9-Letter Words Starting with S

Making leaps and bounds.

Specialised for jumping

Proceeding by leaps

Excessive interest in obscene things

Likewise, cars with holly (wordplay)

Likewise (wordplay)

Erudite student has left over a year

In-form style of humour (wordplay)

Pupil of sorts

Rowe of Tiger fame

Reliable, in the main (wordplay)

Fit to be untied (wordplay)

In a fit state for ocean voyage

Of lesser importance

Not of principal importance

Minor in importance

""Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. as, secretory vessels, nerves.""

The power or authority of a lord; dominion.

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

Factor, at times, in promotions

Privilege due to time served

Status attained by some workers.

Joking apart, your isles are awful!

All joking apart

Extremely sour lies spread by unknown

SHADOW to make dark or gloomy

In a superficial manner

Secretive about worship, in a way that lacks depth

SHOWBIZ show business

John Hancock, famously

Indicate a politician's one in agreement

Hire a conservative for proclamation party

SINGSONG a monotonous drone in speaking or reading

Quality or state of being sinuous.

In a wavy manner

Stray autobus bypassing the odd arch in a meandering way

""SLOUCH to sit, stand, or move with a drooping posture""

Ornamental shrub.

""Tree Any tree of the genus Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; also called soap tree. Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; also called soap tree.""

Fellowship.

A human science

Study of human behaviour

College major

Like fighters possibly making Doris yell

SOLEMN {serious=adj}

It may hang over a memorial

Measure of seriousness

Single idiot interrupting my serious mood

Caesarean delivery (wordplay)

Talk to yourself (wordplay)

Monologue on stage

SOLVENT a substance capable of dissolving others

SONGFUL melodious

SONIC pertaining to sound

Intentionally deceptive reasoning.

Subtle but misleading reasoning

Subtly fallacious reasoning.

SOTTISH resembling a sot

With deep feeling

Like some winds

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

The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.

Of written law as to a trusty

Authorised by law

Try-outs at being required by law

STENO a stenographer

By way of resignation

With a poker face

With fortitude

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

COLONY a settlement of emigrants in a new land

COUNTY an administrative division of a state

""Pl. surrogacies The condition of being a surrogate, especially a surrogate mother.""

Foiling son by clever verbal repartee!

Fencing - 's my sport (wordplay)

One of D'Artagnan's fortes.

'The Da Vinci Code' field

The concurrence of events in time; synchronism.