8-letter words containing n, o, s, t, r
- sanatory — favorable for health; curative; healing.
- sandwort — any plant belonging to the genus Arenaria, of the pink family, having narrow leaves and clusters of usually white flowers, many of which grow in sandy soil.
- santorin — Thera.
- scranton — William Warren, 1917–2011, U.S. politician.
- seafront — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- 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.
- serotine — late in occurring, developing, or flowering.
- serotiny — the quality or condition of being serotine
- sheraton — Thomas, 1751–1806, English cabinetmaker and furniture designer.
- short on — having little length; not long.
- shorting — having little length; not long.
- 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)
- skiatron — a cathode-ray tube used in radar
- snorting — (of animals) to force the breath violently through the nostrils with a loud, harsh sound: The spirited horse snorted and shied at the train.
- snot rag — a handkerchief
- snot-rag — a handkerchief.
- snottery — snot or filth
- softener — Chemistry. any admixture to a substance for promoting or increasing its softness, smoothness, or plasticity. water softener.
- songster — a person who sings; a singer.
- sonorant — a voiced sound that is less sonorous than a vowel but more sonorous than a stop or fricative and that may occur as either a sonant or a consonant, as (l, r, m, n, y, w).
- sonority — the condition or quality of being resonant or sonorous.
- sorption — the state or process of being sorbed.
- sorrento — a seaport in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: resort; cathedral; ancient ruins.
- sortance — suitableness
- sortment — an assortment or classification
- southern — lying toward, situated in, or directed toward the south.
- southron — Southern U.S. southerner (def 2).
- sporting — of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport: sport fishing.
- staghorn — a piece of a stag's antler, especially when used to form objects, decorations, or the like.
- stanford — (Amasa) Leland, 1824–93, U.S. railroad developer, politician, and philanthropist: governor of California 1861–63; senator 1885–93.
- start on — begin attacking
- stentour — a tax assessor or person who determines the amount of tax that is owed
- sternson — a knee in a timber-framed vessel, reinforcing the angle between the keelson and the sternpost.
- stonerag — a type of lichen, Parmela saxatilis, which produces a brown dye
- storeman — a man employed to look after a storeroom
- storming — a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
- stormont — a suburb of Belfast: site of Parliament House (1928–30), formerly the seat of the parliament of Northern Ireland (1922–72) and since 1998 of the Northern Ireland assembly, and Stormont Castle, formerly the residence of the prime minister of Northern Ireland and since 1998 the office of the province's first minister
- storting — the parliament of Norway, elected by popular vote, which is divided into the upper house (Lagting) comprising one quarter of the members, and the lower house (Odelsting) comprising the rest.
- stratton — Charles Sherwood ("General Tom Thumb") 1838–83, U.S. midget who performed in the circus of P. T. Barnum.
- strawson — Sir Peter (Frederick). 1919–2006, British philosopher. His early work deals with the relationship between language and logic, his later work with metaphysics. His books include The Bounds of Sense (1966) and Freedom and Resentment (1974)
- stroking — an act or instance of stroking; a stroking movement.
- stronger — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- strongly — with great strength or force: wind blowing strongly from the west.
- 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.
- strontic — of or relating to strontium
- stubborn — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- sturgeon — any of various large fishes of the family Acipenseridae, inhabiting fresh and salt North Temperate waters, valued for their flesh and as a source of caviar and isinglass: A. brevirostrum, of the Atlantic coast, is endangered.
- sturnoid — of or relating to starlings
- surmount — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- tenorist — a person who sings tenor.