8-letter words containing i, r, e, s, t
- reverist — someone who tends to daydream or is inclined to reveries
- rib site — (networking) (By analogy with backbone site) A host with an on-demand high-speed link to a backbone site that serves as a regional distribution point for lots of third-party traffic in electronic mail and Usenet news. Compare leaf site.
- riftless — without rift
- rightest — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- rimester — a writer of inferior verse; poetaster.
- rimstone — a calcareous deposit forming a dam at the edge or outlet of an overflowing pool of water, as in a cavern.
- ringlets — locks of hair hanging down in spiral curls
- ringster — a member of a ring, especially a political or price-fixing ring.
- rispetto — a form of folk verse from Tuscany
- riteless — lacking rite or ceremony
- rosinate — a salt or acid occurring in resin
- rossetti — Christina Georgina, 1830–94, English poet.
- routines — a customary or regular course of procedure.
- ruddiest — of or having a fresh, healthy red color: a ruddy complexion.
- sabatier — Paul [pawl] /pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1854–1941, French chemist: Nobel prize 1912.
- sabotier — a wearer of sabots
- 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.
- satirise — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- satirize — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- scariest — causing fright or alarm.
- scienter — a mental state in which one has knowledge that one’s action, statement, etc., is wrong, deceptive, or illegal: often used as a standard of guilt: The court found that the company had the requisite scienter for securities fraud.
- sclerite — any chitinous, calcareous, or similar hard part, plate, spicule, or the like.
- scripted — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- scripter — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- scutiger — any species of the Scutigera genus which includes many types of centipede
- sea-girt — surrounded by the sea.
- seatrain — a ship for the transportation of loaded railroad cars.
- secretin — a polypeptide hormone, produced in the small intestine, that activates the pancreas to secrete pancreatic juice.
- security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
- selictar — the sword-bearer of a chieftain
- 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.
- sentries — a soldier stationed at a place to stand guard and prevent the passage of unauthorized persons, watch for fires, etc., especially a sentinel stationed at a pass, gate, opening in a defense work, or the like.
- septaria — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- sequitur — a conclusion that follows from the premises
- serenity — the state or quality of being serene, calm, or tranquil; sereneness.
- seriatim — in a series; one after another in regular order
- sericate — sericeous; silky.
- sericite — a fine-grained variety of muscovite produced by the alteration of feldspar.
- serosity — resembling serum; of a watery nature.
- serotine — late in occurring, developing, or flowering.
- serotiny — the quality or condition of being serotine
- serratia — a genus of rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria that are saprophytic on decaying plant or animal materials.
- servient — subordinate; subservient; subject to another
- servitor — a person who is in or at the service of another; attendant.
- setiform — bristle-shaped; setaceous.
- setireme — the setose, oarlike leg of an aquatic insect.
- severity — harshness, sternness, or rigor: Their lives were marked by severity.
- siberite — a violet or violet-red tourmaline, used as a gem.
- siderate — to strike violently
- siderite — Also called chalybite. a common mineral, iron carbonate, FeCO 3 , usually occurring in yellowish to deep-brown cleavable masses: a minor ore of iron.