9-Letter Words Containing: E,R,S,T,Y

• The anniversary of a person's death, usually a parent's, often marked by the lighting of a memorial candle and other rituals.

• propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon

• sends a firework display high into the sky

• shoot up abruptly, like a rocket

• someone who pays taxes

• An isolated crystal having a different origin than the igneous rock in which it is found; the mineralogical equivalent of a xenolith.

• nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order Apterygiformes

• the stroke of a key; one depression of a key on a keyboard

• the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions

• the chemical composition and properties of a substance or object

• the way two individuals relate to each other