8-letter words containing a, s, r, i
- ski-rack — a piece of equipment for the roof a car, which holds skis
- ski-wear — clothes that are intended for skiing
- skiagram — a picture made by outlining and shading a subject's shadow.
- skiatron — a cathode-ray tube used in radar
- skincare — use of toiletries on the skin
- skip car — an open car for charging a blast furnace.
- slaister — a sloppy mess
- sliprail — a rail in a fence that can be slipped out of place to make an opening
- slipware — pottery decorated with slip.
- smarmily — excessively or unctuously flattering, ingratiating, servile, etc.: the emcee with the smarmy welcome.
- smarting — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- smartish — rather smart; fairly intelligent or quick-witted: smartish answers on a quiz.
- snailery — a place where snails are bred
- snarkily — in an irritable or snarky manner
- socratic — of or relating to Socrates or his philosophy, followers, etc., or to the Socratic method.
- solarism — the interpretation of myths by reference to the sun, especially such interpretation carried to an extreme.
- solarium — a glass-enclosed room, porch, or the like, exposed to the sun's rays, as at a seaside hotel or for convalescents in a hospital.
- solarize — Photography. to reverse (an image) partially, as from negative to positive, by exposure to light during development.
- solidare — an old coin
- solidary — characterized by or involving community of responsibilities and interests.
- solitary — alone; without companions; unattended: a solitary passer-by.
- soralium — (in a lichen) a group of soredia.
- sorbaria — a deciduous Asian shrub
- soredial — pertaining to or resembling a soredium.
- soterial — relating to salvation
- spagyric — pertaining to or resembling alchemy; alchemic.
- spaniard — a native or inhabitant of Spain.
- spanrail — a rail connecting two legs of furniture; stretcher.
- sparaxis — any plant of the cormous S African genus Sparaxis, esp S. grandiflora and S. tricolor, grown for their dainty spikes of star-shaped purple, red, or orange flowers: family Iridaceae
- sparerib — a cut of pork ribs with most of the meat trimmed off
- sparkily — in a sparky manner
- sparlike — resembling a spar
- sparling — the European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus.
- sparring — a motion of sparring.
- sparsity — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- spartina — a ricegrass which grows in salt marshes
- spearing — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
- sphairee — a game resembling tennis played with wooden bats and a perforated plastic ball, devised by F. A. Beck in 1961
- spicular — relating to or characteristic of spicula
- spingarn — Joel Elias, 1875–1939, U.S. literary critic, publisher, and editor.
- spiracle — a breathing hole; an opening by which a confined space has communication with the outer air; air hole.
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- spirilla — any of several spirally twisted, aerobic bacteria of the genus Spirillum, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans.
- sporadic — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sprained — (of a joint) having been injured by a sudden twisting or wrenching of its ligaments
- springal — a young man
- squailer — a stick that has been specially weighted to use as a missile for throwing at something
- squarial — a type of square dish formerly produced by BSB for receiving satellite television. Previous satellite dishes had been round. The Squarial ceased to be produced in 1990.
- squarish — approximately square.
- squirage — squires considered as a whole group