8-letter words containing d, s, n
- sandspur — an American wild grass
- sandusky — a port in N Ohio, on Lake Erie.
- sandwell — a unitary authority in central England, in West Midlands. Pop: 285 000 (2003 est). Area: 86 sq km (33 sq miles)
- sandwich — a town in E Kent, in SE England: one of the Cinque Ports.
- sandworm — any of several marine worms that live in sand.
- sandwort — any plant belonging to the genus Arenaria, of the pink family, having narrow leaves and clusters of usually white flowers, many of which grow in sandy soil.
- sandyish — somewhat sandy
- 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.
- saraband — a slow, stately Spanish dance, especially of the 17th and 18th centuries, in triple meter, derived from a vigorous castanet dance.
- sarandon — Susan Abigail. born 1946, US film actress: her films include Thelma and Louise (1991), Lorenzo's Oil (1992), The Client (1994), Dead Man Walking (1996), and Moonlight Mile (2002)
- 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).
- sardinia — 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).
- sardonic — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- sardonyx — a chalcedony that is used for cameos and has sard and chalcedony of another color, usually white, arranged in straight parallel bands.
- sarpedon — a Lycian prince, son of Zeus, killed by Patroclus in the Trojan War.
- sassanid — a member of a dynasty that ruled in Persia a.d. 226–651.
- satinpod — either of two European plants belonging to the genus Lunaria, of the mustard family, L. annua or L. rediviva, cultivated for their shiny flowers and large, round, flat, satiny pods.
- 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)
- scabland — rough, barren, volcanic topography with thin soils and little vegetation.
- scalding — to burn or affect painfully with or as if with hot liquid or steam.
- scaldino — an Italian earthen brazier
- 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.
- scandian — of or relating to Scandia.
- scandisk — (operating system, storage) An MS-DOS command to check for faults on a disk and provide a graphical representation the results. Scandisk was introduced with MS-DOS version 6 to replace CHKDSK.
- scandium — a rare, trivalent, metallic element obtained from thortveitite. Symbol: Sc; atomic weight: 44.956; atomic number: 21; specific gravity: 3.0.
- 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.
- scienced — learned or knowledgeable (about something)
- scincoid — of, relating to, or resembling a skink.
- scolding — a person who is constantly scolding, often with loud and abusive speech.
- scotland — a division of the United Kingdom in the N part of Great Britain. 30,412 sq. mi. (78,772 sq. km). Capital: Edinburgh.
- screened — a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- scudding — to run or move quickly or hurriedly.
- seahound — a dogfish
- 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.
- secodont — (of animals) having teeth with sharp cutting edges
- seconded — next after the first; being the ordinal number for two.
- secondee — a person who is seconded
- seconder — next after the first; being the ordinal number for two.
- secondly — in the second place; second.
- 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.