8-letter words containing e, g, r, s
- sobering — not intoxicated or drunk.
- songster — a person who sings; a singer.
- spangler — a person who spangles
- speargun — a device for shooting spears underwater
- spearing — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
- spengler — Oswald [oz-wawld;; German aws-vahlt] /ˈɒz wɔld;; German ˈɔs vɑlt/ (Show IPA), 1880–1936, German philosopher.
- splurger — a person who splurges
- sprangle — to struggle or sprawl with limbs spread out wide
- sprigged — a small spray of some plant with its leaves, flowers, etc.
- springed — a snare for catching small game.
- springer — a person or thing that springs.
- spurgeon — Charles Haddon [had-n] /ˈhæd n/ (Show IPA), 1834–92, English Baptist preacher.
- squegger — an oscillator that produces an irregular current which builds up, is suppressed when it reaches a certain amplitude, and later builds up again
- squirage — squires considered as a whole group
- sry gene — a sex-determining gene on the Y chromosome in mammals that determines maleness and is essential for development of the testes.
- staggers — to walk, move, or stand unsteadily.
- staggery — tending to stagger
- stargaze — to gaze at or observe the stars.
- steerage — a part or division of a ship, formerly the part containing the steering apparatus.
- steering — Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip: He got a good steer about finding the right job.
- sterigma — a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- sterling — of, relating to, or noting British money: The sterling equivalent is #5.50.
- sternage — the stern or rear of a ship
- stonerag — a type of lichen, Parmela saxatilis, which produces a brown dye
- straggle — to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
- stranger — French L'Étranger. a novel (1942) by Albert Camus.
- strangle — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
- stravage — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- strength — the quality or state of being strong; bodily or muscular power; vigor.
- strewage — strewn or discarded items
- strigate — (of animals) streaked with different colours
- strigine — of or like an owl
- strigose — Botany. set with stiff bristles of hairs; hispid.
- stringed — fitted with strings (often used in combination): a five-stringed banjo.
- stringer — a person or thing that strings.
- stronger — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- struggle — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
- sturgeon — any of various large fishes of the family Acipenseridae, inhabiting fresh and salt North Temperate waters, valued for their flesh and as a source of caviar and isinglass: A. brevirostrum, of the Atlantic coast, is endangered.
- subgenre — a lesser or subordinate genre: a subgenre of popular fiction.
- subgrade — the prepared earth surface on which a pavement or the ballast of a railroad track is placed or upon which the foundation of a structure is built.
- submerge — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
- subrange — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
- suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
- sun gear — (in an epicyclic train) the central gear around which the planet gears revolve.
- sungrebe — finfoot.
- superbug — a pathogenic bacterium that has developed immunity to antibiotics, or an insect that has developed immunity to insecticides.
- superego — the part of the personality representing the conscience, formed in early life by internalization of the standards of parents and other models of behavior.
- supergun — any extremely powerful gun
- surgeful — full of surge