9-Letter Words Starting with S

Sedation

Rebellions

Far from patriotic

Dissident revolutionary is outside

Like a rebel

Charm of the French, in part

Deceptive activity of the French in part

Don Juan activity

Seicento

Seignior

The power or authority of a lord; dominion.

Assortment of players (wordplay)

Choice that was natural for Darwin

Chews this, by the sound of it

TV remotes, for example

DJs, in reggae dancehalls

Knobs on old TVs

Selfhood

Flagged discussion (wordplay)

Army signalling (wordplay)

Flagging conversation (wordplay)

""Relating to signs or symbols, esp. spoken or written signs [adj] : SEMEIOTICALLY""

Perhaps punctually the half of two dots

Mark of a long sentence, perhaps

Wink without batting an eye (wordplay)

Semicoma

DOMED dome

Semidome

Wall finish, sometimes

Wall finish

GROUP to arrange in a group (a collection)

Semihobo

MICRO short for microprocessor

MOIST to wet slightly

""NOMAD a wanderer, also NOMADE""

The study of signs as an element of communication; the analysis of systems of communication; -- also called semiotics.semiotics.

Study of signs and symbols

Field for Kristeva and Barthes

Study of meaning-making

A bit firm in consistency

Like jelly or paste

Like grease or yogurt

TONAL pertaining to tone

Notes that they're half bits of stone

Noted intervals worrying some in set

Small steps in music

'Black Maria, a - herself, rummages through the Zodiac' (Tom Wolfe)

Issue A not quite complete, so is binding B to C (wordplay)

""A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y. w and y.""

WORKS work

Varieties of wheat

Pasta flours

Term of address to a Portuguese girl

Lisbon miss

Factor, at times, in promotions

Privilege due to time served

Status attained by some workers.

Duena's charges

Misses, in Mexico

Mademoiselles, across the border

Sonnet is a wow!

A figurative bombshell.

Feeling a sonnet is terrible

Of the center of feeling.

Solving uses minor part of the brain

Simon sure turns out to be a bit of a brain

Neurosis beaten by miles, which enables one to interpret the world

Opera star (anagram)

What keeps things apart

It divides cream and milk

Meerschaum. See Meerschaum. Meerschaum.

Palatial living quarters

Turkish palace areas

Harems.

Previous conditions of servitude

Of or pertaining to silk; consisting of silk; silky.

Joking apart, your isles are awful!

All joking apart

Extremely sour lies spread by unknown

Perform a clerical task

It's more to the North in size the way you deliver it, in a manner of speaking

Preach

""Pl. serologies The science that deals with the properties and reactions of serums, especially blood serum.""

SEROTINE a European bat

European brown bats

Fight-or-flight neurotransmitter

Ironstone employed as a neurotransmitter

Good mood cause

Serotype

Serpigo

Cutting edge feature (wordplay)

At last an allowance of teeth

One saw with this that's all on edge

Servitor

Sesamoid

A lesson is revised termly

Of a court sitting.

Pertaining to a meeting.

Sesspool

""Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail. as, a stiff, setaceous tail.""

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

""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.""

Shadblow

Shaddock

Fight without an opponent (wordplay)

Fight the imaginary (wordplay)

Display case of sorts

Gumshoes, often

Followers

Shadowy

SHADOW to make dark or gloomy

Fish is on one's tail (wordplay)

Tailing

Tailing.

Ship's crew's rehearsal

Cold drink taken - and so to bed

Hawked son about in kind of extortion

Downsizings

Shalloon

Shallow

Preferable for new swimmers

One will not be so deeply in debt

Comparatively superficial

In a superficial manner

Secretive about worship, in a way that lacks depth

In a total mess

Chaotic and inefficient

Confused clash involving mob I fancy

Shammas

Shamoy

Did a hair salon job

Hairdresser finds spectacles in small basket

Fake Irish jewelry (wordplay)

Fake jewelry (wordplay)

St. Patrick's Day symbols

Work as a tenant farmer

Work land for a portion of the harvest

Work another's farm

Sounds like a woolly jacket for 17 across for the night

Enclosure for farm animals or duck, almost Dickensian inside

Sheepcot

Rex and Fly, in "Babe"

Wool protection of a sort

Border collies, notably

Hope's fled for the pound

Pen for lambs, ewes, etc

Pound worth every penny to Bo Peep (wordplay)

Sheikdom

Arab chief's territory

Reportedly, disturb stupid Arab leader's territory

Husband in rebuilt home with kids, in part of Arabia

""Work composed of shells, or adorned with them.""

Sherlock

Soccer players often guard them

Tibias

Type of romance (on an ocean liner)

Like some short-lived romances

Transported by ship.

Shipload

Onassis, perhaps, captive in the sun (wordplay)

Transport magnate's shown ripe bananas

At sea, person with less time to find big fish in the main (wordplay)

Marine clams, destructive to wharves and boats

Shmooze

Shoaly

Capable of being upset by sudden occurrences

Stuffed by white, black can suffer trauma

Most likely to collapse

Most carelessly done

Least workmanlike

Wading birds.

Nile birds

Boot shiner (wordplay)

One who gives you a shine

Person whose work shines

Squeezes (into)

Tongue twisters (wordplay)

They're often tied up

Breakers at the most inopportune times

One working at court (wordplay)

Oxford man (wordplay)

Oxford's last worker (wordplay)

Shoepack

Shape-saving inserts

Shape-saving footwear inserts

Closet accessories

Former Japanese government

Shoofly

Events for the police blotter

Filmmaking activities

Criminal activities

Shouts about very regressive gunfights

Soccer game tie-breakers

Staples of Westerns

Sales ladies.

Shophar

Gets a five-finger discount

Pockets at the mall

Helps oneself, in a way.

Shopping

Shoptalk

Stilt, for example

Stilt, e.g

Dinah and Larry

Water's edge.

Where the sea meets land

Area subject to erosion

The area near the shore

Heading to land

Toward land

Drawers accept years with deficits

Date in trousers causing supply problems

Runs may cause them

Sweet biscuit - rat chokes (anagram)

Diminutive dessert (wordplay)

Rate shock (anagram)

More direct ways.

Drivers' local knowledge

Expeditious ways to produce crops

Cut down to size (wordplay)

Tenor performing in hut gets cut

Condensed thus, or the ends may be off

In gambling one who causes the odds to become less

Abridger

Want a little snow (wordplay)

What's missing from shower (wordplay)

Deficiency in whisky, perhaps a drop

Pet that doesn't need much brushing, say

Feature of a crew cut.

Result of a buzz cut

Speedwriting by worker of little stature

Girl Friday's forte.

Gregg's system.

English breed of cattle.

Deity enters tonsured cow

Durham cattle breed

List of final candidates

Place for a select group

Applicants selected from a larger group

Occasional quality of breath or stature

Characteristic of LaGuardia, Napoleon, etc.

Brevity

Ozzie Smith, for one

T-shirt (wordplay)

Brief pause (wordplay)

Cropped hairdo for radio band (wordplay)

Miniature white horse is on the air

Not a long farewell on the air

They ought to start to be armed, perhaps

They ought to begin to be armed

End of sobriquet

Shall

Winter emergency brigade.

Earth movers

Winter workers

One scoop of snow

Spade's capacity

Activity after a snowstorm

Winter-time chore

Digging out after a snowstorm

Cleared the driveway, perhaps

Hole in Amundsen's equipment gets dug

How crude shelter carried by sleigh was shifted (wordplay)

Duck person doing spadework

Duck swimming over shell

He clears the way while getting over shell shock

SHOWBIZ show business

What a flashy exhibitionist does in the ring

""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

Places for trophies

Display cabinets.

Displays what Latin teacher may do to class

Perhaps Annie drinks quickly, leading to clashes

Decisive confrontations

Moments of truth for downhearted performances

Some bathers

Criminal whose gang is getting clean

Post-game activity

Washing elephant's head in circus arena (wordplay)

Las Vegas entertainers

Whose sins could produce extravagance (wordplay)

Exhibitionism

Flamboyance

Prove knight maybe is a fine specimen

Exhibit western epic shot in Oxford, say

Example of excellence

Hearst Castle, for one

Beautifully furnished home

Lavishly furnished home

Showring

Places for displaying wares

Places to check out new models

Retail display areas

Shroff

Covering

Permanent business closings

Closings

Shylock

Quarantine locales

Infirmaries

Dior beads (anagram)

Dining room sight

Dining room piece.

Carnival attractions

Circus additions

Circus attractions

Sierozem

Like some growth curves

John Hancock, famously

Indicate a politician's one in agreement

Hire a conservative for proclamation party

One place for advertising

Advertiser's medium

Where business name may be displayed

Signory

Miss Italy (wordplay)

Miss cue on air - sorry!

Young lady from Rome (wordplay)

""Pl. signorine (-n , -n ) or signorinas Used as a courtesy title for an unmarried woman in an Italian-speaking area, equivalent to Miss.""

Standing directives for road-users

They may help one along the way

Aids during 2 initial jobs

""Of or pertaining to silica; containing silica, or partaking of its nature.""

See Siliceous. Siliceous.

Rubbery polymers

Caulk compounds

Organic compounds that could make soils nice

Plural or third person singular

Lung disease once known as potter's rot

Lung disease

A disease of the lungs caused by continued inhalation of the dust of siliceous minerals and characterized by progressive fibrosis and a chronic shortness of breath.

English word

Fiber-producing caterpillars

Grubby producers of luxury material

Moth larvae useful for making fabric

Siloxane

A sedimentary material consisting of very fine particles intermediate in size between sand and clay.

Certain sedimentary rock

Type of sedimentary rock

Siluroid

Dollars, in old slang

Dollars, informally

Dollars Slang.

Ecclesiastical traffickers

Simonist

Polished with wax

Simonize

Likeable, easy to get on with

On the same page

Of like mind

Idiot! It's easy to point!

Incorrectly spelt? I'm no dope!

Effortless weight (wordplay)

Machine for training, eg, pilots

Device replicating external conditions

Flight training equipment

Note sling, for one

Stolen gin (anagram)

Record's hundred and one (wordplay)

Chants in a certain cadence.

Where people lay gleefully at camp (wordplay)

Monotonous verses

SINGSONG a monotonous drone in speaking or reading

They might swallow structures

Water-created depressions

Natural depressions

He knows China

Quality or state of being sinuous.

In a wavy manner

Stray autobus bypassing the odd arch in a meandering way

Waves with regular curves

Stealing, as gasoline

Drawing: Seurat's and Ingres's first calling

It was critical for Ultra Nate

It might be sticky

It's a job to get one into a suit

Translating into English my abridged sex book

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