9-Letter Words Starting with S

Shagbark

Rawhides

Preferable for new swimmers

One will not be so deeply in debt

Comparatively superficial

Hairdresser finds spectacles in small basket

Fake Irish jewelry (wordplay)

Fake jewelry (wordplay)

St. Patrick's Day symbols

Heels, pair becoming more elegant

Evoking more "hubba-hubbas"

More likely to be watched

Like some big entrees

Work as a tenant farmer

Work land for a portion of the harvest

Work another's farm

Once-popular free computer download

Programs with previews

'Try before you buy' products

Variant of sherif .

Resembling a porbeagle

Fish's relative (wordplay)

Type of suiting.

Shiny suit fabric

Made a point of (wordplay)

End with phrase specially honed

Brushed up

Device for making a point (wordplay)

Gadget on the cutting edge (wordplay)

It makes a point or edge

What a Bramall Lane player may have!

What batsmen need for cuts (wordplay)

Acuity; Severn port

Smashed the record (wordplay)

Got a big break (wordplay)

Broken - exhausted (informal)

Shearing

A sheep but once sheared.

Scabbard makers

Hoisting device variable

Perpendicularity; Isle of Sheppey town

Vertical headland in Kent

Reported cut head in Kent town

Bird that female navigator found on lake

Duck captured by dissolute rakes

Diving duck with serrated bill

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

Her eldest becomes withdrawn

Protected from the weather

Covered loan with warden

SHELTER to provide cover or protection

Mince pie men (wordplay)

A part of every Xmas pageant.

& 28 Weed in countryman's bag

Sherbert

Sherlock

Sherris

See Showbread. Showbread.

Shielder

Shikaree

Shikar

Made a flash

Shone fitfully

Gleamed faintly.

Shingler

Type of romance (on an ocean liner)

Like some short-lived romances

Transported by ship.

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

Rowed-to ruin (wordplay)

It may mean junk ends up as junk!

Event in "The Tempest."

Where to set sails (wordplay)

Where some subs are fixed

Liner builders

Shirring

Shirty

Shirting

Not having or wearing a shirt.

Young and immature

It may stick out of one's pants

It's usually tucked in

Shivaree

Comic serenades for newlyweds.

Noisy mock serenades to newlyweds

Shiverer

Shaking (with the cold)

Shaking (with cold)

Not still feeling cold

Squeezes (into)

One working at court (wordplay)

Oxford man (wordplay)

Oxford's last worker (wordplay)

Shape-saving inserts

Shape-saving footwear inserts

Closet accessories

Sales ladies.

Shophar

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

Winter emergency brigade.

Earth movers

Winter workers

Duck person doing spadework

Duck swimming over shell

He clears the way while getting over shell shock

""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.""

Some bathers

Criminal whose gang is getting clean

Post-game activity

Washing elephant's head in circus arena (wordplay)

Las Vegas entertainers

Showring

Places for displaying wares

Places to check out new models

Retail display areas

CIA document destroyers

Document destruction devices

They end paper trails

Completely destroying (secret papers)

Tearing into thin strips

Cutting into strips.

Most crafty and calculating

Most astute or calculating

Most astute

Shrewdie

Adjective meaning resembling

Vocal feminine fans.

Shrieky

Ubiquitous Halloween sounds

Screeching.

Screeching

Shrieve

Often sexist superlative

Shrill

Some Gulf trawling vessels

Shrimpy

Gulf industry

Process of becoming less

A gherkin's pickled, getting smaller

Asking her out is withering experience

They make things get smaller

Analyst in good 1 across one reserved

Like some violets.

Kind of violet

Withered

Shroff

Covering

Area of small bushes

Bushy part of garden

Games pitch out in the garden

Shrubby

Shrug

Shivered in fear or revulsion

Trembled violently as with horror

Trembled, shivered

Shuffler

SHUNPIKE to travel on sideroads to avoid expressways

Quiet-spoken, like some windows

(Of windows) shut up

Like some windows

Sickener

Quarantine locales

Infirmaries

Dior beads (anagram)

Dining room sight

Dining room piece.

Offstage George (wordplay)

Some facial hair right, perhaps, on poet

Pain in the hip for Bobby (wordplay)

Apply fertilizer around the plants

Place fertiliser near the roots of a crop

Place plant nutrients near the roots of a growing crop

Footballer out of the game: Colloq.

Footballer out of the game Colloq.

Nonparticipant vessel

Siderite

Distract (from big issue)

Distract (from an issue)

Follow team's first draw away

Crab's progress.

Laterally

Sierozem

Siffleur

More comely.

More attractive

He visits places, say, always ancient

Tourist spot fortune teller

Visitor to famous locations

Signaler

Without exception resign, upset about the railwayman

He sent 'England expects...' to the fleet; an indication to go for the French

John Hancock, famously

Indicate a politician's one in agreement

Hire a conservative for proclamation party

Is over Midge Ure's autograph!

Button Gwinnett's claim to fame.

Is over Midge Ure's autograph

One place for advertising

Advertiser's medium

Where business name may be displayed

One that signifies.

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.""

They could make the colts 10 across

They'll lower the boom

'They make little of it, by the sound of it (9)'

Fiber-producing caterpillars

Grubby producers of luxury material

Moth larvae useful for making fabric

Siluroid

Silverer

Silver

Simaruba

In like manner

In the same vein

Likewise.

Seething

They wear fatuous smiles

Smiling in an affected and silly way

Smugly smiling

I am through in song with such a silly smile

Representations (of someone/something)

Kind of light chemical is raising images

Curve on mineral is coming up in images

Archaic A simulacrum.

Machine for training, eg, pilots

Device replicating external conditions

Flight training equipment

In a genuine way

In heartfelt manner.

One way to close a letter

Most deeply felt

Least affected after sleep

...because support's most honest

It's expressed in a moment of truth

Openness and truthfulness

It denotes genuine quality

Jobs that pay while you stay in the hay

Way-too-easy jobs

Cushy positions

Individuals

Opposite of dextral

Left-handed.

Left-handed

Sinter

Sirenian

Sirvente

Sister

Indian lute players

Sitzmark

Skelter

Sketcher

Vaguer in outline - stick here (anagram)

Less elaborated sportsman's clothing cut

Less clearly drawn

Making fun of mercilessly

Making fun of to the max

Taking to task

Skiagram

SKIBOB to travel in a sleigh-type vehicle over snow

Non-slip surface of skateboard's child-resistant

Skijorer

Winter sport.

Winter sport

Skioring

Led on the bowling green (wordplay)

Led the team on the green

Was the captain of a ship

Skirting

Ran like an iguana

The kit's got treed, having scuttled off

Skipped, as a fishing lure

Skreegh

Skreigh

Long jumpers (wordplay)

People jumping extremely high (wordplay)

High jump aficionados (wordplay)

Person who highjacks an aeroplane

Modern pirate

Modern pirate runs after sailor within island

Frolicked

SKYLARK to {frolic=v}

Blue salad plant to rise suddenly!

Shoot up abruptly

Go through the roof

Educated plane (wordplay)

One with big ideas (wordplay)

Airborne ad maker

Manages an air line (wordplay)

Advertises aloft

Slabber

Dragged through the mud, maybe

What Mrs. Slipslop did.

Attacked the good name of

Owner of a bad tongue.

One who defames another

One's words may lead to action

Put on lavishly

Laid on thick

Used wastefully

Untidy women mislaid Len's tarts

Promiscuous women

Killing (of farm animals)

Start to shake with mirth that's killing

Fall about in almost relentless defeat

Slaverer

Slavery

Group of serfs, drooling (wordplay)

In need of a bib, maybe

Oppressed person on phone exuding drivel

Teen party, maybe

Stay with a friend, say

Preteens' party, maybe

Here are Le Pew's pajamas

Retirement attire

Sleigher

Series about banker, not so fat

Thinner line in poster engineers put up (wordplay)

Less robust.

In a gracefully thin manner

In a thin fashion

Slightly cunning about someone who might help with money (wordplay)

English word

Slimpsy

False alibi (wordplay)

Chair upholstery item

False alibi?

Slipform

V-necks, for example

Some sweaters

Tops minimum amount of money invested in crafty solvers

Beaten with indoor shoe

Like Cinderella

Slipware

Emulated a snake

Moved like a snake

Moved like a snake.

Sliverer