8-letter words containing s, a, y, e
- same-day — carried out or taking place on the same day as a preliminary action
- samplery — the making of samplers
- sapiency — having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment.
- sashayed — to glide, move, or proceed easily or nonchalantly: She just sashayed in as if she owned the place.
- savagely — fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed: savage beasts.
- savagery — an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity.
- say when — to state when an action is to be stopped or begun, as when someone is pouring a drink
- sayville — a town on the S shore of Long Island, in SE New York.
- scarcely — barely; hardly; not quite: The light is so dim we can scarcely see.
- scattery — characterized by scattering or dispersion
- scyphate — being in the shape of a cup; cup-shaped.
- sea lily — a stalked, sessile crinoid.
- seacunny — a steersman or quartermaster in a ship manned by lascars
- sedately — calm, quiet, or composed; undisturbed by passion or excitement: a sedate party; a sedate horse.
- seminary — a special school providing education in theology, religious history, etc., primarily to prepare students for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate.
- sepalody — the changing of other flower parts, such as petals, into sepals
- sequoyah — 1770?–1843, Cherokee Indian scholar: inventor of a syllabary for writing Cherokee.
- serially — anything published, broadcast, etc., in short installments at regular intervals, as a novel appearing in successive issues of a magazine.
- sex play — erotic caressing, especially as a prelude to sexual intercourse; foreplay.
- sexenary — senary.
- sexually — of, relating to, or for sex: sexual matters; sexual aids.
- shattery — (of rock or soil) liable to shatter or crumble
- shenyang — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a province in NE China. 58,301 sq. mi. (151,000 sq. km). Capital: Shenyang.
- side-way — a byway.
- sideways — with a side foremost.
- siserary — a scolding
- sizeably — sizable.
- sky wave — a radio wave propagated upward from earth, whether reflected by the ionosphere or not.
- skyscape — a section or portion of the sky, usually extensive and often including part of the horizon, that may be seen from a single viewpoint.
- slabbery — slobbery.
- slattery — slovenly
- slayable — that may be slain for good reason
- slideway — an inclined surface along which something can slide.
- smyrnean — of or relating to Smyrna, Turkey.
- snailery — a place where snails are bred
- snakefly — any neuropterous insect of the family Raphidiidae, of western North America, having an elongated prothorax resembling a neck.
- sneakily — like or suggestive of a sneak; furtive; deceitful.
- sneaksby — an insignificant or cowardly person
- some day — on an unspecified date in the future
- sparsely — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- speedway — a town in central Indiana.
- spermary — an organ in which spermatozoa are generated; testis.
- spyplane — a military aeroplane used to spy on an enemy
- squarely — in a square shape, form, or manner.
- staggery — tending to stagger
- star key — a push button on a telephone or other electronic device that is marked with an asterisk, often in the lower left-hand area.
- statedly — fixed or settled: a stated price.
- stayless — not able to be stopped or stayed; constantly moving
- steadily — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
- stealthy — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.