8-letter words containing a, n, c, e, s
- salience — the state or condition of being salient.
- saliency — salience.
- sancerre — a dry white wine from the Loire valley region of France.
- sapience — having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment.
- sapiency — having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment.
- sarcenet — a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
- sarcinae — any of several spherical, saprophytic bacteria of the genus Sarcina, having a cuboidal cell arrangement.
- saucepan — a metal container of moderate depth, usually having a long handle and sometimes a cover, for stewing, boiling, etc.
- scalenus — any of three muscles on each side of the neck, the action of which raises the first and second ribs in respiration and assists in bending the neck to one side.
- scalepan — scale2 (def 2).
- scan-edf — (storage, algorithm) A variation of the Scan disk aceess algorithm for use in a real-time environment where, in general, requests are served according to Earliest Deadline First. If two requests share the same deadline, they may be reorganised according to Scan. A typical example is a video server that retrieves video data from a hard disk. The playback of a video impose tight real-time constraints but if the server retrieves data once every second for each video channel, Scan-EDF can be applied, reducing the seek overhead.
- scandent — climbing, as a plant.
- scantest — barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate: to do scant justice.
- scanties — women's underwear
- scavenge — to take or gather (something usable) from discarded material.
- scenario — an outline of the plot of a dramatic work, giving particulars as to the scenes, characters, situations, etc.
- scenical — of or relating to natural scenery.
- schantze — a pile of stones heaped to shelter soldiers from gunfire
- schnabel — Artur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1882–1951, Austrian pianist.
- schwaben — German name of Swabia.
- sciaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Sciaenidae, a family of carnivorous fishes that produce a loud sound by snapping the muscles attached to their air bladder, comprising the croakers and drums.
- scrannel — thin or slight.
- seacunny — a steersman or quartermaster in a ship manned by lascars
- semantic — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semuncia — a bronze coin produced during the period of the Roman Republic, weighing half an ounce, and equivalent in value to a twenty-fourth of an as at the time
- shechina — the radiance in which God's immanent presence in the midst of his people, esp in the Temple, is visibly manifested
- skeechan — a beer of treacle and malt liquor
- skincare — use of toiletries on the skin
- 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).
- sonicate — a thing which has been subjected to sound waves
- sortance — suitableness
- spaceman — an astronaut.
- spruance — Raymond Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1886–1969, U.S. admiral.
- stancher — staunch2 .
- stonecat — a yellowish-brown, freshwater catfish, Noturus flavus, of the Mississippi River valley and Great Lakes, having poisonous pectoral spines.
- sunspace — sunroom.
- sycamine — a tree mentioned in the New Testament, probably the black mulberry.
- symantec — (company) Software manufacturer of utility and development applications for Windows and Macintosh platforms. Products include ACT!, Norton Utilities, Norton AntiVirus, Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh, Symantec Cafe.
- synechia — any adhesion of parts of the body, as of the iris to the cornea.
- szechuan — Sichuan.
- szechwan — Sichuan.
- transect — to cut across; dissect transversely.
- uncashed — money in the form of coins or banknotes, especially that issued by a government.
- uncasked — removed from a cask; brought out of a cask
- uncaused — not resulting from some antecedent cause.
- unceased — to stop; discontinue: Not all medieval beliefs have ceased to exist.
- unchaste — not chaste; not virtuous; not pure: an unchaste woman.
- unscaled — noting armor having imbricated metal plates sewn to a flexible backing.
- unscared — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.