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8-letter words containing s, c, r, e

  • sectoral — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
  • securely — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
  • securest — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
  • security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
  • seductor — a person, usually a man, who seduces
  • selector — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
  • selictar — the sword-bearer of a chieftain
  • semiarch — a half arch.
  • seraphic — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
  • sericate — sericeous; silky.
  • sericite — a fine-grained variety of muscovite produced by the alteration of feldspar.
  • sermonic — of, relating to, or resembling a sermon.
  • servicer — someone who services
  • services — a service tree, especially Sorbus domestica.
  • sesterce — a silver coin of ancient Rome, the quarter of a denarius, equal to 2½ asses: introduced in the 3rd century b.c.
  • setscrew — a screw passing through a threaded hole in a part to tighten the contact of that part with another, as of a collar with the shaft on which it fits.
  • sherlock — a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “fair-haired.”.
  • sickener — something that sickens or disgusts.
  • sickerly — surely
  • silencer — a person or thing that silences.
  • sincerer — free of deceit, hypocrisy, or falseness; earnest: a sincere apology.
  • sinecure — an office or position requiring little or no work, especially one yielding profitable returns.
  • sixscore — one hundred and twenty
  • skerrick — a small piece or quantity; a bit: Not even a skerrick of cake was left.
  • sketcher — a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
  • skincare — use of toiletries on the skin
  • sloucher — to sit or stand with an awkward, drooping posture.
  • smoocher — to kiss.
  • snatcher — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
  • snickery — of, pertaining to, or resembling a snicker
  • sockeroo — a notable success: Her performance was a sockeroo.
  • socrates — 469?–399 b.c, Athenian philosopher.
  • softcore — of, relating to, or containing sexually arousing depictions that are not fully explicit: soft-core pornography. Compare hard-core (def 2).
  • sopheric — relating to Jewish scribes
  • sorcerer — a person who practices sorcery; black magician; wizard.
  • soricine — of or resembling the shrews.
  • 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.
  • spectrin — a rodlike structural protein of the red blood cell membrane.
  • spectro- — indicating a spectrum
  • spectrum — ZX Spectrum
  • specular — pertaining to or having the properties of a mirror.
  • spherics — Also, sferics. (used with a singular verb) a branch of meteorology in which electronic devices are used to forecast the weather and to study atmospheric conditions.
  • spiracle — a breathing hole; an opening by which a confined space has communication with the outer air; air hole.
  • spitcher — the end or finish
  • sprackle — to clamber or scramble upwards
  • sprocket — Machinery. Also called chainwheel, sprocket wheel. a toothed wheel engaging with a conveyor or power chain. one tooth of such a wheel.
  • spruance — Raymond Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1886–1969, U.S. admiral.
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