8-letter words containing a, s, t, r, e
- sparklet — a small spark.
- spectral — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- splatter — an act or instance of splattering.
- sprattle — a struggle; fight.
- spreathe — to chap
- squatter — the act or fact of squatting.
- staggers — to walk, move, or stand unsteadily.
- staggery — tending to stagger
- stancher — staunch2 .
- star key — a push button on a telephone or other electronic device that is marked with an asterisk, often in the lower left-hand area.
- 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.
- stargaze — to gaze at or observe the stars.
- starkers — naked
- starkest — sheer, utter, downright, or complete: stark madness.
- starless — any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- starlike — of the shape of or like a star.
- starters — a person or thing that starts.
- startled — to disturb or agitate suddenly as by surprise or alarm.
- statured — of or having a stature of a certain kind (usually used in combination): the short-statured inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula.
- statures — the height of a human or animal body.
- staumrel — stupid; half-witted.
- stearate — a salt or ester of stearic acid.
- 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.
- steerage — a part or division of a ship, formerly the part containing the steering apparatus.
- stemware — glass or crystal vessels, especially for beverages and desserts, having rounded bowls mounted on footed stems.
- stenmark — Ingemar ("Silent Swede") born 1956, Swedish Alpine skier.
- 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.
- sternage — the stern or rear of a ship
- sternway — Nautical. the movement of a vessel backward, or stern foremost.
- 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
- strabane — a district of W Northern Ireland, in Co Tyrone. Pop: 38 565 (2003 est). Area: 862 sq km (333 sq miles)
- strachey — (Giles) Lytton [jahylz lit-n] /dʒaɪlz ˈlɪt n/ (Show IPA), 1880–1932, English biographer and literary critic.
- straddle — to walk, stand, or sit with the legs wide apart; stand or sit astride.
- straggle — to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
- 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.
- stranded — composed of a specified number or kind of strands (usually used in combination): a five-stranded rope.
- strander — a person who strands
- stranger — French L'Étranger. a novel (1942) by Albert Camus.
- strangle — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- strapped — needy; wanting: The company is rather strapped for funds.
- strapper — a person or thing that straps.
- strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
- stratose — formed in strata or layers
- stravage — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.