8-letter words containing d, e, a, s
- sacheted — contained in a sachet
- sacredly — devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated.
- sad case — a person considered to be ludicrously contemptible or pathetic
- sad tree — night jasmine (def 1).
- sad-eyed — having eyes with a sad expression
- saddlery — saddles, harnesses, and other equipment for horses.
- sadducee — a member of a Palestinian sect, consisting mainly of priests and aristocrats, that flourished from the 1st century b.c. to the 1st century a.d. and differed from the Pharisees chiefly in its literal interpretation of the Bible, rejection of oral laws and traditions, and denial of an afterlife and the coming of the Messiah.
- salaamed — a salutation meaning “peace,” used especially in Islamic countries.
- salaried — receiving a salary: a salaried employee.
- saleyard — an area with pens for holding animals before auction
- salified — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
- same-day — carried out or taking place on the same day as a preliminary action
- sand eel — sand lance.
- sandable — the more or less fine debris of rocks, consisting of small, loose grains, often of quartz.
- sandaled — a shoe consisting of a sole of leather or other material fastened to the foot by thongs or straps.
- sandheap — a heap of sand
- sandiver — a whitish, saline scum formed on the surface of molten glass.
- sandless — having no sand
- sandpeep — any of various small sandpipers
- sandpile — a pile of sand, esp one for children to play on
- sandshoe — a light tennis shoe; sneaker.
- sandwell — a unitary authority in central England, in West Midlands. Pop: 285 000 (2003 est). Area: 86 sq km (33 sq miles)
- sanidine — a glassy, often transparent variety of orthoclase in which sodium may replace as much as 50 percent of the potassium: forms phenocrysts in some igneous rocks.
- sardegna — a large island in the Mediterranean, W of Italy: with small nearby islands it comprises a department of Italy. 9301 sq. mi. (24,090 sq. km).
- sardelle — a small fish, Clupea or Sardinella aurita, similar to the sardine
- sarpedon — a Lycian prince, son of Zeus, killed by Patroclus in the Trojan War.
- sashayed — to glide, move, or proceed easily or nonchalantly: She just sashayed in as if she owned the place.
- satiated — satiated.
- saunders — Dame Cicely. 1918–2005, British philanthropist: founded St Christopher's Hospice in 1967 for the care of the terminally ill, upon which the modern hospice movement is modelled. Her books include Living with Dying (1983)
- savegard — safe conduct, protection
- saw edge — the serrated edge of a saw
- sawblade — the blade of a saw
- scan-edf — (storage, algorithm) A variation of the Scan disk aceess algorithm for use in a real-time environment where, in general, requests are served according to Earliest Deadline First. If two requests share the same deadline, they may be reorganised according to Scan. A typical example is a video server that retrieves video data from a hard disk. The playback of a video impose tight real-time constraints but if the server retrieves data once every second for each video channel, Scan-EDF can be applied, reducing the seek overhead.
- scandent — climbing, as a plant.
- schiedam — a city in SW Netherlands.
- sciaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Sciaenidae, a family of carnivorous fishes that produce a loud sound by snapping the muscles attached to their air bladder, comprising the croakers and drums.
- scorepad — a pad whose sheets are printed with headings, vertical or horizontal lines, symbols, or the like, to facilitate the recording of scores in a game, as bowling or bridge.
- scragged — a lean or scrawny person or animal.
- scrapped — a fight or quarrel: She got into a scrap with her in-laws.
- scrawled — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- screamed — to utter a loud, sharp, piercing cry.
- sea bird — a bird frequenting the sea or coast.
- sea duck — any of various diving ducks, as the scaups, goldeneyes, scoters, and eiders, found principally on seas.
- sea lord — (in Britain) either of the two serving naval officers (First and Second Sea Lords) who sit on the admiralty board of the Ministry of Defence
- sea-maid — a mermaid.
- seaboard — the line where land and sea meet.
- seadrome — a floating airdrome serving as an intermediate or emergency landing place for aircraft flying over water.
- seahound — a dogfish
- seal dog — an iron hook used for dragging seal carcasses over the ice.
- searched — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.