9-Letter Words Starting with S

Defend strongbox with soldier

As a precaution protect chest first

Radar, for instance.

Plank for windsurfing

Item rented at beach resorts

Windsurfer's craft

Composure if dragon's in a whirl

Composure in trying circumstances

Coolness under pressure.

Raised its New Order, and made a mockery

Weird rites said to have been ridiculed

Swift activity. Prior approach

Swiftly written (wordplay)

Last letter supports its air strangely mocked

Sent up

Animal fat may be soaked

Soaked through and through

So a king, having been in water

Of or belonging to the Saturniidae.

Walked casually into sea, turned rough

Walked casually

Strolled with relative on Sunday - and shot deer!

Doggedly hurried for a single (wordplay)

Raced, in a way

Played tag, for example

Words in huge print

Dies about the car if it's been marked

Unfortunately, Iris faced having skin punctured

Cleared off

Rushed from steep slope before break of day

Second vehicle went over river and got away

Field placings for Flintoff!

The cats got tree'd here and there

*Dispersed, as a crowd

Invested with royal authority.

Invested with imperial authority

Like Shakespeare.s isle

Schmeer

The discs get round what's sore when cut

Cut through the rugby defence with the old one-two (wordplay)

Cut out

Sclerose

Like or pertaining to the Mackerel family.

Perhaps twenty-one in the pack for tally

Course record (wordplay)

It no doubt records at least 20 runs!

Scorify

Scowder

Clawed, small crustacean showed sign of injury

Scraich

Scraigh

Hurriedly took flight when beaten

Wandered at last to get eggs like this

Eggs whisked and stirred

Scored or was withdrawn (wordplay)

Slightly damaged, so withdrawn

Withdrew, slightly injured

Made like an owl

Cried in a strident voice

Sounded shrill one of the longest one-syllable words (nonverbal)

Wrote, as a signature on a receipt

Written carelessly

Wrote informally

Scrooch

Did some foraging

Monosyllabic word meaning "cadged"

Co-eds rung up and cadged

Uncultivated area

Made a deep-in-concentration face

Crushed noisily

Compacted

Scunner

When Dec's up about the up part, that has you down

One at the bar higher with the editor and sank the lot

Scutter

A seashore.

Stiff, but not inflexible

Somewhat inflexible

How one took a part (wordplay)

Isolated copies retrospectively valued

How Kipling saw East and West.

Sung to (from below window)

Did a number on (wordplay)

Went a-courting, perhaps

Made a point of (wordplay)

End with phrase specially honed

Brushed up

Smashed the record (wordplay)

Got a big break (wordplay)

Broken - exhausted (informal)

Her eldest becomes withdrawn

Protected from the weather

Covered loan with warden

See Showbread. Showbread.

Shikar

Made a flash

Shone fitfully

Gleamed faintly.

Type of romance (on an ocean liner)

Like some short-lived romances

Shivaree

Stilt, for example

Stilt, e.g

Dinah and Larry

Heading to land

Toward land

Cut down to size (wordplay)

Tenor performing in hut gets cut

Condensed thus, or the ends may be off

Speedwriting by worker of little stature

Girl Friday's forte.

Gregg's system.

""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.""

Withered

Shivered in fear or revulsion

Trembled violently as with horror

Trembled, shivered

Quiet-spoken, like some windows

(Of windows) shut up

Like some windows

Dior beads (anagram)

Dining room sight

Dining room piece.

One place for advertising

Advertiser's medium

Where business name may be displayed

Skelter

Led on the bowling green (wordplay)

Led the team on the green

Was the captain of a ship

Ran like an iguana

The kit's got treed, having scuttled off

Skipped, as a fishing lure

Skreegh

Skreigh

Frolicked

Slabber

Dragged through the mud, maybe

What Mrs. Slipslop did.

Attacked the good name of

Put on lavishly

Laid on thick

Used wastefully

Beaten with indoor shoe

Like Cinderella

Emulated a snake

Moved like a snake

Moved like a snake.

Acted like a baby, in a way

Talked like a toper

Licked, like a dog does

Slubber

Logged Z's

Burdened dragging pole, so rested

Son, given heavy responsibility, slept

Made neater by tradesmen

Wised (up)

Got wise, with "up"

Would this elude a gardener (wordplay)

Would this elude a gardener?

Learned superficially

Dabbled in

Dabbled

Displayed suppressed anger

Didn't flare

Did a slow burn

Drenched in sauce

Her modest fancy will get stifled

Stifled, he stormed out

Long-necked bird allied to cormorant

SNEAKER one that {sneaks=v}

Laughed, in a way.

Laughed in undignified fashion.

Queen in Dickens novel laughed

Giggled, British style.

Laughed disrespectfully.

Laughed derisively

Blocked at The Crucible (wordplay)

Restricted by O'Sullivan (wordplay)

In a real pickle

Engaged in some ecotourism, maybe

Swam with the fishes, say

Went finswimming, maybe

Go downhill fast (wordplay)

Treasury Department panel (wordplay)

Way to go... downhill

Soberize

Onerous DJ (anagram)

Visited awhile

Al departed, therefore newspaper editor stayed temporarily

Solarise

Solarize

Idler does need to be beaten (shirked)

Joined keeping unit and served in the army

Malingered.

In the direction of Cork, say

In the direction of Waterford, say

In the direction of Spain

""; adj. Toward, to, or in outer space.""

Spotted by a mudslinger (wordplay)

Trap steed (anagram)

Small talk on journalist's spread

Lead (a military attack)

Lead (an attack)

Lead (an attack or movement)

Any of the four haploid cells formed by meiosis in a male organism that develop into spermatozoa without further division.

Plant of the ginseng family

Aromatic East Indian plant.

Aromatic root

Grew, like some churches, welcoming everybody

Brought to you (by)

Was an angel

Like Web "articles" that are really ads

Spraddle

Sprattle

English word

Rained a bit

Caused umbrellas to open

Made umbrellas necessary

Hurried around state, spoke excitedly

Spoke incoherently

Bumbled verbally

The buck began to fall over greed

Hit with a haymaker

The buck nearly fell for greed

Wasn't confident, say

Emulated Mel Tillis

Spoke like Bob Newhart

That's right!

Right light on ship (wordplay)

Right (at sea)

Used a telescope

Looked raptly

Daydreamed

Traveled in a certain kind of ship

Three metal feet to scale (wordplay)

Three metal feet with scales (wordplay)

Pittsburgh work area

To the rear

Supervised, as a kitchen.

Managed

Locale in Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'

Place having many pens

Feature of Chicago.

With a plug

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

Was on both sides!

Took an equivocal position Colloq.

Took an equivocal position: Colloq.

Wandered from the direct course

Wandered off.

Leader of tour intercepting hapless laggers who'd ultimately wandered from group

Choked to death

What Othello did to Desdemona

Choked and killed

Stravage

It holds water

It holds running water

Rock locale

Extended, one's limbs perhaps

Like some truths

Extended in time or space

Strickle

Had difficulty (with)

Found the going tough

Made violent efforts.

Sang 'My Generation,' say

Sang "My Generation," say

Good man spoke - with hesitation!

Suberise

Suberize

Underwater mud grebes churned up

Completely covered by liquid

Under water

Developing buds seem to have resistance under water

PERIOD to put an end to

Subserve

Undermined

Comforted, having been duped by The Voice

Sounds as if one has helped to have removed shoots on the side

Stop man at newspaper being fumigated

Red from rays

Bright red in summer

Suffering from overexposure to the source of light

Environmental program since 1980

English word

English word

English word

English word

Took sides with

Bolstered up

Bolstered, sustained

Came to an end

Drew to a close

Discontinued

On which to have a swell time (wordplay)

On which to make waves (wordplay)

On which to rule the waves (wordplay)

Overfed fruit seed, possibly

Hear master had a seizure, having overindulged

Refused it anyway, having had more than enough

Did better than

Did better to dress up as arranged

Idiot introduced to silly prudes excelled

Is that what you expected (wordplay)

One thing one doesn't expect to be

Shocked by teacher valued in hearing

Surprize

Sashayed or strutted

Did Ed swear and boast about the horse (wordplay)

Walked pompously

E.g. bloody weapon put over wardrobe

Curse deterioration in a weapon

Censor's target

Suffered from great heat

Suffered from excessive heat

Felt the heat

Pig's head (wordplay)

Gurth, in "Ivanhoe"

Tender of pigs

Swither