8-letter words containing r, o, t, s, i
- robotics — the use of computer-controlled robots to perform manual tasks, especially on an assembly line.
- robotism — a machine that resembles a human and does mechanical, routine tasks on command.
- romanist — Disparaging. a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
- roosting — a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- rosinate — a salt or acid occurring in resin
- rossetti — Christina Georgina, 1830–94, English poet.
- roswitha — Hrotsvitha.
- routines — a customary or regular course of procedure.
- royalist — a supporter or adherent of a king or royal government, especially in times of rebellion or civil war.
- ructions — disturbance
- ructious — tending or likely to cause ructions
- rugosity — having wrinkles; wrinkled; ridged.
- sabotier — a wearer of sabots
- santorin — Thera.
- sarodist — a person who plays the sarod
- senorita — a Spanish term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- serosity — resembling serum; of a watery nature.
- serotine — late in occurring, developing, or flowering.
- serotiny — the quality or condition of being serotine
- servitor — a person who is in or at the service of another; attendant.
- setiform — bristle-shaped; setaceous.
- shitwork — bad work; tedious, badly-paid work
- shorting — having little length; not long.
- shortish — rather short.
- signoret — Simone (simɔ̃), original name Simone Kaminker. 1921–85, French stage and film actress, whose films include La Ronde (1950), Casque d'Or (1952), Room at the Top (1958), and Ship of Fools (1965): married the actor and singer Yves Montand (1921–91)
- sistroid — contained between the convex sides of two intersecting curves
- sit over — to be seated in an advantageous position on the left of (the player)
- skiatron — a cathode-ray tube used in radar
- snorting — (of animals) to force the breath violently through the nostrils with a loud, harsh sound: The spirited horse snorted and shied at the train.
- sobriety — the state or quality of being sober.
- socratic — of or relating to Socrates or his philosophy, followers, etc., or to the Socratic method.
- solitary — alone; without companions; unattended: a solitary passer-by.
- sonority — the condition or quality of being resonant or sonorous.
- sorbitic — relating to sorbite
- sorbitol — a white, crystalline, sweet, water-soluble powder, C 6 H 8 (OH) 6 , occurring in cherries, plums, pears, seaweed, and many berries, obtained by the breakdown of dextrose and used as a sugar substitute for diabetics and in the manufacture of vitamin C, synthetic resins, candy, varnishes, etc.; sorbol.
- sorority — a society or club of women or girls, especially in a college.
- sorption — the state or process of being sorbed.
- sorptive — the state or process of being sorbed.
- 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.
- soterial — relating to salvation
- sporting — of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport: sport fishing.
- sportive — playful or frolicsome; jesting, jocose, or merry: a sportive puppy.
- 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.
- storming — a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
- storting — the parliament of Norway, elected by popular vote, which is divided into the upper house (Lagting) comprising one quarter of the members, and the lower house (Odelsting) comprising the rest.
- stradiot — a soldier, usually of Greek or Albanian origin, who fought on horseback for the Venetian republic in the 15th and 16th centuries
- strigose — Botany. set with stiff bristles of hairs; hispid.
- strijdom — Johannes Gerhardus (joˈhanəs ɡeːrˈhɑːdəs). 1893–1958, South African statesman; prime minister (1954–58)
- strobila — the body of a tapeworm exclusive of the head and neck region. Compare scolex.
- strobile — a reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop.