8-letter words containing o, a, r, s
- sortable — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- sortance — suitableness
- soterial — relating to salvation
- sour gas — Sour gas is natural gas with a high sulfur content.
- sourball — a round piece of hard candy with a tart or acid fruit flavoring.
- sowarree — an Indian mounted escort
- sowbread — any of several species of cyclamen, especially Cyclamen hederifolium, a low-growing Old World plant having mottled leaves and pink or white flowers.
- spadroon — a type of sword
- spanworm — measuringworm.
- sporades — two groups of Greek islands in the Aegean: the Northern Sporades, lying northeast of Euboea, and the Southern Sporades, which include the Dodecanese and lie off the SW coast of Turkey
- sporadic — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sporozoa — the protist phylum (or animal class) comprising the sporozoans.
- sporular — a spore, especially a small one.
- spray-on — applied by means of an aerosol spray
- squadron — a portion of a naval fleet or a detachment of warships; a subdivision of a fleet.
- squarson — a clergyman who is also main local landowner
- stafford — Jean, 1915–79, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- staghorn — a piece of a stag's antler, especially when used to form objects, decorations, or the like.
- stamford — a city in SW Connecticut.
- stanford — (Amasa) Leland, 1824–93, U.S. railroad developer, politician, and philanthropist: governor of California 1861–63; senator 1885–93.
- starosta — the headman of a Russian village
- starosty — (in the past in Poland) the estate of a starosta, given by the Crown
- starspot — a dark patch on the surface of a star
- start on — begin attacking
- starwort — any of several chickweeds of the genus Stellaria.
- stonerag — a type of lichen, Parmela saxatilis, which produces a brown dye
- stoppard — Tom (Thomas Straussler) born 1937, British playwright, born in the Czech Republic.
- storable — capable of being stored for considerable time without loss of freshness or usability.
- storeman — a man employed to look after a storeroom
- stradiot — a soldier, usually of Greek or Albanian origin, who fought on horseback for the Venetian republic in the 15th and 16th centuries
- stratose — formed in strata or layers
- stratous — of or relating to stratus
- 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)
- streator — a city in N Illinois.
- strobila — the body of a tapeworm exclusive of the head and neck region. Compare scolex.
- stromata — Cell Biology. the supporting framework or matrix of a cell.
- 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.
- sub rosa — confidentially; secretly; privately.
- subpolar — subantarctic.
- subsolar — situated beneath the sun or between the earth and the sun.
- sudatory — pertaining to or causing sweating.
- surfboat — a strong, buoyant rowboat with high ends, adapted for beaching and passing through surf.
- surroyal — the terminal section of a stag's horns, above the section known as the 'royal'
- sutorial — relating to sewing or cobbling
- swordman — swordsman.
- sycamore — Also called buttonwood. any of several North American plane trees, especially Platanus occidentalis, having shallowly lobed ovate leaves, globular seed heads, and wood valued as timber.
- tailor's — a shop where clothes can be repaired or altered
- tarboosh — a tasseled cap of cloth or felt, usually red, that is worn by Muslim men either by itself or as the inner part of the turban.
- tarsioid — a fossil of the suborder Tarsioidea