9-Letter Words Starting with S

Sorption

Sortie

Divination by drawing lots

Fortune-telling

Divine drawing of lots of egrets smeared with oil

Drawing by lots

Prolonged, in music

Beyond the noted value, musically

Slowed musical passage

SOTTISH resembling a sot

Actress taking lighter roles

A pert little part for a girl

Coquettish female comedy role

Soutache

Location of Wexford, say

Waco-to-Galveston direction

Cape of Tasmania.

Like some winds

Southern

Southing

Dixie

Ford and Guidry

Messrs. Koslo, Lopat, Roe.

Spahn and Koufax, for two

Southron

In the direction of Cork, say

In the direction of Waterford, say

In the direction of Spain

Needle point to sew thus: poorly

Arizona, New Mexico, etc.

U. S. region.

Anti-capitalist movement thus is ousting North America from Asian country

Very old soldier is crossing Italy crushing mass communist principles

Put under the hammer and sickle

Convert to Stalinism

Render communistic.

Mos Eisley, for one

Opening scene of many sci-fi flicks

Sci-fi traveler's stop

SPAETZLE tiny dumplings

Would one wind up eating this (wordplay)

Consumers may well be twisters!

Food that might get at hips, perhaps

Sparky

Sparry

""A narcotic alkaloid extracted from the tops of the common broom (Cytisus scoparius, formerly Spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of anilinelike odor and very bitter taste. Cytisus scoparius, formerly Spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of anilinelike odor and very bitter taste.""

How orbits are arranged

Spotted by a mudslinger (wordplay)

Trap steed (anagram)

Small talk on journalist's spread

Spoon-shaped

Was spitting at you of late? That's a bit thick

Expectorated before you get dead and thickened

Arms factory (wordplay)

Chewing-gum flavor

Man with priest relaxed chewing gum

A name given to several species of crowfoot (Ranunculus) which have spearshaped leaves. Ranunculus) which have spearshaped leaves.

Special subject of study

Pediatrics, for example

Strong suit

Speciate

Speciate

Pat Eccles recovers sight

Select cap randomly from display

Visually striking performance

Spectate

Sits on the sidelines

Watches from the stands

Views the game

A model inspector at cricket, say ...

Playing to the crowd (wordplay)

One to watch!

Broad ranges

Gamble on investments

A gambler will do it to accumulate

Deliberate risk on the markets

Launch full of drugs (wordplay)

One making waves

High-speed vessel

Least time-wasting.

'Oh yeah ... uh-huh'

Exceeding all in expedition

Jensen, perhaps: a car for the fleet

Fast car (or driver)

'50s Porsche 356 roadster variant

Non-motile male gametes in red seaweeds

""Of or pertaining to semen; as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc. as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc.""

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

Sphery

Riddler endlessly chattering, loathing lost muscle

Muscle inclined to pinch with rest - stopped up

Body part in a "Wayne's World" joke used to get the other guy to say "What?"

Spiccato

Most polished

Spikelet

Fine snow driven by the wind

Spray blown along surface of sea

Spray blown from the crests of waves

Science fiction novel by Timothy Zahn

Web-making part of a spider

Spider's organ

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

Snip tress (anagram)

Hip publicists (wordplay)

Relatives of bachelor girls.

Secretly carrying (away)

Making leave (with "away")

Secretly carrying (off)

Occult belief

Seance medium, for example

Lively liquor (old standing order)

In music, to be played in an animated way

Trip I arranged in pretty average surroundings - but in an animated way

Like spirit; refined; defecated; pure.

Go Down Moses, for one

Soul music (wordplay)

Of things of the soul

Having or evidencing a refined mind and wit.

Classroom projectiles, perhaps

Wild pitches (wordplay)

Hard-to-hit pitches

Zippy WWII fighter planes

Battle of Britain fighters

Old fighters, ones with fiery tempers

Receptacles for tobacco chewers

Loogie containers

Napa buckets

Falls in drops

Makes a mess

Spills everywhere

Splat

A physical deformity characterized by abnormally flat and turned-out feet.

A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.

Illustrious.

Splashed out having received loan! That's brilliant!

Shining

Pencil set (anagram)

Being irritable, select pin differently

There's a splice around the cross net

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.""

Splint

Cable installer's devices

Stonemasons' chisels

Fastballs that drop sharply near the plate

Divulging secrets, and leaving

Like some headaches

Dividing

Spotted, splashed

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

*Stained

Figures in Pollock paintings (wordplay)

Irregular marks

Stains

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

Pillaged

Ravages

Plunders

1989's word: Plunderer

Most moist and soft

Spontoon

Most hair-raising

Most eerie

Spoony

Saclike larval stage of some flatworms

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

Sprattle

Sprattle

What one ply's about? That's right

Full of life

Lively odds justly followed

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

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

SQUAT to sit on one's heels

Down-at-heel illegal tenants

Settlers on public lands.

Illegal occupants

Most dumpy workers in group avoiding last time trial

Squatty

Sedentary occupation (wordplay)

In a crouch

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.

Eye chart eyers, at times

Squint

Squinty

Looking with partly closed eyes

One way to be looking cross

Involved in fraud, one in five not looking straight (wordplay)

Squirter

Squirt

By a list it gets impaired (wordplay)

What a gyroscope may provide

Monetary policy goal

Get under control

Eliminate fluctuations in

Thwart political unrest abroad, in hegemonic parlance

Groom, for example

Ostler, groom etc

'Blast, mane needs grooming!' is what he often thinks

Chaps looking after beasts in detestable menagerie

Country workers in firm facing threat, not half

Country workers seen as steady and reliable chaps (wordplay)

Horse houses

Abrupt speech patterns

Detached musical notes

Pets rejected famous Roman's clipped bits

Type of desk tray

STAGE to produce for public viewing

Stageful

He may convey properties

Person moving theatre props

Theater crew member

Adjective meaning resembling

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.

Staggy

British armed reconnaissance car.

One whose quarry is sought and abused (wordplay)

Hunting dog

The theatrical behaviour of 11 across (wordplay)

One buck in the start of what's theatrical

Only for blokes, girl shows sluggishness

Lack of flow

Given one buck, she is still bad

Got stuck in a rut

Was in a rut

Hit the doldrums

Ceases to flow

Rump of venison possibly festers

Lacks activity

There's nothing exciting for Des's saint

Tarnish, with bit of dirt, symbol of Superman's composure

Sober quality of Thames-side town restricting daughter and son

Like white dresses and unfinished wood

Lest a sin's done without it (wordplay)

This steel contains chromium

Kind of steel

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

Observances of the law

Surveillances in anticipation of crime

Surveillance jobs

Reason for marital breakup (wordplay)

Old fellow's tie (wordplay)

Reason for marital breakup?

Lack of originality.

Quality of old bread

Lack of being fresh

Stalky

Having no stalk.

Megan's namesakes (wordplay)

The last equine felines at last

Horses named for their enclosures

Brave sturdy persons

Strong and faithful supporters

Dogged souls

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

Designating pollen-bearing flowers.

Wasn't confident, say

Emulated Mel Tillis

Spoke like Bob Newhart

Person with a speech problem

Speaker with a stutter

He hems and haws

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

Stancher

Stanch

Stanch

Upright bar or beam

Vertical support post

Chain's not unhooked from post

Are moral principles flagging (wordplay)

Exemplary colours (wordplay)

Norms in flags (wordplay)

Keep clear of one of 11 across

Hooperatings, for instance

Sports-page feature

Sports-page listings

Ties, in ball games.

Things conspicuous for their excellence

Recalcitrant members of a group.

Preeminent examples

Fire hose hookup

Temporary water outlet

Tall water tank

Horse-drawn carriages

One-seat carriages

Horse-drawn high-seaters

Stannite

Of or pertaining to stapes.

Stapelia

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

That can be asserted Var.

That can be asserted variable

For Hawaii and Alaska (wordplay)

Territory's future, perhaps

For Hawaii and Alaska?

Like the man without a country

Like Edward Snowden

Without a country.

More pompous part of 7's workshop

More statuesque

More magnificent

Saint was cannibal? Time for disclosure!

New Testament revelation (wordplay)

Announcement, issued by the bank say