8-letter words containing a, i, r, t, n, s
- lunarist — a person who believes the moon influences weather
- luristan — a mountainous region in W Iran.
- martinis — Plural form of martini.
- migrants — Plural form of migrant.
- minarets — Plural form of minaret.
- mistrain — to train or guide incorrectly
- monastir — Bitola
- nartjies — Plural form of nartjie.
- naturism — a person who appreciates the beauty and benefits of nature.
- naturist — a person who appreciates the beauty and benefits of nature.
- neustria — the W part of the Frankish kingdom, corresponding roughly to N and NW France.
- nitrates — Plural form of nitrate.
- notaries — Plural form of notary.
- notarise — to certify (a document, contract, etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public.
- nuristan — a mountainous region in NE Afghanistan. 5000 sq. mi. (12,950 sq. km).
- orations — Plural form of oration.
- organist — a person who plays the organ.
- partisan — a shafted weapon of the 16th and 17th centuries, having as a head a long spear blade with a pair of curved lobes at the base.
- pertains — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- pinaster — a species of pyramid-shaped pine, Pinus pinaster, growing in southern Europe and having clustered needles.
- pristane — a colourless combustible liquid
- pristina — the capital city of Kosovo, S Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro: site of 1389 battle against Turks and center of modern Kosovar (Albanian) separatist movement.
- puritans — a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
- radiants — Plural form of radiant.
- rasputin — Grigori Efimovich [gri-gawr-ee i-fee-muh-vich;; Russian gryi-gaw-ryee yi-fyee-muh-vyich] /grɪˈgɔr i ɪˈfi mə vɪtʃ;; Russian gryɪˈgɔ ryi yɪˈfyi mə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1916, Siberian peasant monk who was very influential at the court of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra.
- ratisbon — Regensburg.
- resinata — a type of white wine from Greece
- resinate — to treat with resin, as by impregnation.
- restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
- roasting — roasted: roast beef.
- romanist — Disparaging. a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
- rosinate — a salt or acid occurring in resin
- sanitary — of or relating to health or the conditions affecting health, especially with reference to cleanliness, precautions against disease, etc.
- sanscrit — Sanskrit
- sanskrit — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
- 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.
- santorin — Thera.
- saturnic — having or affected with lead-poisoning
- seatrain — a ship for the transportation of loaded railroad cars.
- 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.
- skiatron — a cathode-ray tube used in radar
- smarting — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- spartina — a ricegrass which grows in salt marshes
- starling — a pointed cluster of pilings for protecting a bridge pier from drifting ice, debris, etc.
- starring — any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- 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.
- 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.