8-letter words containing e, s, r, o
- sopherim — scribe1 (def 3).
- soporose — sleepy.
- sorbable — able to absorb
- sorbonne — the seat of the faculties of arts and letters of the University of Paris.
- sorcerer — a person who practices sorcery; black magician; wizard.
- sordello — born ?1200, Italian troubadour
- soredial — pertaining to or resembling a soredium.
- soredium — a group of algal cells surrounded by hyphal tissue, occurring on the surface of the thallus and functioning in vegetative reproduction.
- sorehead — a disgruntled or vindictive person, especially an unsportsmanlike loser: Don't be such a sorehead, they won fair and square.
- soreness — physically painful or sensitive, as a wound, hurt, or diseased part: a sore arm.
- sorensen — Soren Peter Lauritz [sœ-ruh n pey-tar lou-rits] /ˈsœ rən ˈpeɪ tær ˈlaʊ rɪts/ (Show IPA), 1868–1939, Danish chemist: developed pH scale.
- soricine — of or resembling the shrews.
- sororate — subsequent or concurrent marriage with a wife's sister.
- sororize — to socialize in a sisterly way
- sorptive — the state or process of being sorbed.
- sorrento — a seaport in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: resort; cathedral; ancient ruins.
- sorriest — feeling regret, compunction, sympathy, pity, etc.: to be sorry to leave one's friends; to be sorry for a remark; to be sorry for someone in trouble.
- sorrowed — distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.
- sortable — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- sortance — suitableness
- sortment — an assortment or classification
- soterial — relating to salvation
- sourdine — mute (def 10).
- sourness — having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juice, etc.; tart.
- sourveld — (in South Africa) a type of grazing characterized by long coarse grass
- souterly — relating to a souter
- southern — lying toward, situated in, or directed toward the south.
- souvenir — a usually small and relatively inexpensive article given, kept, or purchased as a reminder of a place visited, an occasion, etc.; memento.
- sowarree — an Indian mounted escort
- sowbread — any of several species of cyclamen, especially Cyclamen hederifolium, a low-growing Old World plant having mottled leaves and pink or white flowers.
- spectro- — indicating a spectrum
- spermous — of the nature of or pertaining to sperm.
- spheroid — a solid geometrical figure similar in shape to a sphere, as an ellipsoid.
- splendor — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- spoofery — good-humored mockery or teasing.
- spookery — matters relating to spies and espionage
- spoonier — foolishly or sentimentally amorous.
- sporades — two groups of Greek islands in the Aegean: the Northern Sporades, lying northeast of Euboea, and the Southern Sporades, which include the Dodecanese and lie off the SW coast of Turkey
- sportive — playful or frolicsome; jesting, jocose, or merry: a sportive puppy.
- sprocket — Machinery. Also called chainwheel, sprocket wheel. a toothed wheel engaging with a conveyor or power chain. one tooth of such a wheel.
- spurgeon — Charles Haddon [had-n] /ˈhæd n/ (Show IPA), 1834–92, English Baptist preacher.
- stem rot — a symptom or phase of many diseases of plants, characterized by decay of the stem tissues.
- stentour — a tax assessor or person who determines the amount of tax that is owed
- stepford — blandly conformist and submissive
- stepover — an instance of raising the foot over the ball while in possession in order to wrong-foot an opponent
- stereome — the tissue of a plant that provides mechanical support
- sternson — a knee in a timber-framed vessel, reinforcing the angle between the keelson and the sternpost.
- steroids — any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds, as the sterols, bile acids, and sex hormones, most of which have specific physiological action.
- stompers — stamp (defs 1–3).
- stonerag — a type of lichen, Parmela saxatilis, which produces a brown dye