8-letter words containing s, a, c, r, e
- semiarch — a half arch.
- seraphic — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
- sericate — sericeous; silky.
- skincare — use of toiletries on the skin
- snatcher — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- socrates — 469?–399 b.c, Athenian philosopher.
- sortance — suitableness
- spacewar — (games) A space-combat simulation game for the PDP-1 written in 1960-61 by Steve Russell, an employee at MIT. SPACEWAR was inspired by E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and jumping through hyperspace. MIT were wondering what to do with a new vector video display so Steve wrote the world's first video game. Steve now lives in California and still writes software for HC12 emulators. SPACEWAR aficionados formed the core of the early hacker culture at MIT. Nine years later, a descendant of the game motivated Ken Thompson to build, in his spare time on a scavenged PDP-7, the operating system that became Unix. Less than nine years after that, SPACEWAR was commercialised as one of the first video games; descendants are still feeping in video arcades everywhere.
- specmark — (benchmark) The average of a set of floating-point and integer SPEC benchmark results. While the old average SPECmark89 has been popular with the industry and the press, SPEC has intentionally *not* defined an average "SPECmark92" over all CPU benchmarks of the 1992 suites (CINT92 and CFP92), for the following reasons: With 6 integer (CINT92) and 14 floating-point (CFP92) benchmarks, the average would be biased too much toward floating-point. Customers' workloads are different, some integer-only, some floating-point intensive, some mixed. Current processors have developed their strengths in a more diverse way (some more emphasizing integer performance, some more floating-point performance) than in 1989. Some SPECmark results are available here. See also SPECint92, SPECfp92, SPECrate_int92, SPECrate_fp92.
- spectral — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- specular — pertaining to or having the properties of a mirror.
- spiracle — a breathing hole; an opening by which a confined space has communication with the outer air; air hole.
- sprackle — to clamber or scramble upwards
- spruance — Raymond Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1886–1969, U.S. admiral.
- stancher — staunch2 .
- 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.
- sterical — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- strachey — (Giles) Lytton [jahylz lit-n] /dʒaɪlz ˈlɪt n/ (Show IPA), 1880–1932, English biographer and literary critic.
- supercar — a very expensive fast or powerful car with a centrally located engine
- supermac — A general-purpose macro language, embeddable in existing languages as a run-time library.
- surcease — to cease from some action; desist.
- surfaced — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
- 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.
- 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.
- syracuse — a city in central New York.
- terraces — unroofed tiers around a football pitch on which the spectators stand
- thoraces — Anatomy. the part of the trunk in humans and higher vertebrates between the neck and the abdomen, containing the cavity, enclosed by the ribs, sternum, and certain vertebrae, in which the heart, lungs, etc., are situated; chest.
- trackies — loose-fitting trousers with elasticated cuffs, designed to be worn as part of a tracksuit
- transect — to cut across; dissect transversely.
- unscared — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- varicose — abnormally or unusually enlarged or swollen: a varicose vein.
- vicaress — a rank of nun
- visceral — of or relating to the viscera.
- watchers — Plural form of watcher.
- wiseacre — a person who possesses or affects to possess great wisdom.
- xpercase — A structure diagram editor for developing, re-engineering, maintaining and documenting programs, developed by Siemens AG, Austria. It runs under Microsoft Windows. E-Mail: <[email protected]>.
- yachters — Plural form of yachter.