9-Letter Words Starting with S

Freshwater algae genus

Freshwater algae

Zippy WWII fighter planes

Battle of Britain fighters

Old fighters, ones with fiery tempers

Pests in the pool

More ostentatious

Mountains (spelled backward) + Less bold = (wordplay)

Falls in drops

Makes a mess

Spills everywhere

Spleeny

Breathtaking features

Brilliancies

Odds on usurer heard to show richness

Show way to spend our pound inside

Half-hearted hostility and dismal dazzle

Sharp frogments of wood

They can get under your skin

Antipodean novel gives us the shivers

""Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral. as, the splintery fracture of a mineral.""

Cable installer's devices

Stonemasons' chisels

Fastballs that drop sharply near the plate

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

1989's word: Plunderer

Brought to you (by)

Was an angel

Like Web "articles" that are really ads

""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

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

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

Squabby

Bickering pigeon (wordplay)

One having spats

Bickering pigeon?

Squadron

Squalid

Squaller

Squally

Spends thoughtlessly

Wastes

Squasher

Squashy

Down-at-heel illegal tenants

Settlers on public lands.

Illegal occupants

Squatty

Friends gathering around wife - after end of troubles they cry

A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; called also cancer root. Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; called also cancer root.

Close calls

Narrow wins

Close games

More in need of oil

Informers Slang.

Informers: Slang.

Canaries.

Squeezer

Certain retort

Squiffy

Squinny

Eye chart eyers, at times

Squinty

Squireen

Squirmer

Squirmy

Moving in a twisting or contorted motion

Wriggling uncomfortably

Without question, sir lures wild animals

Flickertails, for example

Nut-eating mammals

Squirter

Squirt

Squishy

Staggard

Staggart

The buck began to fall over greed

Hit with a haymaker

The buck nearly fell for greed

Surprising statement: Colloq

Surprising statement Colloq.

Steps up (wordplay)

Way down in a well (wordplay)

Connecting flight (wordplay)

Railing sites

Escalators

Tongue-twisting clergyman's to be corseted for flights

Flight case (wordplay)

Shaft peer report by Spring

Space flight takes one into sun source

Brave sturdy persons

Strong and faithful supporters

Dogged souls

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

Wasn't confident, say

Emulated Mel Tillis

Spoke like Bob Newhart

Person with a speech problem

Speaker with a stutter

He hems and haws

Calgary rodeo rider, perhaps

Panicker of steers.

When Peter's mad he panics

Stancher

Are moral principles flagging (wordplay)

Exemplary colours (wordplay)

Norms in flags (wordplay)

That's right!

Right light on ship (wordplay)

Right (at sea)

More rigid

More stiff and formal - like collar (wordplay)

STARCH to stiffen a fabric

What's in the tail is about to be overhead to make it stiff

Stardust

Juicy treat from Southeast Asia

Edible Malaysian export

Sweet treat from Southeast Asia

Used a telescope

Looked raptly

Daydreamed

Galileo, for one

Galileo, for one.

Copernicus, for one

Is a night watchman (wordplay)

Enjoys a cloudless night, perhaps

Has night vision (wordplay)

Bald head can be severe condition

Desolation

Beginning in the heavens, there's nothing elaborate with this

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

Starnose

Most brilliant small time lags inside

Like the clearest nights

Describing Old Glory.

The 'Enterprise' and others

Means of interstellar travel

Enterprise and others

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!

Chickweeds

More pompous part of 7's workshop

More statuesque

More magnificent

Private cabin, say, with berth put up

Passengers's private compartment on ship

Cruise ship accommodation

Radio DJ's other job (wordplay)

Paper pusher (wordplay)

Pencil pusher (wordplay)

Of written law as to a trusty

Authorised by law

Try-outs at being required by law

Staumrel

Firmer cane hurts badly

Firmer.

Steadier

Traveled in a certain kind of ship

Crush, as an opponent

Brook no opposition

Suppress ruthlessly

Esters of fatty acids

Stearic acid salts.

Cosmetic ingredients

Solid fats

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

Cheapest crossing options, say

Cheap accommodations on passenger ships

Passenger ships' sections

Cowboy on board (wordplay)

Is the cowboy at the helm (wordplay)

One at ship's helm

Cowboys at the wheel (wordplay)

How cowboys work with tillers (wordplay)

Cowboys on board (wordplay)

Jurassic Park resident (wordplay)

Ex-herbivore with bony plates

Large, extinct herbivore

Stemware

Stenchy

Sign maker, perhaps

Person of letters (wordplay)

Many a street artist

Stereo

Sterigma

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

Sternite

Furthest back on a ship

Craft storm sent farthest back

Farthest aft

Rear admiral's trait (wordplay)

Back head of uncompromising nature

Severity not in the bows to start with

Rudder support, harsh job

Holding up rudder is a hard position

Ship's timber aft from keel to deck.

Sternson

To the rear

Sternway

Such as many hormones

Ideal sort for exercising, enhancing performance

Allen's scale notes (wordplay)

He likes to put on a performance

Dock-worker loads and unloads ships

Supervised, as a kitchen.

Managed

Petty perfectionists

Perfectionists, martinets

Disciplinarians, essentially

English word

Strong drink - starch (wordplay)

Fortifying alcoholic drink (slang)

Starch, as a laundry agent

Having died in the womb

Unfilled vacancy in pantry (wordplay)

Not yet a full house near the kitchen

Pantry's such a quiet place

Ray having a whiplike tail.

Whip-tailed ray.

Fish with whiplike tail.

Some 1960s Corvettes

Bane of shellfish

Swimmers with whiplike tails

Stinkard

Pan's little chum in cropped fungus

Malodorous mushroom

8 gives way to ancient scribe's equipment

They leave spots for southern boozers

Certain painters.

Certain painters

""A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.""

Sewing circle members

Sewers

Embroidered samplers and the like

Ornamental needlework

Racy items (wordplay)

Auto agency items.

Daytona 500 entries

Soup kitchen (wordplay)

Where goods are stored

Has the goods on the farm in 13 across

Locale in Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'

Place having many pens

Feature of Chicago.

Stolport

Former article of dress

Decoration worn to marches

Decorative panel on front of gown or bodice

Wall-growing plant; soon crept (anagram)

Plant of rocks and walls

Mosslike wall-growing plant

Caveman's cooking tools (wordplay)

Pottery has novel article in stock

Heavy, nonporous pottery

'Lust for Life' (wordplay)

Lust for Life (wordplay)

Mason's task

Seaweed-type plant.

Traveler's concern.

Breaks on the road

Places visited briefly

With a plug

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

Storable

Rising sculptor decays in cellar perhaps

Holder of many records

English jumper in charge for vault

Naval vessel for carrying supplies

Supply vessel.

Like some sales

Word for some sales.

Kind of sale

Tries most (anagram)

Sort items out, most foul

Sort items out, as most rough

Tot's reading material

Type of happy ending

Collection of children's tales

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