8-letter words containing a, s, c, n
- snacking — a small portion of food or drink or a light meal, especially one eaten between regular meals.
- snapback — a sudden rebound or recovery.
- 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).
- snowpack — the accumulation of winter snowfall, especially in mountain or upland regions.
- socinian — a follower of Faustus and Laelius Socinus who rejected a number of traditional Christian doctrines, as the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, and original sin, and who held that Christ was miraculously begotten and that salvation will be granted to those who adopt Christ's virtues.
- sonicate — a thing which has been subjected to sound waves
- sortance — suitableness
- spaceman — an astronaut.
- spacings — an act of someone or something that spaces.
- spinachy — characteristic of spinach
- spondaic — of or relating to a spondee.
- sprauncy — smart or showy in appearance
- spruance — Raymond Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1886–1969, U.S. admiral.
- stacking — a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.
- stancher — staunch2 .
- stanzaic — an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.
- stickman — croupier (def 1).
- stockman — U.S. and Australia. a person who raises livestock.
- stonecat — a yellowish-brown, freshwater catfish, Noturus flavus, of the Mississippi River valley and Great Lakes, having poisonous pectoral spines.
- sulindac — a yellow crystalline substance, C 2 0 H 1 7 FO 3 S, that is used as an analgesic, antipyretic, and anti-inflammatory in the treatment of certain rheumatic diseases.
- sultanic — the sovereign of an Islamic country.
- sunscald — injury to the leaves, bark, or underlying tissues of woody plants due to the combined effects of heat, humidity, and intense sunshine.
- 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.
- synalgic — referred pain.
- synaptic — Also called syndesis. Cell Biology. the pairing of homologous chromosomes, one from each parent, during early meiosis.
- synarchy — joint rule
- syncopal — Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
- syncytia — a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm that is not separated into cells.
- syndical — of or relating to a union of persons engaged in a particular trade.
- synechia — any adhesion of parts of the body, as of the iris to the cornea.
- szechuan — Sichuan.
- szechwan — Sichuan.
- tacksman — a leaseholder, esp a tenant in the Highlands who sublets
- tarascan — a member of an American Indian people of Michoacán state, in southwestern Mexico.
- transact — to carry on or conduct (business, negotiations, activities, etc.) to a conclusion or settlement. Synonyms: enact, conclude, settle, manage, negotiate.
- transect — to cut across; dissect transversely.
- tsunamic — an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption.
- tusculan — an ancient city of Latium, SE of Rome: Roman villas, especially that of Cicero.
- 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.
- unclassy — not classy; lacking in good taste or sense; crude: Always being late for appointments is unclassy.
- unscaled — noting armor having imbricated metal plates sewn to a flexible backing.
- unscared — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- unsocial — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.