8-letter words containing g, e, s, t
- sabotage — any underhand interference with production, work, etc., in a plant, factory, etc., as by enemy agents during wartime or by employees during a trade dispute.
- sagenite — a variety of rutile occurring as needlelike crystals embedded in quartz.
- saginate — to fatten (livestock)
- sauteing — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- scenting — a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable: the scent of roses.
- scutiger — any species of the Scutigera genus which includes many types of centipede
- sea gate — a navigable channel giving access to the sea.
- sea-girt — surrounded by the sea.
- seething — to surge or foam as if boiling.
- segreant — (of a griffin) rampant.
- sennight — a week.
- sergeant — Ancient Eboracum. a city in North Yorkshire, in NE England, on the Ouse: the capital of Roman Britain; cathedral.
- settling — the act of a person or thing that settles.
- she-goat — a female goat
- sheeting — Nautical. a rope or chain for extending the clews of a square sail along a yard. a rope for trimming a fore-and-aft sail. a rope or chain for extending the lee clew of a course.
- shortage — a deficiency in quantity: a shortage of cash.
- sightsee — to go about seeing places and things of interest: In Rome, we only had two days to sightsee.
- signoret — Simone (simɔ̃), original name Simone Kaminker. 1921–85, French stage and film actress, whose films include La Ronde (1950), Casque d'Or (1952), Room at the Top (1958), and Ship of Fools (1965): married the actor and singer Yves Montand (1921–91)
- skeeting — to spit (saliva or a mouthful of other liquid) from the mouth, especially between the teeth.
- sleeting — precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- slighted — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
- slugfest — a baseball game in which both teams make many runs and extra-base hits.
- smelting — to fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained.
- somegate — in some manner
- songfest — an informal, often spontaneous gathering at which people sing folk songs, popular ballads, etc.
- songster — a person who sings; a singer.
- spanglet — a little spangle
- spenting — simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- staffage — all of the additional figures, animals and other items of ornamentation in a painted scene or landscape, as distinct from the main figures or elements of the composition
- stageful — the number of people, or the amount of something, that fills a stage
- stagette — (as modifier)
- staggers — to walk, move, or stand unsteadily.
- staggery — tending to stagger
- stagnate — to cease to run or flow, as water, air, etc.
- stallage — the right to set up a stall in a fair or market.
- stargaze — to gaze at or observe the stars.
- steading — the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute: The nephew of the queen came in her stead.
- stealage — the act of stealing.
- stealing — Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- steaming — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- steeling — any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- steeping — to soak in water or other liquid, as to soften, cleanse, or extract some constituent: to steep tea in boiling-hot water; to steep reeds for basket weaving.
- 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.
- stegodon — any extinct elephantlike mammal of the genus Stegodon, from the late Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, usually considered to be directly ancestral to the modern elephant.
- stemming — Skiing. the act or instance of a skier pushing the heel of one or both skis outward so that the heels are far apart, as in making certain turns or slowing down.
- sten gun — a British light submachine gun.
- stepping — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- 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.