8-letter words containing a, e, t, s
- saboteur — a person who commits or practices sabotage.
- sabotier — a wearer of sabots
- sacheted — contained in a sachet
- sad tree — night jasmine (def 1).
- sagenite — a variety of rutile occurring as needlelike crystals embedded in quartz.
- saginate — to fatten (livestock)
- saintess — a female saint
- salivate — to produce saliva.
- salmonet — a young salmon
- salteaux — a member of a Native Canadian people of Manitoba
- saltless — lacking salt.
- saltness — the state or quality of being salt or salty.
- sanative — having the power to heal; curative.
- sanitate — to make sanitary; equip with sanitary appliances: to sanitate a new town.
- sanities — the state of being sane; soundness of mind.
- sanitise — to free from dirt, germs, etc., as by cleaning or sterilizing.
- sanitize — to free from dirt, germs, etc., as by cleaning or sterilizing.
- santa fé — a city in E Argentina.
- santarem — a city in N Brazil, on the Amazon River.
- santeria — (sometimes lowercase) a religion merging the worship of Yoruba deities with veneration of Roman Catholic saints: practiced in Cuba and spread to other parts of the Caribbean and to the U.S. by Cuban emigrés.
- sao tome — Democratic Republic of, a republic in W Africa, comprising the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, in the Gulf of Guinea, N of the equator: a former overseas province of Portugal; gained independence in 1975. 372 sq. mi. (964 sq. km). Capital: São Tomé.
- saponite — a clay mineral, hydrous magnesium aluminum silicate, belonging to the montmorillonite group: found as a soft filling in rock cavities.
- sappiest — abounding in sap, as a plant.
- sarcenet — a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
- sarraute — Nathalie [na-ta-lee] /na taˈli/ (Show IPA), (Nathalie Ilyanova Tcherniak) 1900–1999, French novelist, born in Russia.
- sarsenet — a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
- sassetta — Stefano di Giovanni [ste-fah-naw dee jaw-vahn-nee] /ˈstɛ fɑ nɔ di dʒɔˈvɑn ni/ (Show IPA), 1392?–1450, Italian painter.
- sassiest — impertinent; insolent; saucy: a sassy reply; a sassy teen.
- sateless — insatiable; not able to be sated
- satelles — a planet that revolves around a larger planet
- sather-k — (language) Karlsruhe Sather. A sublanguage of Sather used for introductory courses in object-oriented design and typesafe programming. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- satiable — capable of being satiated.
- satiated — satiated.
- satiates — to supply with anything to excess, so as to disgust or weary; surfeit.
- satirise — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- satirize — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- saturate — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- saucepot — a cooking pot having a handle on each side and a close-fitting lid, used especially for stewing and simmering.
- sauteing — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- sauterne — a semisweet white wine of California, commonly sold as a jug wine.
- savviest — experienced, knowledgable, and well-informed; shrewd (often used in combination): consumers who are savvy about prices; a tech-savvy entrepreneur.
- saxatile — living or growing on or among rocks.
- saxonite — any peridotite rock composed mainly of olivine and orthopyroxene
- 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