9-Letter Words Starting with S

Safety

Football A safety.

""SAFETY to protect against failure, breakage or accident""

Salary

A Japanese corporate businessman.

SALARY to be paid periodically for non-manual labour

Important worker Colloq.

Important worker: Colloq.

Department store worker.

Sticking out by way of a projection

Most importantly

Salify

Making leaps and bounds.

Specialised for jumping

Proceeding by leaps

Healthiness.

As was Spartacus; arch anti (anagram)

Holy place - asylum

Place of protection

Pl. sannyasis or sannyasins Hinduism A wandering mendicant and ascetic.

Sannyasi

With insight and wisdom

Wisely

Walking in an ostentatious manner

Gliding like a supermodel

Certain good-byes

Chiba cheerios

Fukuoka farewells

Alternative to "lick-spittler!"

Playfully mischievous scamp

Rogue caught mate dividing loot

Excessive interest in obscene things

Insincerely or effusively sentimental

Effusively or insincerely emotional

Old-fashioned and sentimental

Likewise, cars with holly (wordplay)

Likewise (wordplay)

Erudite student has left over a year

In-form style of humour (wordplay)

Pupil of sorts

Rowe of Tiger fame

In a scrappy manner; in scraps.

SCRUFF the back of the neck

Scrambling up a tune about Indian food

In a hurry to sing about what's Indian

In haste to sing about what's in India, of course

So hot as to burn

Reliable, in the main (wordplay)

Fit to be untied (wordplay)

In a fit state for ocean voyage

Of lesser importance

Not of principal importance

Minor in importance

Desk organizer (wordplay)

Person of note (wordplay)

Della Street, for instance

""Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. as, secretory vessels, nerves.""

The state or quality of being sectile.

In a way not related to religion

Tender, say - moving or not!

One's 'not standing' for this!

Yes, red ant could be sitting

To all appearances.

On the surface

Apparently

""SEIGNEUR a feudal lord, also SEIGNIOR, SIGNIEUR""

The power or authority of a lord; dominion.

With concern just for one's own gain

How misers act

In an unfeeling manner.

In like manner.

DEIFY to make a god of

In an innovative and memorable way

From the very beginning

Seems that half the North is on your side in such a seedy way

The study of signs as an element of communication; the analysis of systems of communication; -- also called semiotics.semiotics.

Factor, at times, in promotions

Privilege due to time served

Status attained by some workers.

SENSATE to {sense=v}

In a self-indulgent way.

How some massages are done

In a seductive way

Quality or state of being sequacious; sequaciousness.

The office of a sergeant; sergeantship.

""Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only.""

SERIATE to put in a series

Joking apart, your isles are awful!

All joking apart

Extremely sour lies spread by unknown

""SERJEANT a noncommissioned military officer, also SERGEANT""

Serotype

SERRIED serry

In a servile manner; slavishly.

Abject submissiveness

Slave-like deference of riotous liver in said city

Submissiveness

Cut and then join together one by one

One at a time

Not all together

""A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right.""

SEXLESS lacking sexual charactistics

State that may be fluid (wordplay)

Wrongly say I exult in carnal desires

Gender preference

SHADE to screen from light or heat

SHADOW to make dark or gloomy

In a superficial manner

Secretive about worship, in a way that lacks depth

Shammy

Shamoy

English word

""SHANTY a small, crudely built dwelling""

Doing a certain dance move

Shinney

Climbing a rope, in a way

Where to set sails (wordplay)

Where some subs are fixed

Liner builders

SHOWBIZ show business

Area of small bushes

Bushy part of garden

Games pitch out in the garden

Shylock

Shyness

""Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls.""

SICKISH somewhat sick

Sickly

John Hancock, famously

Indicate a politician's one in agreement

Hire a conservative for proclamation party

In like manner

In the same vein

Likewise.

In a genuine way

In heartfelt manner.

One way to close a letter

It's expressed in a moment of truth

Openness and truthfulness

It denotes genuine quality

SINGSONG a monotonous drone in speaking or reading

SINLESS without sin

Quality or state of being sinuous.

In a wavy manner

Stray autobus bypassing the odd arch in a meandering way

Just roughly, in an artistic manner

In a manner lacking details

The vessel I got roughly drawn into this in a sly manner

Sweat, as runner struggling to secure victory

Long jumpers (wordplay)

People jumping extremely high (wordplay)

High jump aficionados (wordplay)

Sport for high jumpers (wordplay)

Advice, last part

End of the quip

Skyjack

Person who highjacks an aeroplane

Modern pirate

Modern pirate runs after sailor within island

Frolicked

SKYLARK to {frolic=v}

Stars in the roof (wordplay)

Features of some bright rooms

How the stars might go through the roof

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

Obliquely

Whack a dwarf (wordplay)

Insult Mrs. Rockefeller?

Insult Mrs. Rockefeller (wordplay)

Foxy Liberal secured for Strictly

In the manner of a servant that's wasteful, cloaked in cunning

In a gracefully thin manner

In a thin fashion

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

Slideway

""SLOUCH to sit, stand, or move with a drooping posture""

Artificial channel for water

Slurry

Slyness

With an amused expression

In a cheerful manner.

Cheerfully

Ornamental shrub.

""Tree Any tree of the genus Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; also called soap tree. Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; also called soap tree.""

Fellowship.

A human science

Study of human behaviour

College major

Like fighters possibly making Doris yell

SOLEMN {serious=adj}

It may hang over a memorial

Measure of seriousness

Single idiot interrupting my serious mood

Caesarean delivery (wordplay)

Talk to yourself (wordplay)

Monologue on stage

SOLVENT a substance capable of dissolving others

SONGFUL melodious

SONIC pertaining to sound

Sonobuoy

Soothsay

Intentionally deceptive reasoning.

Subtle but misleading reasoning

Subtly fallacious reasoning.

SOTTISH resembling a sot

With deep feeling

Like some winds

Spagyric

Very little cutting, calculating nicks

Mean to be doing it this way

In a frugal manner.

How orbits are arranged

Illicit drinking club (US)

Talk with a low-key bartender (wordplay)

Password requirer, maybe

For a particular purpose

In particular

Particularly small diamonds quietly picked up by friend

Special subject of study

Pediatrics, for example

Strong suit

Orate

Harangue.

Harangue

Speedway

Spillway

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

Freshwater algae genus

Freshwater algae

SPLASH to scatter liquid about

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

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

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

SPLUTTER to speak rapidly and confusedly

Saclike larval stage of some flatworms

The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.

What one ply's about? That's right

Full of life

Lively odds justly followed

With elasticity

Messy part (anagram) - M (wordplay)

Bond's M, perhaps

George Smiley, for one

In a squalid manner.

Wily chap is about to reverse current, so I make my way through marshland

By a list it gets impaired (wordplay)

What a gyroscope may provide

Monetary policy goal

Only for blokes, girl shows sluggishness

Lack of flow

Given one buck, she is still bad

Railing sites

Escalators

Tongue-twisting clergyman's to be corseted for flights

Keep clear of one of 11 across

STARCH to stiffen a fabric

Plant cell contain- ing starch grains

Of written law as to a trusty

Authorised by law

Try-outs at being required by law

In a loyal way

Without ambivalence

Canvas items. I say, with salts at sea

Stopping from pitching

Controlling, in a way

Small drink failing to be calming

Three metal feet to scale (wordplay)

Three metal feet with scales (wordplay)

Pittsburgh work area

Court reporter's machine

Instrument used in taking shorthand.

Court reporter's device

STENO a stenographer

How one with writer's block works

Inability to breed

Inability to reproduce

State of being unproductive or barren

Sternway

How the actor playing the giant spoke (wordplay)

Some 1960s Corvettes

Bane of shellfish

Swimmers with whiplike tails

Embroidered samplers and the like

Ornamental needlework

Stithy

Locale in Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'

Place having many pens

Feature of Chicago.

By way of resignation

With a poker face

With fortitude

The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity.

Tot's reading material

Type of happy ending

Collection of children's tales

They didn't pay

The Marxes, in "Monkey Business"

Some fare-beaters

Play golf the Curtis way (wordplay)

In an odd manner

In a weird way...

Gurn stupidly, probing vagrant's waterworks problem

Harshness of voice.

Loud and harsh quality

Quality of a shrill sound

Parasitic threadworm

Strongyl

In deliberate and premeditated manner

In deliberate or contrived manner

Duly edits in intentionally contrived manner

Lack of intelligence

Second part of the quote

Simple Simon's strong point.

Printer's guide.

It sets the tone

Summary of typefaces, etc., of a newspaper.

Unfashionable

""Having the form of, or resembling, a style, pin, or pen; styloid.""

Styliser

Still shy about start of year with class

How models dress

A la mode

Stylise

Artistic city's redesigned around tip

Pertaining to literary design or appearance

Rhetorical

Stylizer

Stylize

""The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Subbase. Subbase.""

Baffling

Stypsis

Liability to be sued; the state of being subjected by law to civil process.

SUASIVE persuasive

ACIDLY {sourly=adv}

A subordinate agency.

COLONY a settlement of emigrants in a new land

COUNTY an administrative division of a state

SUBDUED subdue

""One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.""

In a magnificent manner

In a spiritual way

In an outstanding way

The quality or state of being sublime (in any sense of the adjective).