9-Letter Words Starting with S

Splodge

Splosh

Spotted, splashed

'Boldly spotted the third allotment': penned by Guardian setter

*Stained

Figures in Pollock paintings (wordplay)

Irregular marks

Stains

Splurger

Splurgy

Splurge

Small, quiet Liberal speaks and chokes

Confusedly articulates odds - bets not strong

Articulates confusedly about place in Eastern trusts

SPLUTTER to speak rapidly and confusedly

""A mineral of a white to yellowish, purplish, or emeraldgreen color, occuring in prismatic crystals, often of great size. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia. See Hiddenite. Hiddenite.""

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

Wheelwright's representative (wordplay)

Official voice of the cyclist (wordplay)

Representative at press conference

Representatives of groups.

Some spin doctors

Party leaders.

Pillaged

Ravages

Plunders

1989's word: Plunderer

Spondaic

Most moist and soft

Sponsion

Brought to you (by)

Was an angel

Like Web "articles" that are really ads

Spontoon

Most hair-raising

Most eerie

Spooling

Charge for a snog with a bird (wordplay)

Large wading bird

One may be roseate

Spoonful

Spoony

Spoonful

""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.

A closed body or conceptacle containing one or more masses of spores or sporangia.

Saclike larval stage of some flatworms

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

""Any of numerous parasitic protozoans of the class Sporozoa, most of which reproduce sexually and asexually in alternate generations by means of spores. They are frequently transmitted by bloodsucking insects to different hosts, where they cause many serious diseases, such as malaria and coccidiosis.""

A parasitic one-celled animal

Most dapper

Superlatively stylish

Rower perhaps left in ship by crew

He is active

He engages in physical games

Guys who fish or hunt, say

Club members, maybe

Hunters and anglers.

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.""

Most uneven, as a performance

Most erratic

Spraddle

Spraddle

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

Tearing ligaments

Sprattle

Sprattle

Bobbysoxers in usual array

Sprawly

Lying with limbs flung out

Spreading out in an ungainly fashion

Lying untidily

Some farm machines

Some farm machinery

Lawn fertilizer devices

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

Film projector teeth

Some of a bicycle's wheels

Ten-speed components

In season, blossoming (wordplay)

Growing rapidly.

Fresh growth.

Sprucy

Most spirited

Spurgall

Makers of cowboys' goods

Hurried around state, spoke excitedly

Spoke incoherently

Bumbled verbally

One who explodes vocally

Bridge player at club showing hesitation to one who speaks incoherently

Messy part (anagram) - M (wordplay)

Bond's M, perhaps

George Smiley, for one

Ran wildly, as a buffalo herd

Ran wild, as cattle

Made off frightfully fast

Calgary rodeo rider, perhaps

Panicker of steers.

When Peter's mad he panics

Horse races (wordplay)

Wild headlong rushes of animals

Annual Calgary events

Like "no postage necessary" letters

Fire hose hookup

Temporary water outlet

Tall water tank

Horse-drawn carriages

One-seat carriages

Horse-drawn high-seaters

Of or pertaining to stapes.

Stapelia

The 'Enterprise' and others

Means of interstellar travel

Enterprise and others

The Titanic, for one

Lusitania, for one

The Andrea Doria, for one

Steapsin

Increased in price

Made a higher grade

More inclined to be made like this

Quality of steps seen to develop

What gradeability is a measure of

Mountaineer's concern

Court reporter's machine

Instrument used in taking shorthand.

Court reporter's device

STENO a stenographer

Marriage acquisition, maybe

Second mate's kid (wordplay)

Offspring of spouse

Stepdame

Rudder support, harsh job

Holding up rudder is a hard position

Ship's timber aft from keel to deck.

Jewelry items worn with cravats

They might secure ties

Motorboats, to sailing fans

Powerboats

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

Soup kitchen collection

North-west town's lost rare items in soup kitchen

Stolport

Wall-growing plant; soon crept (anagram)

Plant of rocks and walls

Mosslike wall-growing plant

Urban kids' game

Street game

Stopbank

Pipe valves

Don't go there!

Part of the street scene.

Device on rear of motor vehicle.

Traveler's concern.

Breaks on the road

Places visited briefly

Unlike a juggernaut

Closures, say, shut down the presses

Red light over the leaves

Halts and interruptions.

With a plug

One of today's leading playwrights reportedly blocked at the opening

Stopple

Keeps time in no time if you do this!

Call off a police stakeout (wordplay)

Timepiece for timing, a race perhaps

Naval vessel for carrying supplies

Supply vessel.

Broke some wind in this hat (wordplay)

Lid over the cooker (wordplay)

Smoker's old head wear (wordplay)

Hold on in bus or train

Stand on a bus or train

Commute, stereotypically

English word

Type of dress.

Like clutch bags and bustiers

Like some dresses

In past, drop with a jerk

Eunuch drinking gin - it's a painful experience

Party whip takes lead, grabbing secretary for excruciating punishment

Robust persons Colloq.

Robust persons: Colloq.

Powerfully built athletes

Muscular weakness - ultimately catching

Big equipment, small changes to opening

Big and strong.

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

Stropper

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

Flowers for bordellos (wordplay)

Loose ladies

They're not so good to get blown in the ship

Stumpage

Stumpy

Stunned with astonishment

Dulled the wits or senses

Rendered speechless

See if wandering past backward places makes confused

Least likely Mensa candidate

Most moronic

Superlatively dense

Lack of intelligence

Second part of the quote

Simple Simon's strong point.

STUPOR a state of reduced sensibility

Stypsis

Beyond the foothills

Just below the treeline

Below the treeline

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

Subdepot

Subepoch

Subgraph

Subgroup

Subpanel

Subpena

PERIOD to put an end to

Subphase

Classification of plum with bushy tangles

Trial servings (wordplay)

They're served

Calls to court

POTENT a prince

SAMPLE to test a specimen of

It's written below the line

Underlines (wordplay)

Like the 2 in B2

Smaller areas of a main area

Regions within regions

Areas within areas

Subtopia

Bulleted points, perhaps

Secondary subjects

TROPIC an imaginary circle on the celestial sphere

Tchaikovsky's sweetie (wordplay)

Nutcracker fairy type

Sweet or sweetener

Sulphate

Salts help us initially to assimilate sugars in a roundabout way

Sulphide

Sulphite

Sulphone

Stop man at newspaper being fumigated

A matter of expenditure on the old oil in there to start with

Expensive-looking, splendid

Splendid, expensive-looking

Delicious and expensive

Sumpweed

Ultra-efficient but could be bettered

""SUPER to reinforce with a thin cotton mesh, as a book""

Superadd

English word

Superb

English word

Supercar

*Supplant

""SUPER to reinforce with a thin cotton mesh, as a book""

""SUPER to reinforce with a thin cotton mesh, as a book""

English word

English word

(Chemistry) Chem to cool or be cooled without freezing or crystallization to a temperature below that at which freezing or crystallization should occur. Supercooled liquids are not in equilibrium

Supercop

English word

Consciences, to analysts

Where consciences are found

Fuddy-duddies of the Freudian psyche

Superfan

English word

English word

Exceptionally good.

Adjective for sandpaper with very high grit numbers

Overnice

English word

Environmental program since 1980

A group of closely linked genes occupying a large chromosomal segment and frequently functioning as a genetic unit.

Setter of the highest quality (wordplay)

What never lets go (wordplay)

Result of trying to invent a gun sight

English word

""To heat too much, to overheat; as, to superheat an oven. as, to superheat an oven.""

Deadpool, for one

Perhaps Wonder Woman cured our herpes

Her poseur (anagram)