8-letter words containing e, s, r, o
- roseslug — any of various types of pest that feed on roses
- rosewall — Ken(neth R.) born 1934, Australian tennis player.
- rosewood — any of various reddish cabinet woods, sometimes with a roselike odor, yielded by certain tropical trees, especially belonging to the genus Dalbergia, of the legume family.
- rosinate — a salt or acid occurring in resin
- rosiness — pink or pinkish-red; roseate.
- roskilde — a city on the island of Zealand, in E Denmark: a suburb of Copenhagen.
- ross sea — an arm of the Antarctic Ocean, S of New Zealand, extending into Antarctica.
- rossetti — Christina Georgina, 1830–94, English poet.
- rostrate — furnished with a rostrum.
- rosulate — forming a rosette or rosettes.
- rothesay — a town in the Strathclyde region, on Bute island, in SW Scotland: resort; ruins of 11th-century castle.
- roughest — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- rounders — a person or thing that rounds something.
- rousseau — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), ("Le Douanier") 1844–1910, French painter.
- rousseff — Dilma (ˈdʒiwmɐ). born 1947, Brazilian socialist politician; president of Brazil (2011–16)
- routines — a customary or regular course of procedure.
- rubstone — a stone, especially a whetstone, used for polishing or sharpening.
- rugulose — finely rugose; having many small wrinkles.
- rushmore — Mount, a peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota that is a memorial (Mount Rushmore National Memorial) having 60-foot (18-meter) busts of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, carved into its face between 1927 and 1941, from a design by and under the direction of Gutzon Borglum. 5600 feet (1707 meters).
- saboteur — a person who commits or practices sabotage.
- sabotier — a wearer of sabots
- sagamore — (among the American Indians of New England) a chief or leader.
- saleroom — Chiefly British. salesroom (def 2).
- san remo — a seaport in NW Italy, on the Riviera: resort.
- saprogen — a plant or animal that can produce decay.
- sapropel — mud consisting chiefly of decomposed organic matter formed at the bottom of a stagnant sea or lake.
- sarajevo — a republic in S Europe: formerly (1945–92) a constituent republic of Yugoslavia. 19,909 sq. mi. (51,565 sq. km). Capital: Sarajevo.
- sargeson — Frank. 1903–82, New Zealand short-story writer and novelist. His work includes the short-story collection That Summer and Other Stories (1946) and the novel I Saw in my Dream (1949)
- sarpedon — a Lycian prince, son of Zeus, killed by Patroclus in the Trojan War.
- save for — Save for means the same as save.
- savorier — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
- savories — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
- savourer — a person who savours or seasons food
- sawhorse — a movable frame or trestle for supporting wood being sawed.
- scarmoge — a skirmish or minor conflict
- scenario — an outline of the plot of a dramatic work, giving particulars as to the scenes, characters, situations, etc.
- schooler — an institution where instruction is given, especially to persons under college age: The children are at school.
- schooner — Nautical. any of various types of sailing vessel having a foremast and mainmast, with or without other masts, and having fore-and-aft sails on all lower masts. See also ketch, topsail schooner, yawl1 (def 2).
- schröder — Gerhard (ˈɡerhɑt). born 1944, German Social Democrat politician; chancellor of Germany from 1998–2005
- scleroid — hard or indurated.
- scleroma — a tumorlike hardening of tissue.
- sclerose — to undergo sclerosis; to harden
- sclerous — hard; firm; bony.
- scoffers — to speak derisively; mock; jeer (often followed by at): If you can't do any better, don't scoff. Their efforts toward a peaceful settlement are not to be scoffed at.
- scorched — slightly burned
- scorcher — a person or thing that scorches.
- scorepad — a pad whose sheets are printed with headings, vertical or horizontal lines, symbols, or the like, to facilitate the recording of scores in a game, as bowling or bridge.
- scorsese — Martin, born 1942, U.S. film director.
- scourger — a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
- scouther — to scorch or singe