8-letter words containing e, n, a, t
- romanite — a fossil resin similar to amber, used for jewelry.
- rosinate — a salt or acid occurring in resin
- routeman — a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- ruminate — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- runagate — a fugitive or runaway.
- ruthenia — a former province in E Czechoslovakia.
- sagenite — a variety of rutile occurring as needlelike crystals embedded in quartz.
- saginate — to fatten (livestock)
- saintess — a female saint
- salmonet — a young salmon
- saltness — the state or quality of being salt or salty.
- sanative — having the power to heal; curative.
- sanitate — to make sanitary; equip with sanitary appliances: to sanitate a new town.
- sanities — the state of being sane; soundness of mind.
- sanitise — to free from dirt, germs, etc., as by cleaning or sterilizing.
- sanitize — to free from dirt, germs, etc., as by cleaning or sterilizing.
- santa fé — a city in E Argentina.
- santarem — a city in N Brazil, on the Amazon River.
- santeria — (sometimes lowercase) a religion merging the worship of Yoruba deities with veneration of Roman Catholic saints: practiced in Cuba and spread to other parts of the Caribbean and to the U.S. by Cuban emigrés.
- saponite — a clay mineral, hydrous magnesium aluminum silicate, belonging to the montmorillonite group: found as a soft filling in rock cavities.
- sarcenet — a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
- sarsenet — a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
- sauteing — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- sauterne — a semisweet white wine of California, commonly sold as a jug wine.
- saxonite — any peridotite rock composed mainly of olivine and orthopyroxene
- scandent — climbing, as a plant.
- scantest — barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate: to do scant justice.
- scanties — women's underwear
- schantze — a pile of stones heaped to shelter soldiers from gunfire
- seafront — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- seamount — a submarine mountain rising several hundred fathoms above the floor of the sea but having its summit well below the surface of the water.
- seatrain — a ship for the transportation of loaded railroad cars.
- sedation — the calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, especially by the administration of a drug.
- segreant — (of a griffin) rampant.
- selenate — a salt or ester of selenic acid.
- semantic — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semblant — semblance
- seminate — disseminated; scattered; strewn
- senorita — a Spanish term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- serenata — a form of secular cantata, often of a dramatic or imaginative character.
- serenate — a form of secular cantata, often of a dramatic or imaginative character.
- sergeant — Ancient Eboracum. a city in North Yorkshire, in NE England, on the Ouse: the capital of Roman Britain; cathedral.
- serjeant — a noncommissioned army officer of a rank above that of corporal.
- setenant — pair of postage stamps of different values joined together
- shea nut — the seed of the shea tree and the source of shea butter.
- sheraton — Thomas, 1751–1806, English cabinetmaker and furniture designer.
- shetland — Shetland Islands.
- slattern — a slovenly, untidy woman or girl.
- smaltine — a white mineral ore of cobalt
- snakebit — bitten by a snake.