8-letter words containing a, s, t, r, e
- ratsbane — rat poison.
- readjust — to adjust again or anew; rearrange.
- realties — real property or real estate.
- rearmost — farthest in the rear; last.
- rearrest — to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant; take into custody: The police arrested the burglar.
- reascent — a further ascent
- reassert — to state with assurance, confidence, or force; state strongly or positively; affirm; aver: He asserted his innocence of the crime.
- reassist — to give support or aid to; help: Please assist him in moving the furniture.
- reassort — to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
- recusant — refusing to submit, comply, etc.
- red star — any star with a low surface temperature and a reddish color, as a red giant or a red dwarf.
- redstart — any of several small, Old World thrushes, usually with reddish-brown tails, especially Phoenicurus phoenicurus (European redstart)
- refasten — to fasten again
- refracts — to subject to refraction.
- regalist — a person who believes in or promotes regalism
- remaster — to make a new master tape or record from an old master tape, usually to improve the fidelity of an old recording.
- remnants — a remaining, usually small part, quantity, number, or the like.
- resalute — to salute or greet again
- resinata — a type of white wine from Greece
- resinate — to treat with resin, as by impregnation.
- resonant — resounding or echoing, as sounds: the resonant thundering of cannons being fired.
- resonate — to resound.
- rest day — a holiday; a day when people do not have to work
- restable — to put (horses, animals, etc) in a stable again
- restoral — restoration.
- restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
- rheostat — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
- roadster — an early automobile having an open body, a single seat for two or three persons, and a large trunk or a rumble seat.
- rosinate — a salt or acid occurring in resin
- rostrate — furnished with a rostrum.
- rosulate — forming a rosette or rosettes.
- rothesay — a town in the Strathclyde region, on Bute island, in SW Scotland: resort; ruins of 11th-century castle.
- ruckseat — a seat fixed to or forming part of a rucksack
- rustable — liable to rust
- sabatier — Paul [pawl] /pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1854–1941, French chemist: Nobel prize 1912.
- saboteur — a person who commits or practices sabotage.
- sabotier — a wearer of sabots
- sad tree — night jasmine (def 1).
- santarem — a city in N Brazil, on the Amazon River.
- santeria — (sometimes lowercase) a religion merging the worship of Yoruba deities with veneration of Roman Catholic saints: practiced in Cuba and spread to other parts of the Caribbean and to the U.S. by Cuban emigrés.
- sarcenet — a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
- sarraute — Nathalie [na-ta-lee] /na taˈli/ (Show IPA), (Nathalie Ilyanova Tcherniak) 1900–1999, French novelist, born in Russia.
- sarsenet — a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
- sather-k — (language) Karlsruhe Sather. A sublanguage of Sather used for introductory courses in object-oriented design and typesafe programming. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- satirise — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- satirize — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- saturate — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- sauterne — a semisweet white wine of California, commonly sold as a jug wine.
- scarcest — insufficient to satisfy the need or demand; not abundant: Meat and butter were scarce during the war.
- scariest — causing fright or alarm.