8-letter words containing c, e, a, s
- skyscape — a section or portion of the sky, usually extensive and often including part of the horizon, that may be seen from a single viewpoint.
- slipcase — a box for a book or set of books, open on one side so that the spine is visible.
- snatched — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- snatcher — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- sociable — inclined to associate with or be in the company of others.
- societal — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- socrates — 469?–399 b.c, Athenian philosopher.
- sonicate — a thing which has been subjected to sound waves
- sortance — suitableness
- soutache — a narrow braid, commonly of mohair, silk, or rayon, used for trimming.
- spacelab — a manned laboratory in space, developed by the European Space Agency, carried aboard an orbiting space shuttle.
- spaceman — an astronaut.
- spacewar — (games) A space-combat simulation game for the PDP-1 written in 1960-61 by Steve Russell, an employee at MIT. SPACEWAR was inspired by E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and jumping through hyperspace. MIT were wondering what to do with a new vector video display so Steve wrote the world's first video game. Steve now lives in California and still writes software for HC12 emulators. SPACEWAR aficionados formed the core of the early hacker culture at MIT. Nine years later, a descendant of the game motivated Ken Thompson to build, in his spare time on a scavenged PDP-7, the operating system that became Unix. Less than nine years after that, SPACEWAR was commercialised as one of the first video games; descendants are still feeping in video arcades everywhere.
- speciate — to form or develop into a new biological species
- specmark — (benchmark) The average of a set of floating-point and integer SPEC benchmark results. While the old average SPECmark89 has been popular with the industry and the press, SPEC has intentionally *not* defined an average "SPECmark92" over all CPU benchmarks of the 1992 suites (CINT92 and CFP92), for the following reasons: With 6 integer (CINT92) and 14 floating-point (CFP92) benchmarks, the average would be biased too much toward floating-point. Customers' workloads are different, some integer-only, some floating-point intensive, some mixed. Current processors have developed their strengths in a more diverse way (some more emphasizing integer performance, some more floating-point performance) than in 1989. Some SPECmark results are available here. See also SPECint92, SPECfp92, SPECrate_int92, SPECrate_fp92.
- spectate — to participate as a spectator, as at a horse race.
- spectral — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- specular — pertaining to or having the properties of a mirror.
- spiracle — a breathing hole; an opening by which a confined space has communication with the outer air; air hole.
- sprackle — to clamber or scramble upwards
- spruance — Raymond Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1886–1969, U.S. admiral.
- stancher — staunch2 .
- 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.
- sterical — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- stockade — Fortification. a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.
- stockage — supplies
- stonecat — a yellowish-brown, freshwater catfish, Noturus flavus, of the Mississippi River valley and Great Lakes, having poisonous pectoral spines.
- strachey — (Giles) Lytton [jahylz lit-n] /dʒaɪlz ˈlɪt n/ (Show IPA), 1880–1932, English biographer and literary critic.
- subacute — somewhat or moderately acute.
- subcaste — Sociology. an endogamous and hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation, economic position, etc., and having mores distinguishing it from other such groups. any rigid system of social distinctions.
- subcause — a factor less important than a cause
- subscale — a scale within a scale
- subspace — a smaller space within a main area that has been divided or subdivided: The jewelry shop occupies a subspace in the hotel's lobby.
- suitcase — a usually rectangular piece of luggage especially for carrying clothes while traveling.
- sunspace — sunroom.
- supercar — a very expensive fast or powerful car with a centrally located engine
- supermac — A general-purpose macro language, embeddable in existing languages as a run-time library.
- surcease — to cease from some action; desist.
- surfaced — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
- 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.
- sycamine — a tree mentioned in the New Testament, probably the black mulberry.
- 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.
- symantec — (company) Software manufacturer of utility and development applications for Windows and Macintosh platforms. Products include ACT!, Norton Utilities, Norton AntiVirus, Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh, Symantec Cafe.
- synechia — any adhesion of parts of the body, as of the iris to the cornea.
- syracuse — a city in central New York.
- szechuan — Sichuan.
- szechwan — Sichuan.
- tachisme — action painting (def 1).
- tachiste — an artist who practises tachisme
- tackless — a short, sharp-pointed nail, usually with a flat, broad head.