8-letter words containing r, o, s, e, t
- somerset — an acrobatic movement, either forward or backward, in which the body rolls end over end, making a complete revolution.
- songster — a person who sings; a singer.
- sororate — subsequent or concurrent marriage with a wife's sister.
- sorptive — the state or process of being sorbed.
- sorrento — a seaport in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: resort; cathedral; ancient ruins.
- sorriest — feeling regret, compunction, sympathy, pity, etc.: to be sorry to leave one's friends; to be sorry for a remark; to be sorry for someone in trouble.
- 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
- sortment — an assortment or classification
- soterial — relating to salvation
- souterly — relating to a souter
- southern — lying toward, situated in, or directed toward the south.
- spectro- — indicating a spectrum
- sportive — playful or frolicsome; jesting, jocose, or merry: a sportive puppy.
- sprocket — Machinery. Also called chainwheel, sprocket wheel. a toothed wheel engaging with a conveyor or power chain. one tooth of such a wheel.
- stem rot — a symptom or phase of many diseases of plants, characterized by decay of the stem tissues.
- 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
- sternson — a knee in a timber-framed vessel, reinforcing the angle between the keelson and the sternpost.
- 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.
- stompers — stamp (defs 1–3).
- stonerag — a type of lichen, Parmela saxatilis, which produces a brown dye
- stopover — a brief stop in the course of a journey, as to eat, sleep, or visit friends.
- storable — capable of being stored for considerable time without loss of freshness or usability.
- store up — save, keep in reserve
- storeman — a man employed to look after a storeroom
- storeyed — having stories or floors (often used in combination): a two-storied house.
- stratose — formed in strata or layers
- streator — a city in N Illinois.
- strepto- — indicating a shape resembling a twisted chain
- stressor — an activity, event, or other stimulus that causes stress.
- strigose — Botany. set with stiff bristles of hairs; hispid.
- 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.
- strolled — to walk leisurely as inclination directs; ramble; saunter; take a walk: to stroll along the beach.
- stroller — a person who takes a leisurely walk; saunterer.
- stronger — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- stropper — a person who strops.
- strother — a male given name.
- strumose — having a struma or strumae.
- 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.
- superhot — extremely hot
- te score — Tertiary Entrance score: a score based on a pupil's performance in secondary school that determines his or her prospects of gaining entrance to tertiary educational institutions
- tea rose — any of several cultivated varieties of roses having a scent resembling that of tea.
- tea-rose — any of several cultivated varieties of roses having a scent resembling that of tea.
- temerous — audacious
- tenorist — a person who sings tenor.
- testator — a person who makes a will.