9-Letter Words Starting with S

Moving in a twisting or contorted motion

Wriggling uncomfortably

Without question, sir lures wild animals

Flickertails, for example

Nut-eating mammals

Squirter

Squirt

Squishy

Making a walking-in-mud sound

Squush

By a list it gets impaired (wordplay)

What a gyroscope may provide

Monetary policy goal

Get under control

Eliminate fluctuations in

Thwart political unrest abroad, in hegemonic parlance

Horse houses

Adjective meaning resembling

Staggy

The theatrical behaviour of 11 across (wordplay)

One buck in the start of what's theatrical

There's nothing exciting for Des's saint

Tarnish, with bit of dirt, symbol of Superman's composure

Sober quality of Thames-side town restricting daughter and son

Like white dresses and unfinished wood

Lest a sin's done without it (wordplay)

This steel contains chromium

Kind of steel

Steps up (wordplay)

Way down in a well (wordplay)

Connecting flight (wordplay)

Railing sites

Escalators

Tongue-twisting clergyman's to be corseted for flights

Flight case (wordplay)

Shaft peer report by Spring

Space flight takes one into sun source

Stalky

Megan's namesakes (wordplay)

The last equine felines at last

Horses named for their enclosures

Designating pollen-bearing flowers.

Stanch

Upright bar or beam

Vertical support post

Chain's not unhooked from post

Hooperatings, for instance

Sports-page feature

Sports-page listings

Fire hose hookup

Temporary water outlet

Tall water tank

Stannite

Of or pertaining to stapes.

Stapelia

More rigid

More stiff and formal - like collar (wordplay)

STARCH to stiffen a fabric

What's in the tail is about to be overhead to make it stiff

Juicy treat from Southeast Asia

Edible Malaysian export

Sweet treat from Southeast Asia

Planetarium re-creation

Sailor bitten by little rays

Dim night-time illumination

Birds the seaman chucks outside

Sailor hangs around for birds

Al strings the birds along

Most brilliant small time lags inside

Like the clearest nights

Describing Old Glory.

The 'Enterprise' and others

Means of interstellar travel

Enterprise and others

What a surprise to begin with the fish!

Begin with fish? Amazing!

Cast drinking bitter, and staggering!

More pompous part of 7's workshop

More statuesque

More magnificent

Team, say, leading in America

Hawaiian's destination, perhaps

Desist, Tea Party, in America!

Like many lotteries

Throughout one of the Forty-eight.

Across all counties

Of or pertaining to a station.

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)

Slugging percentage, for one

R.B.I., for one

E.g. crime figure

Is that lot differential calculus (wordplay)

Canvas items. I say, with salts at sea

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

Stealing

Most like a sauna

Setting me a test is very sexy

Most vaporous

The Titanic, for one

Lusitania, for one

The Andrea Doria, for one

Steapsin

Solid fats

Soapstones

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

With the most nerve

Most like Superman

Most hard and cold

Steeving

Animals' skins to be treated

STEMMA a family tree

Stemmy

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

Marriage acquisition, maybe

Second mate's kid (wordplay)

Offspring of spouse

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

Such as many hormones

Ideal sort for exercising, enhancing performance

Stibnite

Game played on city streets

Vacant lot game

Street competition

Measures of set type

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.""

Stickle

Stickout

Jewelry items worn with cravats

They might secure ties

""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

English word

Stiction

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

A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment.

Stilbene

Stilbite

Sharp-looking footwear (wordplay)

Sharp-looking heels (wordplay)

Assassins' sharp daggers

Having died in the womb

Stilly

Rest with case of scarlet fever, perhaps

Tranquil silence, calmness

Tells sins in motionless silence

Unfilled vacancy in pantry (wordplay)

Not yet a full house near the kitchen

Pantry's such a quiet place

How the actor playing the giant spoke (wordplay)

Viagra perhaps, man with lust it excited

Pick-me-up

Most likely an illegal influence

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

Some 1960s Corvettes

Bane of shellfish

Swimmers with whiplike tails

Stinkard

Garden pests with a malodorous defense

Insects with an olfactory weapon

Pan's little chum in cropped fungus

Malodorous mushroom

8 gives way to ancient scribe's equipment

Maximally malodorous

Most mephitic

Most foul

Motorboats, to sailing fans

Powerboats

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

""A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the F\'d2tidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata. F\'d2tidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.""

They leave spots for southern boozers

Certain painters.

Certain painters

Marking with small dots

Seurat technique

Specify as a condition or requirement

Specify, as in a contract

Specify as an essential part

""A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.""

Sewing circle members

Sewers

Embroidered samplers and the like

Ornamental needlework

Fasten by sewing

Using needle and thread

Cowboy boot decoration

Stithy

What the fishmonger must do to have them cured

Stocky

Elastic knitted fabric

Store at home with film material

Material traditional in film

Having things on shelves over the legs

They're hung before Christmas

Women's garments

Dealers left out of catalogues

Reserve supply (of weapons)

Hoard standard carpeting material

Government reserve supply

Stodgy

By way of resignation

With a poker face

With fortitude

Stoicism

Stokesia

Terribly stilted, so most uninspiring

Doctor so stilted and most unemotional

The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity.

Digestive medicine for cat in African country is fashionable

It resembles a rock in the water

Spiny swimmer

Being a bit rocky (wordplay)

Lack of pity

Lack of compassion

Stonish

Stonish

Don't go there!

Part of the street scene.

Device on rear of motor vehicle.

Stopple

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

Stound

Broke some wind in this hat (wordplay)

Lid over the cooker (wordplay)

Smoker's old head wear (wordplay)

Some good hands

Good poker hands, often

Of course there are no corners

They'll never hold water

Spaghetti makers' implements

Food filters

Greyhounds on the leash (wordplay)

Trying hard when riddling like this!

Exerting much effort or energy

Puts into difficulty

Restricts; hampers

Pinches

Strait

Being a ground (wordplay)

Leaving helpless redhead in station

Running aground in position across river

Muscular weakness - ultimately catching

Big equipment, small changes to opening

Big and strong.

The "S" in SALT

Forming part of a long-term plan

Of military importance.

Stravaig

Strawy

Not as clean

More variable.

Less consistent

Running with indecent haste (wordplay)

On the run with problem skin - great!

Shifting out of investments

Streamy

On the run because it's cold

Like some Web videos

In a steady onrush

Streek

Streel

Feeling pressure (about)

Laying emphasis on, say a syllable

Hair in the inside leads to a strain

Striate

Marking with streaks

Markedly like a zebra

Arrangement of parallel bands

Strickle

Strickle

Schoolmarmish to the extreme

Most unwavering

Maximally inflexible

Limitation or hostile criticism

Sternly critical remark

Restriction or stern criticism

Quality of being harsh or shrill.

Harsh quality

Shrillness

Harshness of voice.

Loud and harsh quality

Quality of a shrill sound

Delete in the ball park (wordplay)

Erase the baseball batter!

Go down swinging

Severe, rigorous, attention to rules say

Of rule, say strict and precise

As a rule there's cord over the net

Part-time reporters

Horizontal timbers.

Newspaper freelancers

Less voluminous, as hair

String

No more tigerish priests in dispute with it

Striping

Hitting close to home (wordplay)

Young enough to skin the fish (wordplay)

Shy hosts outing young man

Pole stars (wordplay)

They reveal all to tourist on board

Trimmed cards, used by magicians.

Removing paint layers

Edges of signpost tearing and peeling

Strobila

Strobile

""STROBILE the conical, multiple fruit of certain trees, also STROBIL""

Walking leisurely with no apparent aim

Activity on a boardwalk

Go round in pain, walking slowly

Somewhat strong.

Strontia

Soft metallic element

One of 15's cooked mutton, sir

Element number 38

More argumentative

More bad tempered and argumentative (colloq.)

With pressure involved, running Tories' PR gets more difficult to handle

Not going on getting the edge on about R

Maintaining, as a razor

Material for strouds; a kind of coarse cloth used in trade with the North American Indians.

Playing chords, perhaps

Playing chords, say

Playing the guitar

Strunt

Proud as a peacock

That shows that one is proud during March

Are you, a teetotaller, proud to be walking in such a painful way (wordplay)

Stubby

Stubbly

Cuts back the money - Gee, when it's all on the outside

How one carves up the money? Gee, that's the finish of it

Groups of bosses

In deliberate and premeditated manner

In deliberate or contrived manner

Duly edits in intentionally contrived manner