8-letter words containing s, c, r, a, t
- piscator — fisherman.
- postcard — Also called picture postcard. a small, commercially printed card, usually having a picture on one side and space for a short message on the other.
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- pushcart — any of various types of wheeled light cart to be pushed by hand, as one used by street vendors.
- rachitis — rickets.
- racquets — Plural form of racquet.
- reascent — a further ascent
- recusant — refusing to submit, comply, etc.
- refracts — to subject to refraction.
- ruckseat — a seat fixed to or forming part of a rucksack
- rustical — of, relating to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural.
- sacristy — an apartment in or a building connected with a church or a religious house, in which the sacred vessels, vestments, etc., are kept.
- sanscrit — Sanskrit
- sarcenet — a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
- sarmatic — of or relating to Sarmatia or its inhabitants
- saturnic — having or affected with lead-poisoning
- scarcest — insufficient to satisfy the need or demand; not abundant: Meat and butter were scarce during the war.
- scarcity — insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth.
- scariest — causing fright or alarm.
- scattery — characterized by scattering or dispersion
- sceptral — of, resembling, or relating to a sceptre
- schwartz — Delmore [del-mawr,, -mohr] /ˈdɛl mɔr,, -moʊr/ (Show IPA), 1913–1966, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- scimitar — a curved, single-edged sword of Asian, especially Eastern origin.
- scordato — out of tune
- scramjet — a ramjet engine in which the flow through the combustor itself is supersonic.
- scranton — William Warren, 1917–2011, U.S. politician.
- scratchy — causing or liable to cause a slight grating noise: a scratchy record.
- scrattle — to scratch
- seacraft — the skills and knowledge of a sailor
- sectator — a member or follower of a sect
- sectoral — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- selictar — the sword-bearer of a chieftain
- sericate — sericeous; silky.
- slot car — a miniature, electrically-operated toy racing car that runs on a slotted track and is controlled by an operator with a handheld rheostat.
- 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.
- socratic — of or relating to Socrates or his philosophy, followers, etc., or to the Socratic method.
- sortance — suitableness
- spectral — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- stancher — staunch2 .
- star cut — a gem cut having a hexagonal table surrounded by six facets in the form of equilateral triangles.
- 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.
- straicht — straight
- straucht — straight
- subtract — to withdraw or take away, as a part from a whole.
- 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.
- tarascan — a member of an American Indian people of Michoacán state, in southwestern Mexico.