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8-letter words containing d, s, n

  • 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.
  • shadchan — shadkhan.
  • shadings — a slight variation or difference of color, character, etc.
  • shadkhan — a person who arranges Jewish marriages; matchmaker.
  • shandong — a maritime province in E China. 59,189 sq. mi. (153,299 sq. km). Capital: Jinan.
  • shardana — a member of an ancient people of the eastern Mediterranean who served as mercenaries in the Egyptian army and may have settled in Sardinia and Sicily.
  • 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
  • sheridanPhilip Henry, 1831–88, Union general in the Civil War.
  • shetland — Shetland Islands.
  • shin pad — A shin pad is a thick piece of material that you wear inside your socks to protect the lower part of your leg when you are playing a game such as football or rugby.
  • 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.
  • showdown — the laying down of one's cards, face upward, in a card game, especially poker.
  • shutdown — a shutting down, as of a factory, school, or machine; a termination or suspension of operations, services, or business activity: a partial government shutdown; an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor.
  • sialidan — relating to alderflies
  • 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.
  • sidonian — a city of ancient Phoenicia: site of modern Saida.
  • 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.
  • sinusoid — a curve described by the equation y = a sin x, the ordinate being proportional to the sine of the abscissa.
  • 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.
  • sismondi — Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de [zhahn sharl ley-aw-nar see-mawnd duh] /ʒɑ̃ ʃarl leɪ ɔˈnar siˈmɔ̃d də/ (Show IPA), 1773–1842, Swiss historian and economist.
  • sit down — done or accomplished while sitting down: sit-down meetings between the two party leaders.
  • sit-down — done or accomplished while sitting down: sit-down meetings between the two party leaders.
  • sjælland — Zealand
  • skid fin — an upright projection or fin, positioned from leading edge to trailing edge in the center of the upper wing of some early airplanes and used to retard skidding.
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