8-letter words containing a, i, r, s, t
- sastrugi — Usually, sastrugi. ridges of snow formed on a snowfield by the action of the wind.
- satirise — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- satirist — a writer of satires.
- satirize — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- saturnic — having or affected with lead-poisoning
- satyrisk — a small satyr
- scarcity — insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth.
- scariest — causing fright or alarm.
- scimitar — a curved, single-edged sword of Asian, especially Eastern origin.
- sea-girt — surrounded by the sea.
- seatrain — a ship for the transportation of loaded railroad cars.
- selictar — the sword-bearer of a chieftain
- senorita — a Spanish term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- septaria — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- seriatim — in a series; one after another in regular order
- sericate — sericeous; silky.
- serratia — a genus of rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria that are saprophytic on decaying plant or animal materials.
- siderate — to strike violently
- sitkamer — a sitting room; lounge
- sitzmark — a sunken area in the snow marking a backward fall of a skier.
- skiatron — a cathode-ray tube used in radar
- slaister — a sloppy mess
- smarting — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- smartish — rather smart; fairly intelligent or quick-witted: smartish answers on a quiz.
- socratic — of or relating to Socrates or his philosophy, followers, etc., or to the Socratic method.
- solitary — alone; without companions; unattended: a solitary passer-by.
- soterial — relating to salvation
- sparsity — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- spartina — a ricegrass which grows in salt marshes
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- stairway — a passageway from one level, as of a building, to another by a series of stairs; staircase.
- starfish — any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea, having the body radially arranged, usually in the form of a star, with five or more rays or arms radiating from a central disk; asteroid.
- starlike — of the shape of or like a star.
- starling — a pointed cluster of pilings for protecting a bridge pier from drifting ice, debris, etc.
- starlisp — *LISP
- starring — any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- starship — a spaceship designed for intergalactic travel.
- start in — to undertake (something or doing something); commence or begin
- starving — very hungry
- stearine — Chemistry. any of the three glyceryl esters of stearic acid, especially C 3 H 5 (C 1 8 H 3 5 O 2) 3 , a soft, white, odorless solid found in many natural fats.
- sterical — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- sterigma — a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- stingray — any of the rays, especially of the family Dasyatidae, having a long, flexible tail armed near the base with a strong, serrated bony spine with which they can inflict painful wounds.
- stinkard — a despicable person; stinker.
- stipular — of or like a stipule or stipules
- stradiot — a soldier, usually of Greek or Albanian origin, who fought on horseback for the Venetian republic in the 15th and 16th centuries
- strafing — an act or instance of strafing
- straicht — straight
- straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- strained — affected or produced by effort; not natural or spontaneous; forced: strained hospitality.