8-letter words containing a, s, r, i
- srinagar — Also, Cashmere. a former princely state in SW Asia, adjacent to India, Pakistan, Sinkiang, and Tibet: sovereignty in dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947.
- sriracha — a hot condiment sauce made from red chilis, vinegar, sugar, garlic, and salt, used especially in Vietnamese and Thai cuisine.
- stairway — a passageway from one level, as of a building, to another by a series of stairs; staircase.
- starfish — any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea, having the body radially arranged, usually in the form of a star, with five or more rays or arms radiating from a central disk; asteroid.
- starlike — of the shape of or like a star.
- starling — a pointed cluster of pilings for protecting a bridge pier from drifting ice, debris, etc.
- starlisp — *LISP
- starring — any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- starship — a spaceship designed for intergalactic travel.
- start in — to undertake (something or doing something); commence or begin
- 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.
- sterical — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- sterigma — a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- 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.
- stipular — of or like a stipule or stipules
- stradiot — a soldier, usually of Greek or Albanian origin, who fought on horseback for the Venetian republic in the 15th and 16th centuries
- strafing — an act or instance of strafing
- straicht — straight
- straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- 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.
- straitly — Often, straits. (used with a singular verb) a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.
- stratify — to form or place in strata or layers.
- stravaig — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- 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.
- striated — striated.
- striatum — a striped mass of white and grey matter in the brain which controls movement and balance
- strigate — (of animals) streaked with different colours
- strobila — the body of a tapeworm exclusive of the head and neck region. Compare scolex.
- 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.
- subacrid — slightly acrid
- subsizar — formerly, an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge who did not have to pay tuition fees but who instead helped in the kitchen or household of their college
- suburbia — suburbs collectively.
- subvicar — an assistant to a vicar; a subordinate vicar
- subviral — of or relating to any macromolecule smaller in size or possessing a lesser degree of organization than a comparable intact viral particle.
- sudarium — (in ancient Rome) a cloth, usually of linen, for wiping the face; handkerchief.
- sugaring — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- sumerian — of or relating to Sumer, its people, or their language.
- 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.
- suriname — a republic on the NE coast of South America: formerly a territory of the Netherlands; gained independence 1975. 60,230 sq. mi. (155,995 sq. km). Capital: Paramaribo.
- survival — the act or fact of surviving, especially under adverse or unusual circumstances.
- sutorial — relating to sewing or cobbling
- suzerain — a sovereign or a state exercising political control over a dependent state.
- svizzera — Italian name of Switzerland.
- swanndri — an all-weather heavy woollen shirt
- swear in — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.