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8-letter words containing a, s, e, o, r

  • sectoral — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
  • selangor — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 3160 sq. mi. (8184 sq. km). Capital: Shah Alam.
  • senorita — a Spanish term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
  • sensoria — a part of the brain or the brain itself regarded as the seat of sensation.
  • seraglio — the part of a Muslim house or palace in which the wives and concubines are secluded; harem.
  • serajevo — Sarajevo.
  • shadower — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
  • sheraton — Thomas, 1751–1806, English cabinetmaker and furniture designer.
  • shoreman — a person who lives on the shore
  • shortage — a deficiency in quantity: a shortage of cash.
  • sideroad — (esp in Ontario) a road, usually north-south, going at right angles to concession roads
  • slalomer — a person who slaloms
  • sobranje — the national assembly of Bulgaria, consisting of a single chamber of elected deputies.
  • socrates — 469?–399 b.c, Athenian philosopher.
  • soeharto — 1921–2008, Indonesian army officer and political leader: president 1967–98.
  • soekarno — Achmed [ahk-med] /ˈɑk mɛd/ (Show IPA), 1901–1970, Indonesian statesman: president of the Republic of Indonesia 1945–67.
  • software — Computers. the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them. Compare hardware (def 5).
  • solander — a case for maps, plates, etc., made to resemble a book and having the front cover and fore edge hinged.
  • solarize — Photography. to reverse (an image) partially, as from negative to positive, by exposure to light during development.
  • solidare — an old coin
  • sorbable — able to absorb
  • soredial — pertaining to or resembling a soredium.
  • sorehead — a disgruntled or vindictive person, especially an unsportsmanlike loser: Don't be such a sorehead, they won fair and square.
  • sororate — subsequent or concurrent marriage with a wife's sister.
  • sortable — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
  • sortance — suitableness
  • soterial — relating to salvation
  • sowarree — an Indian mounted escort
  • sowbread — any of several species of cyclamen, especially Cyclamen hederifolium, a low-growing Old World plant having mottled leaves and pink or white flowers.
  • sporades — two groups of Greek islands in the Aegean: the Northern Sporades, lying northeast of Euboea, and the Southern Sporades, which include the Dodecanese and lie off the SW coast of Turkey
  • stonerag — a type of lichen, Parmela saxatilis, which produces a brown dye
  • storable — capable of being stored for considerable time without loss of freshness or usability.
  • storeman — a man employed to look after a storeroom
  • stratose — formed in strata or layers
  • streator — a city in N Illinois.
  • 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.
  • tea rose — any of several cultivated varieties of roses having a scent resembling that of tea.
  • tea-rose — any of several cultivated varieties of roses having a scent resembling that of tea.
  • testator — a person who makes a will.
  • 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.
  • to spare — more than is required
  • trappose — relating to traprock
  • unreason — inability or unwillingness to think or act rationally, reasonably, or sensibly; irrationality.
  • valorise — to provide for the maintaining of the value or price of (a commercial commodity) by a government's purchasing the commodity at the fixed price or by its making special loans to the producers.
  • vaporise — to cause to change into vapor.
  • varicose — abnormally or unusually enlarged or swollen: a varicose vein.
  • viatores — a wayfarer; traveler.
  • votaress — a woman who is a votary.
  • votaries — a person who is bound by solemn religious vows, as a monk or a nun.
  • war nose — the explosive forward section of a projectile, as of a torpedo or shell; warhead.
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