8-letter words containing n, t, e, r
- sternage — the stern or rear of a ship
- sternest — firm, strict, or uncompromising: stern discipline.
- sternite — a sclerite of the sternum of an insect, especially a ventral sclerite of an abdominal segment.
- sternson — a knee in a timber-framed vessel, reinforcing the angle between the keelson and the sternpost.
- sternway — Nautical. the movement of a vessel backward, or stern foremost.
- stinkier — foul smelling; stinking.
- stonerag — a type of lichen, Parmela saxatilis, which produces a brown dye
- storeman — a man employed to look after a storeroom
- strabane — a district of W Northern Ireland, in Co Tyrone. Pop: 38 565 (2003 est). Area: 862 sq km (333 sq miles)
- 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.
- stranded — composed of a specified number or kind of strands (usually used in combination): a five-stranded rope.
- strander — a person who strands
- stranger — French L'Étranger. a novel (1942) by Albert Camus.
- strangle — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- strength — the quality or state of being strong; bodily or muscular power; vigor.
- strepent — noisy
- stricken — a past participle of strike.
- strident — making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges.
- strigine — of or like an owl
- stringed — fitted with strings (often used in combination): a five-stringed banjo.
- stringer — a person or thing that strings.
- stronger — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- 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.
- subentry — an item shown or listed under a main entry, as in bookkeeping.
- subtrend — the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events.
- t number — one of a series of calibrations of lens openings according to the intensity of the light actually transmitted by the lens. Symbol: T.
- t-number — one of a series of calibrations of lens openings according to the intensity of the light actually transmitted by the lens. Symbol: T.
- tabering — a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
- tagareen — a junk shop
- taileron — an aileron located on the tailplane of an aircraft
- tainture — a taint or stain; contamination
- taker-in — licker-in.
- tapering — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- tarentum — ancient name of Taranto.
- tarpeian — designating or of a cliff on the Capitoline Hill in Rome from which traitors to the state were hurled to their death
- tartness — sharp to the taste; sour or acid: Tart apples are best for pie. Synonyms: astringent, acrid, piquant. Antonyms: sweet, sugary, bland, mellow.
- tarwhine — a bream, Rhabdosargus sarba, of E Australia, silver in colour with gold streaks
- taverner — John, 1490?–1545, English organist and composer.
- teardown — a taking apart; disassembly.
- teenager — a person in his or her teens.
- teletron — a system for showing enlarged televisual images in sports stadiums
- tenantry — tenants collectively; the body of tenants on an estate.
- tendered — soft or delicate in substance; not hard or tough: a tender steak.
- tenderer — soft or delicate in substance; not hard or tough: a tender steak.
- tenderly — soft or delicate in substance; not hard or tough: a tender steak.
- tendrils — a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
- tenebrae — the office of matins and lauds for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of Holy Week, sung respectively on the afternoon of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of that week, at which the Crucifixion is commemorated by the gradual extinguishment of candles.
- tenebrio — a type of small mealworm