8-letter words containing a, c, t, e, s
- racquets — Plural form of racquet.
- reascent — a further ascent
- recusant — refusing to submit, comply, etc.
- refracts — to subject to refraction.
- ruckseat — a seat fixed to or forming part of a rucksack
- sacheted — contained in a sachet
- sarcenet — a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
- saucepot — a cooking pot having a handle on each side and a close-fitting lid, used especially for stewing and simmering.
- scandent — climbing, as a plant.
- scantest — barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate: to do scant justice.
- scanties — women's underwear
- scarcest — insufficient to satisfy the need or demand; not abundant: Meat and butter were scarce during the war.
- scariest — causing fright or alarm.
- scattery — characterized by scattering or dispersion
- scawtite — a hydrated carbonate and silicate of calcium, Ca7Si6(CO3)O18·2H2O
- sceptral — of, resembling, or relating to a sceptre
- schantze — a pile of stones heaped to shelter soldiers from gunfire
- schemata — a diagram, plan, or scheme. Synonyms: outline, framework, model.
- schmatte — an old ragged garment; tattered article of clothing.
- scituate — a town in E Massachusetts.
- scramjet — a ramjet engine in which the flow through the combustor itself is supersonic.
- scrattle — to scratch
- scyphate — being in the shape of a cup; cup-shaped.
- seacoast — the land immediately adjacent to the sea.
- seacraft — the skills and knowledge of a sailor
- seatback — the back support of a seat in an aircraft, motor vehicle, etc.
- sectator — a member or follower of a sect
- sectoral — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- seecatch — the adult male of the fur seal, Callorhinus alascanus, of Alaska.
- selictar — the sword-bearer of a chieftain
- semantic — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- septical — septic
- sericate — sericeous; silky.
- set back — the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
- set-back — Surveying. the interval by which a chain or tape exceeds the length being measured.
- setbacks — a check to progress; a reverse or defeat: The new law was a setback.
- shechita — the Jewish method of killing animals for food
- silicate — Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.
- snatched — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- snatcher — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- societal — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- socrates — 469?–399 b.c, Athenian philosopher.
- sonicate — a thing which has been subjected to sound waves
- sortance — suitableness
- soutache — a narrow braid, commonly of mohair, silk, or rayon, used for trimming.
- speciate — to form or develop into a new biological species
- spectate — to participate as a spectator, as at a horse race.
- spectral — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- stancher — staunch2 .
- starched — a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C 6 H 1 0 O 5) n , occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods.