8-letter words containing s, a, n, r
- sprangle — to struggle or sprawl with limbs spread out wide
- sprauncy — smart or showy in appearance
- spray-on — applied by means of an aerosol spray
- springal — a young man
- spruance — Raymond Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1886–1969, U.S. admiral.
- spunware — objects formed by spinning.
- spunyarn — small stuff made from rope yarns twisted together
- squadron — a portion of a naval fleet or a detachment of warships; a subdivision of a fleet.
- squander — to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away).
- squarson — a clergyman who is also main local landowner
- srinagar — Also, Cashmere. a former princely state in SW Asia, adjacent to India, Pakistan, Sinkiang, and Tibet: sovereignty in dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947.
- staghorn — a piece of a stag's antler, especially when used to form objects, decorations, or the like.
- stancher — staunch2 .
- standard — something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.
- stanford — (Amasa) Leland, 1824–93, U.S. railroad developer, politician, and philanthropist: governor of California 1861–63; senator 1885–93.
- stannary — a tin-mining region or district.
- starling — a pointed cluster of pilings for protecting a bridge pier from drifting ice, debris, etc.
- starring — any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- start in — to undertake (something or doing something); commence or begin
- start on — begin attacking
- starving — very hungry
- 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.
- stenmark — Ingemar ("Silent Swede") born 1956, Swedish Alpine skier.
- sternage — the stern or rear of a ship
- sternway — Nautical. the movement of a vessel backward, or stern foremost.
- stingray — any of the rays, especially of the family Dasyatidae, having a long, flexible tail armed near the base with a strong, serrated bony spine with which they can inflict painful wounds.
- stinkard — a despicable person; stinker.
- stonerag — a type of lichen, Parmela saxatilis, which produces a brown dye
- storeman — a man employed to look after a storeroom
- strabane — a district of W Northern Ireland, in Co Tyrone. Pop: 38 565 (2003 est). Area: 862 sq km (333 sq miles)
- strafing — an act or instance of strafing
- strained — affected or produced by effort; not natural or spontaneous; forced: strained hospitality.
- strainer — a person or thing that strains.
- straiten — to put into difficulties, especially financial ones: His obligations had straitened him.
- strand88 — A commercial implementation of Strand from Strand Software Technologies Ltd., UK and Strand Software, Beaverton, OR, USA. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- stranded — composed of a specified number or kind of strands (usually used in combination): a five-stranded rope.
- strander — a person who strands
- stranger — French L'Étranger. a novel (1942) by Albert Camus.
- strangle — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- stratton — Charles Sherwood ("General Tom Thumb") 1838–83, U.S. midget who performed in the circus of P. T. Barnum.
- strawman — a mass of straw formed to resemble a man, as for a doll or scarecrow.
- strawson — Sir Peter (Frederick). 1919–2006, British philosopher. His early work deals with the relationship between language and logic, his later work with metaphysics. His books include The Bounds of Sense (1966) and Freedom and Resentment (1974)
- straying — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
- strontia — Also called strontium oxide. a white or grayish-white, amorphous powder, SrO, resembling lime in its general character: used chiefly in the manufacture of strontium salts.
- stunkard — sulky
- sublunar — situated beneath the moon or between the earth and the moon.
- subrange — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
- suburban — pertaining to, inhabiting, or being in a suburb or the suburbs of a city or town.
- sugaring — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- sumatran — a large island in the W part of Indonesia. 164,147 sq. mi. (425,141 sq. km).