8-letter words containing d, s, n
- skidding — a plank, bar, log, or the like, especially one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along.
- skinfood — cosmetic cream for the skin
- 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
- slimdown — instance of an organization cutting staff
- slobland — an area of muddy or alluvial ground
- slowdown — a slowing down or delay in progress, action, etc.
- sludging — intravascular slowing or clumping of red blood cells.
- smidgeon — a very small amount: a smidgen of jam for your toast.
- smilodon — any of several saber-toothed cats of the extinct genus Smilodon, that ranged from California through most of South America during the Pleistocene Epoch and had upper canine teeth more than 6 inches (15 cm) long.
- smudging — a dirty mark or smear.
- snatched — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- sniveled — to weep or cry with sniffling.
- snow day — a day on which public schools or other institutions are closed due to heavy snow.
- snowbird — junco.
- snowdome — a leisure centre with facilities for skiing, skating, etc
- snowdrop — any of several early-blooming bulbous plants belonging to the genus Galanthus, of the amaryllis family, native to Eurasia, especially G. nivalis, having drooping white flowers with green markings.
- snowland — an area that is covered by snow
- snowmold — a fungus disease of grasses and grains, appearing in lawns as gray patches near the edge of melting snow
- snowshed — a structure, as over an extent of railroad track on a mountainside, for protection against snow.
- soapland — a Japanese bathhouse and brothel
- sogdiana — a province of the ancient Persian Empire between the Oxus and Jaxartes rivers: now in Uzbekistan. Capital: Samarkand.
- solander — a case for maps, plates, etc., made to resemble a book and having the front cover and fore edge hinged.
- solenoid — Electricity. an electric conductor wound as a helix with small pitch, or as two or more coaxial helices, so that current through the conductor establishes a magnetic field within the conductor.
- sondheim — Stephen (Joshua) born 1930, U.S. composer and lyricist.
- songbird — a bird that sings.
- soundbox — a chamber in a musical instrument, as the body of a violin, for increasing the sonority of its tone.
- soundest — free from injury, damage, defect, disease, etc.; in good condition; healthy; robust: a sound heart; a sound mind.
- sounding — emitting or producing a sound or sounds.
- soundman — a sound recorder in a television crew
- sourdine — mute (def 10).
- spademan — a man who works with spade
- spadroon — a type of sword
- spaldeen — a smooth, pink rubber ball used in playing catch, stickball, etc.
- spalding — Albert, 1888–1953, U.S. violinist.
- spandrel — Architecture. an area between the extradoses of two adjoining arches, or between the extrados of an arch and a perpendicular through the extrados at the springing line.
- spangled — Something that is spangled is covered with small shiny objects.
- spaniard — a native or inhabitant of Spain.
- spavined — suffering from or affected with spavin.
- speeding — rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity: the speed of light; the speed of sound.
- spendall — a spendthrift
- spending — to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.
- sphenoid — being in the shape of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- sphingid — hawk moth.
- spin-dry — to remove moisture from (laundry) by centrifugal force, as in an automatic washing machine.
- spindled — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- spindler — a person who spindles
- splendid — gorgeous; magnificent; sumptuous. Synonyms: luxurious, dazzling, imposing. Antonyms: squalid.