9-Letter Words Starting with S

Anti-capitalist movement thus is ousting North America from Asian country

Very old soldier is crossing Italy crushing mass communist principles

Put under the hammer and sickle

Convert to Stalinism

Render communistic.

Enterprise, for one

Locale of much modern fiction

Step on board trendy futuristic craft

Tiler's job

Job for some wall fixers

""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.""

Spadille

Would one wind up eating this (wordplay)

Consumers may well be twisters!

Food that might get at hips, perhaps

Spagyric

Spandril

Spangly

Spangle

Spanking

Bowler's favorite menu item (wordplay)

Leftovers from a TV roast (wordplay)

Potential harem for Adam (wordplay)

Very little cutting, calculating nicks

Mean to be doing it this way

In a frugal manner.

Sparky

Sparkly

Shining with brilliant points of light

Pitch outside rec is not flat

Not still - like diamonds

Sparling

Sparry

""A narcotic alkaloid extracted from the tops of the common broom (Cytisus scoparius, formerly Spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of anilinelike odor and very bitter taste. Cytisus scoparius, formerly Spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of anilinelike odor and very bitter taste.""

Done in short bursts

Done in brief irregular bursts

Faulty compass I'd disconnected

How orbits are arranged

Speaking

South Dakota town

Use a harpoon

Do submarine work

Arms factory (wordplay)

Chewing-gum flavor

Man with priest relaxed chewing gum

Special

For a particular purpose

In particular

Particularly small diamonds quietly picked up by friend

Special subject of study

Pediatrics, for example

Strong suit

Speciate

Speciate

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

Samples of Pisces men

Typical examples of Pisces men

Pisces men make prime examples

Marking with bits of color

Orate

Harangue.

Harangue

Least time-wasting.

'Oh yeah ... uh-huh'

Exceeding all in expedition

Speeding

Speering

Entrance, as through oratory

Having put on tie, shift grip

Fascinate

Bee activities (wordplay)

Qaddafi has a slew of them

Literate witches might be good at them

Non-motile male gametes in red seaweeds

""Of or pertaining to semen; as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc. as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc.""

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

Spermine

Sphenoid

Round all around

It's round there

Shaped like Earth

Sphery

Egg yolks, for example

Some round shapes

Geometric solids

Riddler endlessly chattering, loathing lost muscle

Muscle inclined to pinch with rest - stopped up

Body part in a "Wayne's World" joke used to get the other guy to say "What?"

Sphingid

Spiccato

In America, plant leaders of Soviet partisans to assassinate president

SPICE to season with an aromatic vegetable substance

Spicery

Characteristic of hot food

Feature of Thai cuisine

Food critic's concern

Spidery

SPIDER a type of {arachnid=n}

Black Widow's creation (2 words)

Bed wipers (anagram)

Clue 'ego', perhaps for pastoral poem

Most polished

Spikelet

Adjective meaning resembling

Plant of the ginseng family

Aromatic East Indian plant.

Aromatic root

""SPIKE to fasten with a long, thick nail""

Spilikin

SPILL to overflow from a container

Spillage

Another name for the jackstraw in the game of jackstraws

That's Tablet Number One, in a skin. Get it out without disturbance

Jackstraw

Unexpected by-product

Go past the rim

Unexpected consequence

Spillway

Spinach

Spindler

Built more like Ichabod Crane

Longer and thinner

More thin and frail

Lean and lanky.

Lean and lanky

Slender.

Fine snow driven by the wind

Spray blown along surface of sea

Spray blown from the crests of waves

Yellow invertebrate (wordplay)

Chicken partially boned (wordplay)

Invertebrate chicken (wordplay)

Adjective meaning resembling

Spinelle

Quality of being spiny.

Sail suited to Shane Warne (wordplay)

Racing yacht's large triangular sail.

Sail that looks kinda like a parachute

Science fiction novel by Timothy Zahn

Web-making part of a spider

Spider's organ

Metallic trimmings

The quality or state of being spiny or thorny; spininess.

Snip tress (anagram)

Hip publicists (wordplay)

Relatives of bachelor girls.

Having spinules; minutely spiny.

Spiracle

Like prices during inflation

Twisting

Grew, like some churches, welcoming everybody

""A rigid, spiral-shaped bacterium""

Secretly carrying (away)

Making leave (with "away")

Secretly carrying (off)

Occult belief

Seance medium, for example

Lively liquor (old standing order)

In music, to be played in an animated way

Trip I arranged in pretty average surroundings - but in an animated way

Like spirit; refined; defecated; pure.

Go Down Moses, for one

Soul music (wordplay)

Of things of the soul

Having or evidencing a refined mind and wit.

Freshwater algae genus

Freshwater algae

Classroom projectiles, perhaps

Wild pitches (wordplay)

Hard-to-hit pitches

Zippy WWII fighter planes

Battle of Britain fighters

Old fighters, ones with fiery tempers

Receptacles for tobacco chewers

Loogie containers

Napa buckets

More ostentatious

Mountains (spelled backward) + Less bold = (wordplay)

SPLASH to scatter liquid about

Climbing mountains, clamber over group leader displaying ...

Splat

Spleeny

Pencil set (anagram)

Being irritable, select pin differently

There's a splice around the cross net

Sharp frogments of wood

They can get under your skin

Antipodean novel gives us the shivers

""Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral. as, the splintery fracture of a mineral.""

Splint

Cable installer's devices

Stonemasons' chisels

Fastballs that drop sharply near the plate

Divulging secrets, and leaving

Like some headaches

Dividing

Splodge

Splosh

Splurgy

Splurge

Likely to decay.

Spoilage

""One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service.""

SPOILS spoil

Pillaged

Ravages

Plunders

1989's word: Plunderer

Spondaic

Most moist and soft

Sponsion

Most hair-raising

Most eerie

Spooling

Charge for a snog with a bird (wordplay)

Large wading bird

One may be roseate

Spoony

""Pl. sporangia (-j - ) A single-celled or many-celled structure in which spores are produced, as in fungi, algae, mosses, and ferns. Also called spore case .""

A substance used to kill spores.

Most dapper

Superlatively stylish

It brightens up a performance

Stage actor may be in it

Flimsy blouse held up in public eye

Most uneven, as a performance

Most erratic

For giving it a twist, it's wet at last

Tearing ligaments

Sprawly

Lying with limbs flung out

Spreading out in an ungainly fashion

Lying untidily

English city in stretching

Afterthought about county town expanding

Opening out

Sprigger

Spriggy

Sprig

What one ply's about? That's right

Full of life

Lively odds justly followed

English word

Springal

South African symbol

A jumper for the South African side

South African animal

Seasonably named dogs.

They're bound to be dogged

Some spaniels

A spaniel without one is more resilient

More elastic

More likely to bounce back, more like May might you say (wordplay)

With elasticity

Bound to come up after 10 across, perhaps

Summers are bound to follow this with the gin

Rained a bit

Caused umbrellas to open

Made umbrellas necessary

Device for lawn owners.

Device for watering

"Let-us-spray" device

Does lawn work

Candy or cone topping

Barely rains

They are quick

Writer on board for runners

Running types!

At top speed.

Action at a track

Going full tilt

Extended canvas shows one escaping soul's distress

Cocktails lacking hard liquor

Wine-and-soda drinks

Wine cocktails

Spritz

In season, blossoming (wordplay)

Growing rapidly.

Fresh growth.

Sprucy

Most spirited

Makers of cowboys' goods

Squabby

Squad

Squalid

In a squalid manner.

Squally

Squall

Squashy

Wily chap is about to reverse current, so I make my way through marshland

Crushing game in golf

Crushing something so that it becomes flat

Suppressing

Squatty

Sedentary occupation (wordplay)

In a crouch

SQUAW an American Indian woman

Squawk

More in need of oil

Making mouselike noise

Squeal

Easily sickened or disgusted

Fastidious and easily disgusted

Easily sickened or shocked

Avoidable K. P. chore.

Avoidable K.P. chore

Compressing, crushing

Squeg

Squib

Squid

Squiffy

Squiggle

Curly and looped lines

Curlicues

Squilgee

Squilgee

Squinch

Tenses up, as muscles

Squinny

Squinny

Squinny

Eye chart eyers, at times

Squint

Squinty

Looking with partly closed eyes

One way to be looking cross

Involved in fraud, one in five not looking straight (wordplay)

Squireen

Squirmer

Squirmy