8-letter words containing r, e, s, t
- sprinted — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- sprinter — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- spritzer — a tall drink made with chilled wine and soda.
- sprocket — Machinery. Also called chainwheel, sprocket wheel. a toothed wheel engaging with a conveyor or power chain. one tooth of such a wheel.
- spurters — to gush or issue suddenly in a stream or jet, as a liquid; spout.
- sputtery — tending to sputter
- squatter — the act or fact of squatting.
- squirted — to eject liquid in a jet from a narrow orifice: The hose squirted all over us.
- squirter — to eject liquid in a jet from a narrow orifice: The hose squirted all over us.
- staggers — to walk, move, or stand unsteadily.
- staggery — tending to stagger
- stancher — staunch2 .
- star key — a push button on a telephone or other electronic device that is marked with an asterisk, often in the lower left-hand area.
- starched — a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C 6 H 1 0 O 5) n , occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods.
- stargaze — to gaze at or observe the stars.
- starkers — naked
- starkest — sheer, utter, downright, or complete: stark madness.
- starless — any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- starlike — of the shape of or like a star.
- starters — a person or thing that starts.
- startled — to disturb or agitate suddenly as by surprise or alarm.
- statured — of or having a stature of a certain kind (usually used in combination): the short-statured inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula.
- statures — the height of a human or animal body.
- staumrel — stupid; half-witted.
- stearate — a salt or ester of stearic acid.
- stearine — Chemistry. any of the three glyceryl esters of stearic acid, especially C 3 H 5 (C 1 8 H 3 5 O 2) 3 , a soft, white, odorless solid found in many natural fats.
- steelier — consisting or made of steel.
- steerage — a part or division of a ship, formerly the part containing the steering apparatus.
- steering — Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip: He got a good steer about finding the right job.
- stem rot — a symptom or phase of many diseases of plants, characterized by decay of the stem tissues.
- stemmery — a factory or other place where tobacco leaves are stripped.
- stemware — glass or crystal vessels, especially for beverages and desserts, having rounded bowls mounted on footed stems.
- stenmark — Ingemar ("Silent Swede") born 1956, Swedish Alpine skier.
- stentour — a tax assessor or person who determines the amount of tax that is owed
- stepford — blandly conformist and submissive
- stepover — an instance of raising the foot over the ball while in possession in order to wrong-foot an opponent
- stereome — the tissue of a plant that provides mechanical support
- sterical — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- sterigma — a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- sterling — of, relating to, or noting British money: The sterling equivalent is #5.50.
- 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.
- steroids — any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds, as the sterols, bile acids, and sex hormones, most of which have specific physiological action.
- stibbler — a preacher who is awaiting a permanent ministerial position
- stickler — a person who insists on something unyieldingly (usually followed by for): a stickler for ceremony.
- stinkier — foul smelling; stinking.
- stirless — lacking movement, not stirring