9-Letter Words Starting with S

1989's word: Plunderer

Spooling

Charge for a snog with a bird (wordplay)

Large wading bird

One may be roseate

Spoonful

Spoonful

Lotus and pear used to produce seeds

It brightens up a performance

Stage actor may be in it

Flimsy blouse held up in public eye

""Made, paid, or delivered immediately: a spot sale.""

Spraddle

Spraddle

Sprattle

Sprattle

Bobbysoxers in usual array

Sprawly

Lying with limbs flung out

Spreading out in an ungainly fashion

Lying untidily

What one ply's about? That's right

Full of life

Lively odds justly followed

English word

Springal

With elasticity

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

Extended canvas shows one escaping soul's distress

Spurgall

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

Bickering pigeon (wordplay)

One having spats

Bickering pigeon?

Quarrels about petty points

Arguments

Squalene

Squalid

In a squalid manner.

Squaller

Squally

Squall

""Scalelike; squamous; as, the squamosal bone as, the squamosal bone""

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

Informers Slang.

Informers: Slang.

Canaries.

Squeal

Monosyllabic word meaning "sat on"

Sat on

Suppressed

Certain retort

Anti-grape stain product (wordplay)

Walks through the mud

Sits on.

Squiggle

Curly and looped lines

Curlicues

Squilgee

Squilgee

Without question, sir lures wild animals

Flickertails, for example

Nut-eating mammals

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

Groom, for example

Ostler, groom etc

'Blast, mane needs grooming!' is what he often thinks

Chaps looking after beasts in detestable menagerie

Country workers in firm facing threat, not half

Country workers seen as steady and reliable chaps (wordplay)

Horse houses

Type of desk tray

STAGE to produce for public viewing

Stageful

Adjective meaning resembling

Like white dresses and unfinished wood

Lest a sin's done without it (wordplay)

This steel contains chromium

Kind of steel

Flight case (wordplay)

Shaft peer report by Spring

Space flight takes one into sun source

Reason for marital breakup (wordplay)

Old fellow's tie (wordplay)

Reason for marital breakup?

Lack of originality.

Quality of old bread

Lack of being fresh

Stalky

Having no stalk.

Megan's namesakes (wordplay)

The last equine felines at last

Horses named for their enclosures

Brave sturdy persons

Strong and faithful supporters

Dogged souls

Brave; bold; strong; redoubted; daring; vehement; violent.

Like "no postage necessary" letters

Of or pertaining to stapes.

Stapelia

STARCH to stiffen a fabric

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

They make sudden appearances

They may make you jump

They surprise

What a surprise to begin with the fish!

Begin with fish? Amazing!

Cast drinking bitter, and staggering!

That can be asserted Var.

That can be asserted variable

Like the man without a country

Like Edward Snowden

Without a country.

More pompous part of 7's workshop

More statuesque

More magnificent

Of or pertaining to a station.

Is that lot differential calculus (wordplay)

Staumrel

In a loyal way

Without ambivalence

Canvas items. I say, with salts at sea

STEALE a handle

Stealage

Stealing

Crush, as an opponent

Brook no opposition

Suppress ruthlessly

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

Can the beast answer the helm (wordplay)

Equipped with a rudder and wheel, say

Capable of turning

STENCH to cause to stink

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

Marriage acquisition, maybe

Second mate's kid (wordplay)

Offspring of spouse

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

Such as many hormones

Ideal sort for exercising, enhancing performance

Game played on city streets

Vacant lot game

Street competition

Measures of set type

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

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."

Pasting without Pa would leave one without defence like this

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

Reserve supply (of weapons)

Hoard standard carpeting material

Government reserve supply

By way of resignation

With a poker face

With fortitude

""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.""

Terribly stilted, so most uninspiring

Doctor so stilted and most unemotional

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

Stolport

STOMODEA stomodeum

Gritty defence (wordplay)

Oliver's divider (wordplay)

Use delay-ing tactics

Urban kids' game

Street game

Don't go there!

Part of the street scene.

Device on rear of motor vehicle.

Unlike a juggernaut

Stopple

Storable

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

Play golf the Curtis way (wordplay)

In an odd manner

In a weird way...

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

Small banker getting bad service on jet

Burn letter Sam redirected

Burn a number left in the roadway

Streel

Full of tension

Causing mental tension

Taxing is frustrating

Streusel

Strickle

Strickle

Hitting close to home (wordplay)

Young enough to skin the fish (wordplay)

Shy hosts outing young man

Strobila

Strobile

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

Walker's Rest (rolls over)

What babies are pushed around in

Baby transports

Walking leisurely with no apparent aim

Activity on a boardwalk

Go round in pain, walking slowly

Parasitic threadworm

Strongyl

Had difficulty (with)

Found the going tough

Made violent efforts.

One who struggles.

Tugs of war

Uphill battles

Tries hard

Stubbly

In deliberate and premeditated manner

In deliberate or contrived manner

Duly edits in intentionally contrived manner

Studly

STUFF to fill or pack tightly

The unsteady begin seeing with glasses

They fall down bringing glass aboard ship

Kind of block

Walking with two left feet

Evidence of klutziness

They give a ship increased speed

Printer's guide.

It sets the tone

Summary of typefaces, etc., of a newspaper.

Unfashionable

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

Styliser

Still shy about start of year with class

How models dress

A la mode

Stylise

Artistic city's redesigned around tip

Pertaining to literary design or appearance

Rhetorical

Stylizer

Stylize

""The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Subbase. Subbase.""

Liability to be sued; the state of being subjected by law to civil process.

SUASIVE persuasive

ACIDLY {sourly=adv}

Subadult

AERIAL an {antenna=n}

Beyond the foothills

Just below the treeline

Below the treeline

Officer ordering vessel to change course

Army officer below captain

Officer below captain

Being under the apex; of or pertaining to the part just below the apex.

Subblock

Underground room.

Subclerk

CLIMAX to reach a high point

COLONY a settlement of emigrants in a new land

Subcool

DERMAL relating to the derm

SUBDUED subdue

""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

Sublate

The act of taking or carrying away; removal.

Let by a letter

Some rental agreements

Rents from a renter