8-letter words containing i, r, t, a
- slaister — a sloppy mess
- smarting — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- smartish — rather smart; fairly intelligent or quick-witted: smartish answers on a quiz.
- socratic — of or relating to Socrates or his philosophy, followers, etc., or to the Socratic method.
- solitary — alone; without companions; unattended: a solitary passer-by.
- soterial — relating to salvation
- sparsity — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- spartina — a ricegrass which grows in salt marshes
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- stairway — a passageway from one level, as of a building, to another by a series of stairs; staircase.
- starfish — any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea, having the body radially arranged, usually in the form of a star, with five or more rays or arms radiating from a central disk; asteroid.
- starlike — of the shape of or like a star.
- starling — a pointed cluster of pilings for protecting a bridge pier from drifting ice, debris, etc.
- starlisp — *LISP
- starring — any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- starship — a spaceship designed for intergalactic travel.
- start in — to undertake (something or doing something); commence or begin
- starving — very hungry
- stearine — Chemistry. any of the three glyceryl esters of stearic acid, especially C 3 H 5 (C 1 8 H 3 5 O 2) 3 , a soft, white, odorless solid found in many natural fats.
- sterical — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- sterigma — a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- stingray — any of the rays, especially of the family Dasyatidae, having a long, flexible tail armed near the base with a strong, serrated bony spine with which they can inflict painful wounds.
- stinkard — a despicable person; stinker.
- stipular — of or like a stipule or stipules
- stradiot — a soldier, usually of Greek or Albanian origin, who fought on horseback for the Venetian republic in the 15th and 16th centuries
- strafing — an act or instance of strafing
- straicht — straight
- straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- strained — affected or produced by effort; not natural or spontaneous; forced: strained hospitality.
- strainer — a person or thing that strains.
- straiten — to put into difficulties, especially financial ones: His obligations had straitened him.
- straitly — Often, straits. (used with a singular verb) a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.
- stratify — to form or place in strata or layers.
- stravaig — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- straying — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
- striated — striated.
- striatum — a striped mass of white and grey matter in the brain which controls movement and balance
- strigate — (of animals) streaked with different colours
- strobila — the body of a tapeworm exclusive of the head and neck region. Compare scolex.
- strontia — Also called strontium oxide. a white or grayish-white, amorphous powder, SrO, resembling lime in its general character: used chiefly in the manufacture of strontium salts.
- suricate — a small, burrowing South African carnivore, Suricata suricatta, of a grayish color with dark bands across the back, related to the mongooses and having social behavior similar to that of prairie dogs.
- sutorial — relating to sewing or cobbling
- sybarite — (usually lowercase) a person devoted to luxury and pleasure.
- tabering — a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
- taborite — (in the 15th century) a member of the militant body of Hussites maintaining a strict literal interpretation of the Scriptures.
- taciturn — inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation.
- taffrail — the upper part of the stern of a ship.
- taghairm — a form of divination once practised in the Highlands of Scotland
- taileron — an aileron located on the tailplane of an aircraft
- tailleur — a tailored or tailor-made costume for women.