8-letter words containing a, s, c, r
- spectral — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- specular — pertaining to or having the properties of a mirror.
- spicular — relating to or characteristic of spicula
- spiracle — a breathing hole; an opening by which a confined space has communication with the outer air; air hole.
- sporadic — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sprackle — to clamber or scramble upwards
- sprauncy — smart or showy in appearance
- spruance — Raymond Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1886–1969, U.S. admiral.
- sriracha — a hot condiment sauce made from red chilis, vinegar, sugar, garlic, and salt, used especially in Vietnamese and Thai cuisine.
- stancher — staunch2 .
- star cut — a gem cut having a hexagonal table surrounded by six facets in the form of equilateral triangles.
- starched — a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C 6 H 1 0 O 5) n , occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods.
- sterical — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- strachey — (Giles) Lytton [jahylz lit-n] /dʒaɪlz ˈlɪt n/ (Show IPA), 1880–1932, English biographer and literary critic.
- straicht — straight
- straucht — straight
- subacrid — slightly acrid
- subtract — to withdraw or take away, as a part from a whole.
- subvicar — an assistant to a vicar; a subordinate vicar
- supercar — a very expensive fast or powerful car with a centrally located engine
- supermac — A general-purpose macro language, embeddable in existing languages as a run-time library.
- surcease — to cease from some action; desist.
- surfaced — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
- surgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- suricate — a small, burrowing South African carnivore, Suricata suricatta, of a grayish color with dark bands across the back, related to the mongooses and having social behavior similar to that of prairie dogs.
- sycamore — Also called buttonwood. any of several North American plane trees, especially Platanus occidentalis, having shallowly lobed ovate leaves, globular seed heads, and wood valued as timber.
- synarchy — joint rule
- syracuse — a city in central New York.
- tarascan — a member of an American Indian people of Michoacán state, in southwestern Mexico.
- terraces — unroofed tiers around a football pitch on which the spectators stand
- thoraces — Anatomy. the part of the trunk in humans and higher vertebrates between the neck and the abdomen, containing the cavity, enclosed by the ribs, sternum, and certain vertebrae, in which the heart, lungs, etc., are situated; chest.
- trackies — loose-fitting trousers with elasticated cuffs, designed to be worn as part of a tracksuit
- 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.
- triassic — noting or pertaining to a period of the Mesozoic Era, occurring from 230 to 190 million years ago and characterized by the advent of dinosaurs and coniferous forests.
- tribasic — (of an acid) having three atoms of hydrogen replaceable by basic atoms or groups.
- unscared — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- unstarch — to free from stiffness
- varicose — abnormally or unusually enlarged or swollen: a varicose vein.
- vascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- vicaress — a rank of nun
- viscaria — any plant of the Eurasian perennial genus Viscaria, closely related to genus Lychnis, in which it is sometimes included: low-growing, with pink, white, or purple flowers: family Carophyllaceae
- visceral — of or relating to the viscera.
- warlocks — Plural form of warlock.
- watchers — Plural form of watcher.
- waycross — a city in SE Georgia.
- wiseacre — a person who possesses or affects to possess great wisdom.
- wormcast — A small pile of sand or soil, the end product of the breakdown of organic matter by an earthworm.
- xpercase — A structure diagram editor for developing, re-engineering, maintaining and documenting programs, developed by Siemens AG, Austria. It runs under Microsoft Windows. E-Mail: <[email protected]>.
- yachters — Plural form of yachter.