiency in whisky, perhaps a drop

One scoop of snow

Spade's capacity

Shroff

Shuffler

Card game task

Evasively preparing to offer new deal

Siffleur

Plural noun or verb form

Meant

One that signifies.

Signify

What Arnold isn't

Cowardly

Non-slip surface of skateboard's child-resistant

Skiffle

Cheeseparer to remove outside of stone

Means one's mean and stony

Mean man to hide stone

Slipform

Hard-hitting contests

Knock-down-drag-out fights

Knock-down drag-outs

Taking supporters back with cast

Sniffy

Sniffler

Sniffle

Winter storm consequence

Bunch of flakes

Road blocker after a winter storm

Snowfall

White expanse

Canadian crystal (wordplay)

It can't be cloned

Hexagonal sign of winter

Snuffy

Snuffler

Snuffly

Snuffle

Softback

As used in a form of rounders

Easy-to-answer questions

Like later printings, often

Like some books

Paperback book

Washday aids

Water additives

Chemical agents more frequently carried by ship

Toning down

Not getting hard to sing about this frequently

Getting not so hard to sing about this frequently

Softhead

Crab-house specification

Sort of a crab

Kind of crab

Software

Pine and cedar

SOLEMN {serious=adj}

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

Your music teacher (wordplay)

Singer's exercise

Exercise on a small scale

Songfest

SONGFUL melodious

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

Poor sci-fi rerun sending one to sleep

Inducing drowsiness or sleep

That's enough to make one drop off

Sad when surf low or choppy

Grief-stricken

Causing grief

SOUFFLE a light baked dish

With deep feeling

""An American market fish (Ch\'91todipterus faber) common on the southern coasts; called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy. Ch\'91todipterus faber) common on the southern coasts; called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy.""

Spadeful

South Dakota town

Use a harpoon

Do submarine work

Details, not generalities

Details

Named in detail

Stated in detail

Gave details

One setting down requirements

Puts a finger on

Names provided in taxonomic group

One has to be particular if it's in kind

Orate

Harangue.

Harangue

Most polished

Fine snow driven by the wind

Spray blown along surface of sea

Spray blown from the crests of waves

Zippy WWII fighter planes

Battle of Britain fighters

Old fighters, ones with fiery tempers

A physical deformity characterized by abnormally flat and turned-out feet.

A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.

""Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy.""

Spoonful

Spoonful

SQUAW an American Indian woman

Squiffy

Stageful

Ties, in ball games.

Juicy treat from Southeast Asia

Edible Malaysian export

Sweet treat from Southeast Asia

Tight on dates perhaps, but unwavering

Firm dates fixed before Lent, perhaps

Firm date's changed going on diet

STENCH to cause to stink

Measures of set type

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

What the fishmonger must do to have them cured

It resembles a rock in the water

Spiny swimmer

Full of tension

Causing mental tension

Taxing is frustrating

Stuffy

Stuffing

STUFF to fill or pack tightly

Stunned with astonishment

Dulled the wits or senses

Rendered speechless

See if wandering past backward places makes confused

""Having the form of, or resembling, a style, pin, or pen; styloid.""

Subchief

""One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.""

Subfield

Subfloor

FOSSIL the preserved remains of a plant or animal

Subframe

Subshaft

Singular bubble with incomplete opening will make one sweat

Sufferer

Enduring endless bother over iron girdle

Allowing real distress

Permitting the existence of pain

Sufficer

Meeting needs

Being good enough, sung around Dev's party here in Paris

Adding at the end

Attaching at the end

Sufflate

Sufflate

Cut off sea and cut off air

Kill rowing team from Ipswich, say (wordplay)

Kill by blocking the air passages

""Assisting; assistant; as, a suffragan bishop. as, a suffragan bishop.""

Suffrage

Suffuse

""The act or process of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading.""

SUFFUSE to spread throughout

Mountain of Rio de Janeiro.

Conical sweetener of old

Rio's mountain

Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of sulfate esters and are found in animal tissues and bacteria.

Sulfate

Sulfinyl

""SULFONE a sulfur compound, also SULPHONE""

""A positive ion or univalent radical containing trivalent sulfur, such as H 3 S.""

Sulfonyl

Any of various organic compounds that contain a sulfinyl group.

Sulfuret

Sulfur

SULFUR a non metallic element

Like some pollutants

Sulfuryl

Sunfish

Star bloomer (wordplay)

Symbol of Kansas

Symbol of Kansas.

Superfan

English word

English word

Exceptionally good.

Adjective for sandpaper with very high grit numbers

Overnice

English word