8-letter words containing n, e, s, u
- restrung — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- resuming — to take up or go on with again after interruption; continue: to resume a journey.
- resummon — to summon again
- resupine — lying on the back; supine.
- rounders — a person or thing that rounds something.
- routines — a customary or regular course of procedure.
- rubstone — a stone, especially a whetstone, used for polishing or sharpening.
- rudeness — discourteous or impolite, especially in a deliberate way: a rude reply.
- rungless — one of the crosspieces, usually rounded, forming the steps of a ladder.
- saguenay — a river in SE Canada, in Quebec, flowing SE from Lake St. John to the St. Lawrence. 125 miles (200 km) long.
- sanguine — cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
- saucepan — a metal container of moderate depth, usually having a long handle and sometimes a cover, for stewing, boiling, etc.
- saunders — Dame Cicely. 1918–2005, British philanthropist: founded St Christopher's Hospice in 1967 for the care of the terminally ill, upon which the modern hospice movement is modelled. Her books include Living with Dying (1983)
- sauteing — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- sauterne — a semisweet white wine of California, commonly sold as a jug wine.
- scalenus — any of three muscles on each side of the neck, the action of which raises the first and second ribs in respiration and assists in bending the neck to one side.
- scentful — full of scent or odour; fragrant
- sciurine — of or relating to the squirrels and allied rodents of the family Sciuridae.
- scrounge — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- seacunny — a steersman or quartermaster in a ship manned by lascars
- seahound — a dogfish
- seamount — a submarine mountain rising several hundred fathoms above the floor of the sea but having its summit well below the surface of the water.
- secundum — according to
- secundus — (in prescriptions) second.
- sederunt — a prolonged discussion or session for discussion.
- segueing — to continue at once with the next musical section or composition (often used as a musical direction).
- seigneur — a lord, especially a feudal lord.
- selenium — a nonmetallic element chemically resembling sulfur and tellurium, occurring in several allotropic forms, as crystalline and amorphous, and having an electrical resistance that varies under the influence of light. Symbol: Se; atomic weight: 78.96; atomic number: 34; specific gravity: (gray) 4.80 at 25°C, (red) 4.50 at 25°C.
- selenous — selenious.
- semilune — a half-moon shape
- seminude — naked or unclothed, as a person or the body.
- semuncia — a bronze coin produced during the period of the Roman Republic, weighing half an ounce, and equivalent in value to a twenty-fourth of an as at the time
- senarius — a Latin verse of six feet, especially an iambic trimeter.
- send out — to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.
- senseful — full of reasonable sense; sound; judicious.
- sensuous — perceived by or affecting the senses: the sensuous qualities of music.
- sequence — the following of one thing after another; succession.
- sequency — consecutiveness
- sequined — a small shining disk or spangle used for ornamentation, as on women's clothing and accessories or on theatrical costumes.
- set menu — a complete meal in a restaurant or café for a stated price with a limited number of options to choose from for each course; it is usually cheaper than ordering dishes individually from the à la carte menu
- set upon — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- seven-up — all fours (def 2).
- shea nut — the seed of the shea tree and the source of shea butter.
- shenzhou — any of a series of manned Chinese spacecraft
- shrunken — a past participle of shrink.
- shunless — unable to be shunned
- shunpike — a side road taken instead of a turnpike or expressway to avoid tolls or to travel at a leisurely pace.
- shuriken — a martial-arts weapon usually in the shape of a star or cross with sharp protruding edges, thrown with a spin towards the target
- signieur — a lord
- sinecure — an office or position requiring little or no work, especially one yielding profitable returns.