8-letter words containing d, e, a, s
- seasoned — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- seawards — Also, seawards. toward the sea: a storm moving seaward.
- sedately — calm, quiet, or composed; undisturbed by passion or excitement: a sedate party; a sedate horse.
- sedation — the calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, especially by the administration of a drug.
- sedative — tending to calm or soothe.
- sedecias — Zedekiah.
- seedcake — a sweet cake containing aromatic seeds, usually caraway.
- seedcase — a seed capsule; pericarp.
- seedhead — botany: cluster of seeds on a plant
- seedsman — a sower of seed.
- seladang — the gaur.
- selfward — in the direction of or toward oneself: a selfward-moving gesture.
- semiarid — characterized by very little annual rainfall, usually from 10 to 20 inches (25 to 50 cm): the struggle to raise vegetables in semiarid regions.
- semibald — partly bald
- semideaf — partly deaf
- semihard — partly hard; not completely hard
- sendable — to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.
- sepalody — the changing of other flower parts, such as petals, into sepals
- sepaloid — resembling a sepal.
- sephardi — a Jew of Spanish, Portuguese, or North African descent
- serenade — a complimentary performance of vocal or instrumental music in the open air at night, as by a lover under the window of his lady.
- serranid — any of numerous percoid fishes of the family Serranidae, living chiefly in warm seas, including the sea basses and groupers.
- serrated — Chiefly Biology. notched on the edge like a saw: a serrate leaf.
- sesamoid — shaped like a sesame seed, as certain small nodular bones and cartilages.
- setaside — the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
- shackled — a ring or other fastening, as of iron, for securing the wrist, ankle, etc.; fetter.
- shadiest — abounding in shade; shaded: shady paths.
- shadowed — of or relating to a shadow cabinet.
- shadower — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shadwell — Thomas, 1642?–92, English dramatist: poet laureate 1688–92.
- shambled — to walk or go awkwardly; shuffle.
- sheading — any of the six subdivisions of the Isle of Man
- sheathed — a case or covering for the blade of a sword, dagger, or the like.
- shedhand — a worker in a sheepshearing shed
- shedload — a very large amount or number
- sheppard — Jack. 1702–24, English criminal, whose daring escapes from prison were celebrated in many contemporary ballads and plays
- sheridan — Philip Henry, 1831–88, Union general in the Civil War.
- shetland — Shetland Islands.
- shithead — a stupid, inept, unlikable, or contemptible person.
- sidalcea — any plant of the mostly perennial N American genus Sidalcea, related to and resembling mallow, esp S. malvaeflora, grown for its spikes of lilac, pink, or red flowers: family Malvaceae
- side arm — a weapon, as a pistol or sword, carried at the side or in the belt.
- side-way — a byway.
- sideband — the band of frequencies at the sides of the carrier frequency of a modulated signal.
- sidehead — a heading or subhead run in the margin of a book or magazine.
- sideload — to transfer software, data, etc., from one local system or device to another, typically from one's computer to a mobile device.
- sidepath — a minor path
- siderate — to strike violently
- sidereal — determined by or from the stars: sidereal time.
- sideroad — (esp in Ontario) a road, usually north-south, going at right angles to concession roads
- sidesman — a man elected to help the parish church warden