8-letter words containing a, n, s, e
- storeman — a man employed to look after a storeroom
- stovaine — a drug used for anaesthetic purposes and as a cocaine substitute
- strabane — a district of W Northern Ireland, in Co Tyrone. Pop: 38 565 (2003 est). Area: 862 sq km (333 sq miles)
- strained — affected or produced by effort; not natural or spontaneous; forced: strained hospitality.
- strainer — a person or thing that strains.
- straiten — to put into difficulties, especially financial ones: His obligations had straitened him.
- stranded — composed of a specified number or kind of strands (usually used in combination): a five-stranded rope.
- strander — a person who strands
- stranger — French L'Étranger. a novel (1942) by Albert Camus.
- strangle — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- subagent — a person whose duties as an agent are delegated to him or her by another agent.
- subpanel — a panel that is part of a larger panel
- subpoena — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- subrange — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
- sudanese — a native or inhabitant of Sudan.
- suivante — a lady's maid or companion, particularly in 17th century France, who was elevated among other servants and served as a confidante and particular companion for her mistress
- suleiman — ("the Magnificent") 1495?–1566, sultan of the Ottoman Empire 1520–66.
- sumerian — of or relating to Sumer, its people, or their language.
- sun bear — a small bear, Helarctos malayanus, of tropical forests in S and SE Asia, having a black coat and a yellowish snout and feeding mostly on honey and insects
- sun gear — (in an epicyclic train) the central gear around which the planet gears revolve.
- sunbaked — baked by exposure to the sun, as bricks.
- sunbathe — to take a sunbath.
- sunbreak — a projection from the side of a building for intercepting part of the sunlight falling upon the adjacent surface.
- sunshade — something used as a protection from the rays of the sun, as an awning or a parasol.
- sunspace — sunroom.
- superfan — a very or extremely devoted fan
- superman — a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- supernal — being in or belonging to the heaven of divine beings; heavenly, celestial, or divine.
- supinate — to turn to a supine position; rotate (the hand or foot) so that the palm or sole is upward.
- suriname — a republic on the NE coast of South America: formerly a territory of the Netherlands; gained independence 1975. 60,230 sq. mi. (155,995 sq. km). Capital: Paramaribo.
- surnames — the name that a person has in common with other family members, as distinguished from a Christian name or given name; family name.
- suwannee — a river in SE Georgia and N Florida, flowing SW to the Gulf of Mexico. 240 miles (386 km) long.
- suzerain — a sovereign or a state exercising political control over a dependent state.
- svengali — a person who completely dominates another, usually with selfish or sinister motives.
- svetlana — a female given name.
- swamphen — any of several large Old World gallinules varying from purple to white, all possibly belonging to the single species Porphyrio porphyrio.
- swanherd — a person who tends swans.
- swannery — a place where swans are raised.
- swear in — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
- sweating — the act or process of sweating
- sweetman — (in the Caribbean) a man kept by a woman
- sycamine — a tree mentioned in the New Testament, probably the black mulberry.
- sylvaner — a white grape grown in the Alsace region of France and in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.
- 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.
- synaphea — a continuity of rhythm throughout a poem
- synapses — a region where nerve impulses are transmitted and received, encompassing the axon terminal of a neuron that releases neurotransmitters in response to an impulse, an extremely small gap across which the neurotransmitters travel, and the adjacent membrane of an axon, dendrite, or muscle or gland cell with the appropriate receptor molecules for picking up the neurotransmitters.
- synechia — any adhesion of parts of the body, as of the iris to the cornea.
- syntaxes — Linguistics. the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language. the study of the patterns of formation of sentences and phrases from words. the rules or patterns so studied: English syntax. a presentation of these: a syntax of English. an instance of these: the syntax of a sentence.
- synthase — an enzyme that catalyses a process of synthesis
- szechuan — Sichuan.