7-letter words containing i, r, s, a
- sardius — sard.
- sarking — a timber or felt cladding placed over the rafters of a roof before the tiles or slates are fixed in place
- sassari — a city in NW Sardinia.
- satires — the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
- satiric — of, pertaining to, containing, or characterized by satire: satirical novels.
- satyric — Classical Mythology. one of a class of woodland deities, attendant on Bacchus, represented as part human, part horse, and sometimes part goat and noted for riotousness and lasciviousness.
- satyrid — Classical Mythology. one of a class of woodland deities, attendant on Bacchus, represented as part human, part horse, and sometimes part goat and noted for riotousness and lasciviousness.
- saucier — a chef or cook who specializes in making sauces.
- saurian — belonging or pertaining to the Sauria, a group of reptiles originally including the lizards, crocodiles, and several extinct forms but now technically restricted to the lizards.
- sauroid — a type of fish
- sautoir — a ribbon, chain, scarf, or the like, tied around the neck in such a manner that the ends cross over each other.
- savarin — a spongelike cake leavened with yeast, baked in a ring mold, and often soaked with a rum syrup.
- saviour — a person who saves, rescues, or delivers: the savior of the country.
- savvier — experienced, knowledgable, and well-informed; shrewd (often used in combination): consumers who are savvy about prices; a tech-savvy entrepreneur.
- scabrid — having a rough or scaly surface
- scarier — causing fright or alarm.
- scarify — to make scratches or superficial incisions in (the skin, a wound, etc.), as in vaccination.
- scarily — in a scary or frightening manner
- scaring — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- schirra — Walter Marty, Jr [mahr-tee] /ˈmɑr ti/ (Show IPA), 1923–2007, U.S. astronaut.
- sciarid — a small black-coloured fly harmful to seedlings and mushrooms
- scoriae — Metallurgy. the refuse, dross, or slag left after melting or smelting metal; scum.
- scraich — to scream or screech
- scrapie — a usually fatal brain disease of sheep, characterized by twitching of the neck and head, grinding of the teeth, and scraping of itching portions of skin against fixed objects with a subsequent loss of wool: thought to be caused by an infectious prion.
- scribal — a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing.
- scutari — Lake, a lake between NW Albania and Montenegro. About 135 sq. mi. (350 sq. km).
- sea air — The sea air is the air at the seaside, which is regarded as being good for people's health.
- seabird — a bird frequenting the sea or coast.
- seagirt — surrounded by the sea.
- searing — to burn or char the surface of: She seared the steak to seal in the juices.
- sedarim — a plural of Seder.
- seminar — a small group of students, as in a university, engaged in advanced study and original research under a member of the faculty and meeting regularly to exchange information and hold discussions.
- semiraw — (of food) not fully cooked; (of materials) not fully processed; raw to some degree
- senarii — a Latin verse of six feet, especially an iambic trimeter.
- serapis — Also, Sarapis. a Greco-Egyptian deity combining the attributes of Osiris and Apis, identified in Egypt with the Ptolemies: later worshiped throughout the Greek and Roman empires.
- serbian — of or relating to Serbia, its inhabitants, or their language.
- seriate — arranged or occurring in one or more series.
- seriema — either of two birds of the family Cariamidae, Cariama cristata, of southern Brazil, or Chunga burmeisteri, of Argentina, having long legs, an erectile crest, a short, broad bill, and limited ability to fly.
- seringa — any of several Brazilian trees of the genus Hevea, yielding rubber.
- serkali — (in Africa) the government
- setaria — any grass of the genus Setaria, having a dense panicle, grown for forage.
- shapiro — Karl (Jay) 1913–2000, U.S. poet and editor.
- shariah — law, seen as deriving from the Koran, hadith, ijmaʿ, and qiyas.
- sharing — the full or proper portion or part allotted or belonging to or contributed or owed by an individual or group.
- shariʿa — law, seen as deriving from the Koran, hadith, ijmaʿ, and qiyas.
- sharpie — sharper.
- sharrie — a female given name, form of Sharon.
- shastri — Lal Bahadur [lahl bah-hah-doo r] /lɑl bɑˈhɑ dʊər/ (Show IPA), 1904–66, Indian statesman: prime minister 1964–66.
- shikari — (in India) a person who hunts big game, especially a professional guide or hunter.
- shortia — an evergreen herb native to eastern North America and temperate Asia, with white, pink, or blue flowers