8-letter words containing a, n, s, e
- sarsenet — a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
- saucepan — a metal container of moderate depth, usually having a long handle and sometimes a cover, for stewing, boiling, etc.
- saunders — Dame Cicely. 1918–2005, British philanthropist: founded St Christopher's Hospice in 1967 for the care of the terminally ill, upon which the modern hospice movement is modelled. Her books include Living with Dying (1983)
- 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.
- sawbones — a surgeon or physician.
- saxonite — any peridotite rock composed mainly of olivine and orthopyroxene
- say when — to state when an action is to be stopped or begun, as when someone is pouring a drink
- 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.
- sea king — one of the piratical Scandinavian chiefs who ravaged the coasts of medieval Europe.
- sea lane — a standard navigational route for ships traversing an ocean or sea.
- sea lion — any of several large eared seals, as Eumetopias jubatus (Steller's sea lion) of the northern Pacific, and Zalophus californicus (California sea lion) of the Pacific coast of North America.
- sea pink — thrift (def 3).
- sea-born — born in or of the sea, as naiads.
- sea-lion — any of several large eared seals, as Eumetopias jubatus (Steller's sea lion) of the northern Pacific, and Zalophus californicus (California sea lion) of the Pacific coast of North America.
- seaborne — transported by ship over the sea.
- seacunny — a steersman or quartermaster in a ship manned by lascars
- seafront — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- seagoing — designed or fit for going to sea, as a vessel.
- seahenge — a Bronze Age timber circle discovered off the coast of Norfolk in E England. Dating from 2050 bc, it is thought to have been used as a ceremonial site
- seahound — a dogfish
- sealskin — the skin of a seal.
- seamount — a submarine mountain rising several hundred fathoms above the floor of the sea but having its summit well below the surface of the water.
- seaplane — an airplane provided with floats for taking off from or landing on water.
- searness — the state of being withered or dry
- seasnail — any of several snailfishes of the genus Liparis, of the North Atlantic.
- seasonal — pertaining to, dependent on, or accompanying the seasons of the year or some particular season; periodical: seasonal work.
- seasoned — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- seatrain — a ship for the transportation of loaded railroad cars.
- seawoman — a woman sailor or a woman who works on a ship or in the navy
- sedation — the calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, especially by the administration of a drug.
- seedsman — a sower of seed.
- segreant — (of a griffin) rampant.
- seladang — the gaur.
- selangor — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 3160 sq. mi. (8184 sq. km). Capital: Shah Alam.
- selenate — a salt or ester of selenic acid.
- selenian — of the moon; lunar