8-letter words containing a, r, t, s, n
- serenata — a form of secular cantata, often of a dramatic or imaginative character.
- serenate — a form of secular cantata, often of a dramatic or imaginative character.
- sergeant — Ancient Eboracum. a city in North Yorkshire, in NE England, on the Ouse: the capital of Roman Britain; cathedral.
- serjeant — a noncommissioned army officer of a rank above that of corporal.
- sheraton — Thomas, 1751–1806, English cabinetmaker and furniture designer.
- skiatron — a cathode-ray tube used in radar
- slattern — a slovenly, untidy woman or girl.
- smarting — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- snatcher — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- snot rag — a handkerchief
- snot-rag — a handkerchief.
- sonorant — a voiced sound that is less sonorous than a vowel but more sonorous than a stop or fricative and that may occur as either a sonant or a consonant, as (l, r, m, n, y, w).
- sortance — suitableness
- spartina — a ricegrass which grows in salt marshes
- staghorn — a piece of a stag's antler, especially when used to form objects, decorations, or the like.
- stancher — staunch2 .
- standard — something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.
- stanford — (Amasa) Leland, 1824–93, U.S. railroad developer, politician, and philanthropist: governor of California 1861–63; senator 1885–93.
- stannary — a tin-mining region or district.
- 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
- start on — begin attacking
- 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.
- stenmark — Ingemar ("Silent Swede") born 1956, Swedish Alpine skier.
- sternage — the stern or rear of a ship
- sternway — Nautical. the movement of a vessel backward, or stern foremost.
- 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.
- stonerag — a type of lichen, Parmela saxatilis, which produces a brown dye
- storeman — a man employed to look after a storeroom
- strabane — a district of W Northern Ireland, in Co Tyrone. Pop: 38 565 (2003 est). Area: 862 sq km (333 sq miles)
- strafing — an act or instance of strafing
- 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.
- strand88 — A commercial implementation of Strand from Strand Software Technologies Ltd., UK and Strand Software, Beaverton, OR, USA. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- 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.
- stratton — Charles Sherwood ("General Tom Thumb") 1838–83, U.S. midget who performed in the circus of P. T. Barnum.
- strawman — a mass of straw formed to resemble a man, as for a doll or scarecrow.
- strawson — Sir Peter (Frederick). 1919–2006, British philosopher. His early work deals with the relationship between language and logic, his later work with metaphysics. His books include The Bounds of Sense (1966) and Freedom and Resentment (1974)
- straying — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
- strontia — Also called strontium oxide. a white or grayish-white, amorphous powder, SrO, resembling lime in its general character: used chiefly in the manufacture of strontium salts.
- stunkard — sulky
- sumatran — a large island in the W part of Indonesia. 164,147 sq. mi. (425,141 sq. km).
- sun star — any starfish of the genus Solaster, inhabiting cold and temperate waters off both U.S. coasts.