9-Letter Words Starting with S

""SACCULE a small sac, also SACCULUS""

See note (nonverbal)

Money lost in selling if car ices over

Offering to a god

Theft from a temple, say

Misuse of something sacred

Violation of a holy thing

Red fabric dye.

Shaped like an arrowhead

Aircraft transaction simple, they say

Glider of a sort

Sound transaction straightforward for aircraft

Very innocent shot in talkies

Newly descriptive of Sir Clive (wordplay)

Newly descriptive of the Redknapps (wordplay)

The hard sound of S with S (wordplay)

The way one supports smooth rock!

Sound quality for George (wordplay)

""Soft, thoroughly decomposed rock rich in clay and remaining in its original place.""

Old-time Spanish dance.

Stately Spanish dance

Spanish dance variable

One of the segments into which a fibril of striated muscle is divided.

A large specialized mitrochondrion found in striated muscle.

Explorer, for one.

Latest lie broadcast from the moon, say

Orbiter of planet

Capable of being saturated; admitting of saturation.

As, perhaps, in E it's so gloomy

Rested funerary vessel in earth grave

Gloomy heavenly body in the east

Strawberry geranium, for one

Rosette-shaped flower

Plant such as London pride

Charlie Parker's 'horn' (wordplay)

It gives music

Single-reed instrument

""A. One of the many small platelike dermal or epidermal structures that characteristically form the external covering of fishes, reptiles, and certain mammals.""

Like bar codes

Like a QR code

A grayish white mineral occuring in tetragonal crystals and in cleavable masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina and soda.

""Calcium tungstate, a mineral of a white or pale yellowish color and of the tetragonal system of crystallization.""

""Any of various medium-grained to coarse-grained metamorphic rocks composed of laminated, often flaky parallel layers of chiefly micaceous minerals.""

US slang (from Yiddish) for the nose

School head covered in piercings may constitute a feature

Beak

Make systematic

A zeolitic mineral occuring in delicate radiating groups of white crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia and lime. Called also lime mesotype. lime mesotype.

Noun (-age)

Adjective meaning resembling

Disorderly struggle (on sports field)

Game that's just for practice

Noisy brawl or struggle

Daily reading, for some

It may be quoted in church

Sacred writings as of Christians

Forwards get packing!

Brawl (at rugby union)

Formation that often collapses

Easy to get

Art, figuratively speaking (wordplay)

The sort of art that may give one relief

Art in three dimensions

Disposed to solitude

Tight-lipped, reticent

Tending to hide things

Close drip, stopping leak

Know about Channel 4? It's tempting!

Like Salome

Charming Spanish golfer interrupted by Channel 1

Easter-egg (anagram)

Separate by race or religion

Part is for Easter egg production

Choosy about who plays (wordplay)

Part of SSS

Type of service

Flagged discussion (wordplay)

Army signalling (wordplay)

Flagging conversation (wordplay)

Like; similar; resembling.

Like to have this (wordplay)

Misleading outward appearance

Apparent form

Whole note, to a British composer

Note equal to two minims

Note equivalent to four crotchets

""MATTE to produce a dull finish on, also MATT""

Sensilla

Make more responsive

Suspect it's injected to prepare for a reaction

Responsive to physical stimuli

Steve is in trouble, being easily upset

Quick to respond

Make responsive to others' feelings

To make emotionally receptive

Attune

Consciousness - ten nieces (anagram)

What Data had, but a toaster does not

Robot's lack

Not too tight (wordplay)

Unlike bosom buddies

Not totally fused

Meerschaum. See Meerschaum. Meerschaum.

Dead end here, perhaps...

Where you may find dead end (wordplay)

Helps cure (anagram)

The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment.

SERIAL a publication presented in instalments

Publish, in a way.

Publish in a certain way.

Broadcast in regular installments

Perform a clerical task

It's more to the North in size the way you deliver it, in a manner of speaking

Preach

Diner's linen item

Setter out about to compete with wiper

Table napkin at Buckingham palace

That's legal slavery

State of slavery

I've rudest torment in slavery

Capable of being severed.

Last check, maybe

Cabbage for canning (wordplay)

Dismissal from employment

To attribute sex to.

Marten eats fish that can be agitated

SHAPE to fashion into a form

Like some big entrees

Once-popular free computer download

Programs with previews

'Try before you buy' products

Resembling a porbeagle

Adjective meaning resembling

Sounds like a woolly jacket for 17 across for the night

Enclosure for farm animals or duck, almost Dickensian inside

Adjective meaning resembling

Bird that female navigator found on lake

Duck captured by dissolute rakes

Diving duck with serrated bill

Adjective meaning resembling

Admitting of being shifted.

Shigella

Transported by ship.

A. A vessel of considerable size for deep-water navigation.

Proper wicked hash pipes!

Very trim - and proud of it, we hear!

Ready to sail; also, neat and clean

Capable of being upset by sudden occurrences

Stuffed by white, black can suffer trauma

Former Japanese government

Water's edge.

Where the sea meets land

Area subject to erosion

The area near the shore

Sweet biscuit - rat chokes (anagram)

Diminutive dessert (wordplay)

Rate shock (anagram)

Cropped hairdo for radio band (wordplay)

Miniature white horse is on the air

Not a long farewell on the air

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

Adjective meaning resembling

Process of becoming less

A gherkin's pickled, getting smaller

Asking her out is withering experience

Hissing bird upset pike

Hissing quality

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

Mistress, in slang

Disrespected mistress, in slang

The other woman, in somewhat objectifying slang

Dating app for adulterers (wordplay)

Facelift after cut and blow (wordplay)

Passing critical remark

Mark, notably a single, is desperate

To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.

Is over Midge Ure's autograph!

Button Gwinnett's claim to fame.

Is over Midge Ure's autograph

""Pl. signorine (-n , -n ) or signorinas Used as a courtesy title for an unmarried woman in an Italian-speaking area, equivalent to Miss.""

Silicula

""(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a fine smooth cotton fabric used for linings, etc. [from silk + -aline, from -oline as in crinoline ]""

English word

Certain sedimentary rock

Type of sedimentary rock

Archaic A simulacrum.

He knows China

Kelvin, journalist in charge? Run away!

Run off hurriedly (colloq.)

See instructions (nonverbal)

Mountain patrol vehicle

Winter transport

""A leaping or jumping movement, especially a gait in which hops and steps alternate.""

Shoptalk, for example

Hybrid term for colorful vocabulary

Colorful vocabulary

Obliquely.

Discontented social worker knowing one's inclined to appear thus

Oblique

Adjective meaning resembling

Resembling hypnosis

Like deli meats

Odious creatures dressed in black may well be cut

SLOGAN a motto adopted by a group

Cottage cheese, to some

Cottage cheese

Cottage cheese.

English word

SMOKE to emit a gas or vapour due to burning

Adjective meaning resembling

Very slow, as a pace

Very slow

Sluggish

Slithering Racer X song (wordplay)

Drink (dangerous if given by 18!)

Poisonous drink (wordplay)

Twisting

Ophidian

Canadian crystal (wordplay)

It can't be cloned

Hexagonal sign of winter

Winter view

Christmas scene? Sons wrapping present, piece of clothing

An avalanche of snow.

Marker for style of TV serial (wordplay)

Teaspoons made of steatite (wordplay)

Soft form of rock

""SOCIAL a friendly gathering, also SOCIABLE""

Park Avenue resident.

Claudia Cohen, for example

Prominent attendee at fashionable events

Mix at a party

Convert to public ownership, as industry

English word

Observe with dignity

Bottom of a flatiron

Iron's base

Game for one

Diamond; game for one

*Diamond in an engagement ring, perhaps*

Here or there

At an unspecified location

In an unspecified location

'... over the rainbow' (song)

Amount put on, say, at a 3 unspecified

West Side Story song

Nineteen-year-old, perhaps

Second-class citizen (wordplay)

Second-year student in USA

Divination by drawing lots

Fortune-telling

Divine drawing of lots of egrets smeared with oil

Actress taking lighter roles

A pert little part for a girl

Coquettish female comedy role

Capable of being sounded.

Put under the hammer and sickle

Convert to Stalinism

Render communistic.

SPALLE the shoulder

Like surplus resources

""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.""

Spoon-shaped

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

Expectorated before you get dead and thickened

Capable of being spoken; fit to be spoken.

Pat Eccles recovers sight

Select cap randomly from display

Visually striking performance

Gamble on investments

A gambler will do it to accumulate

Deliberate risk on the markets

Like notes ready to be blown (wordplay)

Kind of income

Like money, there for using - hang staying in the black!

Adjective meaning resembling

SPILL to overflow from a container

Adjective meaning resembling

Having spinules; minutely spiny.

""A mineral of a white to yellowish, purplish, or emeraldgreen color, occuring in prismatic crystals, often of great size. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia. See Hiddenite. Hiddenite.""

Likely to decay.

A substance used to kill spores.

Lotus and pear used to produce seeds

""Made, paid, or delivered immediately: a spot sale.""

Get under control

Eliminate fluctuations in

Thwart political unrest abroad, in hegemonic parlance

Type of desk tray

STAGE to produce for public viewing

Adjective meaning resembling

Like white dresses and unfinished wood

Steps up (wordplay)

Way down in a well (wordplay)

Connecting flight (wordplay)

Reason for marital breakup (wordplay)

Old fellow's tie (wordplay)

Reason for marital breakup?

Designating pollen-bearing flowers.

Fire hose hookup

Temporary water outlet

Tall water tank

That can be asserted Var.

That can be asserted variable

Team, say, leading in America

Hawaiian's destination, perhaps

Desist, Tea Party, in America!

Like many lotteries

Throughout one of the Forty-eight.

Across all counties

Oscar, for one.

Oscar, for one

Model by the minute (wordplay)

STEALE a handle

Can the beast answer the helm (wordplay)

Equipped with a rudder and wheel, say

Capable of turning

Court reporter's machine

Instrument used in taking shorthand.

Court reporter's device

Pass through fire, perhaps

Make safe for use, in a way

Boil, perhaps

Allen's scale notes (wordplay)

He likes to put on a performance

Dock-worker loads and unloads ships

""A long slender piece of wood, especially: a. A branch or stem cut from a tree or shrub.""

Fan fire (wordplay)

Stir up trouble? I must after hours!

Opposite of "bore."

Ray having a whiplike tail.

Whip-tailed ray.

Fish with whiplike tail.

Specify as a condition or requirement

Specify, as in a contract

Specify as an essential part

Reserve supply (of weapons)

Hoard standard carpeting material

Government reserve supply

Caveman's cooking tools (wordplay)

Pottery has novel article in stock

Heavy, nonporous pottery

Unlike a juggernaut

Like some sales

Word for some sales.

Kind of sale

Broke some wind in this hat (wordplay)

Lid over the cooker (wordplay)

Smoker's old head wear (wordplay)

Limitation or hostile criticism

Sternly critical remark

Restriction or stern criticism

Quality of being harsh or shrill.

Harsh quality

Shrillness

Strobila

Parasitic threadworm

Arrangement of parts.

Building or organised arrangement

The Space Needle, for example.

Stable father figure (wordplay)

Stallion, taking its head thus, rode off

Former Derby winner, often

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

Beyond the foothills

Just below the treeline

Below the treeline

Make pieces of pieces (wordplay)

Break into smaller units

Break into smaller sections

Bring under the yoke.

Two vessels put away for master

Bring under domination

Redirect (feelings) into safer channels

Purify, in a way

Transform into a purer form

Nautilus, for one

The Sea Wolf

Jules Verne's dream come true.

To put in the place of another; to substitute.

SAMPLE to test a specimen of

Pay money regularly for, say, magazine

Apply (to receive an issue of shares)

Apply (for an issue of shares)

Support through grants

Pay a grant towards

Give a grant towards

Back with bucks

Drug found in property (wordplay)

Reserve opinion for matter

Advance point of view in matter

Circuit board layer

Underlying layer

Material on which another material is deposited

To make thin or fine; to make less gross or coarse.

A salt of succinic acid.

Cut off sea and cut off air

Kill rowing team from Ipswich, say (wordplay)

Kill by blocking the air passages

SUFFUSE to spread throughout

Plantation crop (2 words)

Grass suing when not in on secret

Source of a valuable commodity.