9-Letter Words Starting with S

Pommel

Less rapid rapids? (letters 4-7)

Thistle-like plant cultivated in India

Sallow

Sallow

Somewhat sallow.

Saline solution (wordplay)

What an ocean is made of

Always wet but never fresh

Seasonal plant (wordplay)

Saltwort

Sandworm

Mat-forming plants.

Sasswood

What the dressmakers saw (wordplay)

Material valued for cabinetmaking

Can solicit to cut down tree

Sawfish

What I did at the track (wordplay)

Woodworker's supports

Carpenter's devices

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Cads and bounders

Scoundrels

Rascals.

Alternative to "lick-spittler!"

Playfully mischievous scamp

Rogue caught mate dividing loot

A deterrent against murder (wordplay)

It's for the birds (wordplay)

Hay dummy (wordplay)

Jaywalkers, e.g

Jaywalkers, for example

Ticket dodgers

Scowder

Illegible signers

Scrawly

Writing badly

More bonier

More sticklike

More rawboned

Beantown pitch (wordplay)

Tommy's word for his opponent (wordplay)

Hubbell's famed pitch.

English word

Maximally wacky

Most absurd

Group on board beset by rest finally dismissed as extremely eccentric

Adjective meaning resembling

The larva of the screwworm fly.

A sailor's spare-time handicraft

Carving on whalebone or walrus tusk

Playwright collecting villain's carving

Seatwork

Seawater

Reliable, in the main (wordplay)

Fit to be untied (wordplay)

In a fit state for ocean voyage

Watches a fly going this way and that

Alternating in the lead.

Unable to decide

DWARF extremely small

Like some chocolate chips

Like some chocolate

Like chocolate chips used for baking

""A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y. w and y.""

WORKS work

Tighteners of sorts

Carpenter's tighteners

They fix TVs and production units

Sewerage

Shadblow

Fight without an opponent (wordplay)

Fight the imaginary (wordplay)

Display case of sorts

Gumshoes, often

Followers

Shadowy

SHADOW to make dark or gloomy

Fish is on one's tail (wordplay)

Tailing

Tailing.

Ship's crew's rehearsal

Cold drink taken - and so to bed

Hawked son about in kind of extortion

Shallow

Preferable for new swimmers

One will not be so deeply in debt

Comparatively superficial

In a superficial manner

Secretive about worship, in a way that lacks depth

Once-popular free computer download

Programs with previews

'Try before you buy' products

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

See Showbread. Showbread.

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."

Heading to land

Toward land

Cropped hairdo for radio band (wordplay)

Miniature white horse is on the air

Not a long farewell on the air

SHOWBIZ show business

What a flashy exhibitionist does in the ring

""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.""

Put on exhibit

Exhibited, as one's talent

Displayed to best advantage

Places for trophies

Display cabinets.

Displays what Latin teacher may do to class

Perhaps Annie drinks quickly, leading to clashes

Decisive confrontations

Moments of truth for downhearted performances

Some bathers

Criminal whose gang is getting clean

Post-game activity

Washing elephant's head in circus arena (wordplay)

Las Vegas entertainers

Whose sins could produce extravagance (wordplay)

Exhibitionism

Flamboyance

Prove knight maybe is a fine specimen

Exhibit western epic shot in Oxford, say

Example of excellence

Hearst Castle, for one

Beautifully furnished home

Lavishly furnished home

Showring

Places for displaying wares

Places to check out new models

Retail display areas

Most crafty and calculating

Most astute or calculating

Most astute

Shrewdie

Adjective meaning resembling

Permanent business closings

Closings

Shwanpan

Carnival attractions

Circus additions

Circus attractions

Dating app for adulterers (wordplay)

Facelift after cut and blow (wordplay)

Passing critical remark

Where al fresco diners sit

Where to "trip the light fantastic."

Cafe locales, often

Some tires have white ones

They come into play in squash

White gangster-tire features

Crab's progress.

Laterally

Silkweed

Fiber-producing caterpillars

Grubby producers of luxury material

Moth larvae useful for making fabric

Skewback

Brown-and-white horses

Making fun of mercilessly

Making fun of to the max

Taking to task

Educated plane (wordplay)

One with big ideas (wordplay)

Airborne ad maker

Manages an air line (wordplay)

Advertises aloft

Obliquely

Obliquely.

Discontented social worker knowing one's inclined to appear thus

Oblique

Go out when you've gone out (wordplay)

One way to travel at night (wordplay)

Travel at night, perhaps

Here are Le Pew's pajamas

Retirement attire

Slideway

Slipware

Slopwork

Certain labor protests

Economic declines

Delays

Ones going 50 in the fast lane, say

Laggards in a line

Dawdlers

Slowworm

Artificial channel for water

Would this elude a gardener (wordplay)

Would this elude a gardener?

Plant used as an astringent

Informal name for bistort, also describing its twisted roots

Snapweed

Drinks made from mushrooms (wordplay)

Increases at an accelerating rate

Rockets currently do within ship

White masses

Roadside accumulations for Hank and Tyra (wordplay)

European flowers

Snowbelt

Ornamental shrub.

Canadian aerobatic team, with "The"

They flock to Florida in February

They winter in Florida

Go downhill fast (wordplay)

Treasury Department panel (wordplay)

Way to go... downhill

Stuck at home, maybe

Stuck home, perhaps

Ski jump from Whittier (wordplay)

""A spiny shrub (Ceanothus cordulatus) of California and Oregon, having large clusters of small white flowers.""

Winter storm consequence

Bunch of flakes

Road blocker after a winter storm

Wood anemones.

White flowers

An obvious statement about precipitation needed for plants

Snowfall

White expanse

Canadian crystal (wordplay)

It can't be cloned

Hexagonal sign of winter

""Snowier , snowiest a. Abounding in or covered with snow: a snowy day.""

Snowland

Machine on the slopes

Snowmelt

Snowmold

Arctic masses

Goes slow on the slopes

Winter street cleaners

Blizzard battlers

Winter view

Christmas scene? Sons wrapping present, piece of clothing

Snowshed

Walked at a ski resort

One who travels on snowshoes; an expert in using snowshoes.

Winter walking wear

*Gear for walking after a fall

They'll keep you high on white powder

An avalanche of snow.

Whittier wrote about one.

Entry on a weather map.

Common cold occurrence in the Northeast

Zippered winter outfits

Winter outfits for toddlers

Winter play outfits

Soapwort

Software

Pine and cedar

Somewhat

'... over the rainbow' (song)

Amount put on, say, at a 3 unspecified

West Side Story song

Sorrower

Sad when surf low or choppy

Grief-stricken

Causing grief

Sorrow

Sourwood

Ford and Guidry

Messrs. Koslo, Lopat, Roe.

Spahn and Koufax, for two

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.

Sowbread

Stroll around the station (wordplay)

An out-of-this-world stroll (wordplay)

Modern outdoor sport.

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

Preparatory labour (in the garden?)

Preparation for excavation (wordplay)

Preliminary data gathering, perhaps

Spanworm

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

Speedway

Veronica in a hurry (wordplay)

Veronica (plant)

Despatch spring flower

Black Widow's creation (2 words)

Bed wipers (anagram)

Clue 'ego', perhaps for pastoral poem

Spillway

Bobbysoxers in usual array

Sprawly

Lying with limbs flung out

Spreading out in an ungainly fashion

Lying untidily

SQUAW an American Indian woman

Friends gathering around wife - after end of troubles they cry

Squawk

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.

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.

Keep clear of one of 11 across

Chickweeds

Like many lotteries

Throughout one of the Forty-eight.

Across all counties

Something made of steel.

Stemware

To the rear

Sternway

Supervised, as a kitchen.

Managed

STICK to support with slender pieces of wood

English word

""Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura. Jamestown weed, and Datura.""

""A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the F\'d2tidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata. F\'d2tidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.""

Gritty defence (wordplay)

Oliver's divider (wordplay)

Use delay-ing tactics

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.

Keeps time in no time if you do this!

Call off a police stakeout (wordplay)

Timepiece for timing, a race perhaps

Like some sales

Word for some sales.

Kind of sale

They didn't pay

The Marxes, in "Monkey Business"

Some fare-beaters

Strawy

""Anything scattered, as flowers for decoration.""

Studwork

Subway

Subworld

WRITER one who {writes=v}

Sumpweed

Tramp (Australian) - drink (British)

Star needs relaxant - a timely drink

Drink that's the opposite of 5, on paper

Star bloomer (wordplay)

Symbol of Kansas

Symbol of Kansas.

English word

English word

English word

English word

Snug wrap for a tot

Wrapping tightly

Sashayed or strutted

Did Ed swear and boast about the horse (wordplay)

Walked pompously

""One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow.""