8-letter words containing r, e, i, t, s
- stricken — a past participle of strike.
- strickle — a straightedge used for sweeping off heaped-up grain to the level of the rim of a measure.
- stricter — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
- strident — making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges.
- strigate — (of animals) streaked with different colours
- strigine — of or like an owl
- strigose — Botany. set with stiff bristles of hairs; hispid.
- strimmer — A Strimmer is an electric tool used for cutting long grass or grass at the edge of a lawn. It cuts the grass with a piece of plastic cord which goes round very fast.
- stringed — fitted with strings (often used in combination): a five-stringed banjo.
- stringer — a person or thing that strings.
- stripped — having had a covering, clothing, equipment, or furnishings removed: trees stripped of their leaves by the storm; a stripped bed ready for clean sheets.
- stripper — a person who strips.
- strivers — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- strobile — a reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop.
- stroheim — Erich von [er-ik] /ˈɛr ɪk/ (Show IPA), 1885–1957, U.S. actor and director, born in Austria.
- studiers — application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge, as by reading, investigation, or reflection: long hours of study.
- stupider — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
- sturdier — strongly built; stalwart; robust: sturdy young athletes.
- subtribe — tribe within a larger tribe
- suitress — a female suitor
- superfit — extremely fit
- superhit — an extremely popular song, film, CD, play, etc
- 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.
- surtitle — supertitle.
- sybarite — (usually lowercase) a person devoted to luxury and pleasure.
- tarsiped — a generic term for marsupials of the genus Tarsipes
- 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.
- tenorist — a person who sings tenor.
- teratism — love or worship of the monstrous.
- teresian — a member of the reformed order of barefooted Carmelites, founded in Spain in 1562.
- teresina — a state in NE Brazil. 96,860 sq. mi. (250,870 sq. km). Capital: Teresina.
- terminus — the end or extremity of anything.
- termwise — term by term: The series can be integrated termwise. Two series are added termwise.
- testrill — sixpence
- theories — a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena: Einstein's theory of relativity. Synonyms: principle, law, doctrine.
- theorise — to form a theory or theories.
- theorist — a person who theorizes.
- thesiger — Wilfred (Patrick). 1910–2003, British writer, who explored the Empty Quarter of Arabia (1945–50) and lived with the Iraqi marsh Arabs (1950–58). His books include Arabian Sands (1958), The Marsh Arabs (1964), and My Kenya Days (1994)
- thirties — a cardinal number, 10 times 3.
- thrivers — to prosper; be fortunate or successful.
- tiberias — Lake. Galilee, Sea of.
- tiberius — (Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar) 42 b.c.–a.d. 37, Roman emperor 14–37.
- tigerish — tigerlike, as in strength, fierceness, courage, or coloration.
- tigerism — an arrogant and showy manner
- timorese — of or relating to Timor.
- tinselry — cheap and pretentious display.
- tireless — untiring; indefatigable: a tireless worker.
- tiresias — a blind prophet, usually said to have been blinded because he saw Athena bathing, and then to have been awarded the gift of prophecy as a consolation for his blindness.
- tiresome — causing or liable to cause a person to tire; wearisome: a tiresome job.
- topsider — a light canvas shoe