8-letter words containing s, a, l, t
- salt pan — an undrained natural depression, as a crater or tectonic basin, in which the evaporation of water leaves a deposit of salt.
- salt pit — a pit where salt is obtained.
- salt tax — any of various taxes imposed on salt, such as the French gabelle (abolished 1790) or that in India (abolished 1946)
- salt-box — a box in which salt is kept.
- saltando — (of a performance with a stringed instrument) playing each note staccato by bouncing the bow on the strings.
- saltbush — any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Atriplex, having mostly alternate leaves and clusters of inconspicuous flowers, often growing in saline or alkaline soil.
- salteaux — a member of a Native Canadian people of Manitoba
- saltfish — salted cod
- saltillo — a state in N Mexico. 58,067 sq. mi. (150,395 sq. km). Capital: Saltillo.
- saltless — lacking salt.
- saltness — the state or quality of being salt or salty.
- saltwork — place where salt is refined
- saltwort — any of various plants of sea beaches, salt marshes, and alkaline regions, especially belonging to the genus Salsola, of the amaranth family, as S. kali, a bushy plant having prickly leaves, or belonging to the genus Salicornia.
- salutary — favorable to or promoting health; healthful.
- sand-lot — a vacant lot used by youngsters for games or sports.
- santalic — of sandalwood
- santalin — the substance which gives sandalwood its colour
- santalol — a liquid from sandalwood used in making perfume
- sateless — insatiable; not able to be sated
- satelles — a planet that revolves around a larger planet
- satiable — capable of being satiated.
- satrapal — relating to a satrap or satrapy
- saxatile — living or growing on or among rocks.
- scantily — scant in amount, quantity, etc.; barely sufficient.
- sceptral — of, resembling, or relating to a sceptre
- schmaltz — Informal. exaggerated sentimentalism, as in music or soap operas.
- scotland — a division of the United Kingdom in the N part of Great Britain. 30,412 sq. mi. (78,772 sq. km). Capital: Edinburgh.
- scrattle — to scratch
- sea lift — an operation to move people, troops or goods by sea
- sea salt — table salt produced through the evaporation of seawater.
- sea-salt — table salt produced through the evaporation of seawater.
- seablite — any of several halophytic herbs of the genus Suaeda, having fleshy leaves.
- seatbelt — a belt or strap in an automobile, airplane, etc., fastened around or sometimes diagonally across the midsection to keep the person safely secured, as during a sudden stop.
- sectoral — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- sedately — calm, quiet, or composed; undisturbed by passion or excitement: a sedate party; a sedate horse.
- selenate — a salt or ester of selenic acid.
- selictar — the sword-bearer of a chieftain
- semblant — semblance
- septical — septic
- septimal — of or based on the number seven.
- septleva — (in the card game of basset) an amount seven times as high as the player's original stake
- set sail — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
- shadbolt — Maurice. 1932–2004, New Zealand novelist
- shetland — Shetland Islands.
- shitload — a lot of something; a large amount.
- shoptalk — the specialized vocabulary having to do with work or a field of work: I don't understand electronics shoptalk.
- sibilant — hissing.
- sibilate — to hiss.
- silastic — a flexible inert silicone rubber, used esp in prosthetic medicine
- silicate — Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.