8-letter words containing d, e, n, s
- secundum — according to
- secundus — (in prescriptions) second.
- sedation — the calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, especially by the administration of a drug.
- sederunt — a prolonged discussion or session for discussion.
- sediment — the matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs.
- sedition — incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.
- seedling — a plant or tree grown from a seed.
- seedness — the sowing of seeds
- seedsman — a sower of seed.
- seladang — the gaur.
- seldseen — seldom seen
- selenide — any compound in which bivalent selenium is combined with a positive element, as potassium selenide, K 2 Se, or with a group.
- seminude — naked or unclothed, as a person or the body.
- send for — to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.
- send off — a demonstration of good wishes for a person setting out on a trip, career, or other venture: They gave him a rousing send-off at the pier.
- send out — to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.
- send-off — a demonstration of good wishes for a person setting out on a trip, career, or other venture: They gave him a rousing send-off at the pier.
- sendable — to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.
- sequined — a small shining disk or spangle used for ornamentation, as on women's clothing and accessories or on theatrical costumes.
- 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.
- serendip — Arabic name of Sri Lanka.
- serranid — any of numerous percoid fishes of the family Serranidae, living chiefly in warm seas, including the sea basses and groupers.
- set down — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- sheading — any of the six subdivisions of the Isle of Man
- shedding — to pour forth (water or other liquid), as a fountain.
- shedhand — a worker in a sheepshearing shed
- sheridan — Philip Henry, 1831–88, Union general in the Civil War.
- shetland — Shetland Islands.
- shingled — a thin piece of wood, slate, metal, asbestos, or the like, usually oblong, laid in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and walls of buildings.
- shinnied — a simple variety of hockey, played with a ball, block of wood, or the like, and clubs curved at one end.
- sideband — the band of frequencies at the sides of the carrier frequency of a modulated signal.
- sidebone — ossification of the cartilages in the lateral portion of the foot of a horse, resulting in lameness.
- sideline — a line at the side of something.
- sideling — sidelong or sideways; obliquely.
- sidelong — directed to one side: a sidelong glance.
- sidenote — a note written in the margin of a page
- sidesman — a man elected to help the parish church warden
- sidespin — a spinning motion imparted to a ball that causes it to rotate in course about its vertical axis.
- sidewind — to move like a sidewinder.
- signaled — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
- silenced — absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
- sine die — without fixing a day for future action or meeting: The assembly adjourned sine die.
- sinified — to Sinicize.
- siphoned — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- skinhead — a baldheaded man.
- skipdent — an open-weave effect in fabric, produced by purposely omitting specific warp ends in the drawing-in process.
- sledding — a small vehicle consisting of a platform mounted on runners for use in traveling over snow or ice.
- sledging — the activity of travelling across snow on a sledge
- smidgeon — a very small amount: a smidgen of jam for your toast.
- snatched — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).