8-letter words containing s, e, a, i, d
- schiedam — a city in SW Netherlands.
- sciaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Sciaenidae, a family of carnivorous fishes that produce a loud sound by snapping the muscles attached to their air bladder, comprising the croakers and drums.
- sea bird — a bird frequenting the sea or coast.
- sea-maid — a mermaid.
- sedation — the calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, especially by the administration of a drug.
- sedative — tending to calm or soothe.
- sedecias — Zedekiah.
- semiarid — characterized by very little annual rainfall, usually from 10 to 20 inches (25 to 50 cm): the struggle to raise vegetables in semiarid regions.
- semibald — partly bald
- semideaf — partly deaf
- semihard — partly hard; not completely hard
- sepaloid — resembling a sepal.
- sephardi — a Jew of Spanish, Portuguese, or North African descent
- serranid — any of numerous percoid fishes of the family Serranidae, living chiefly in warm seas, including the sea basses and groupers.
- sesamoid — shaped like a sesame seed, as certain small nodular bones and cartilages.
- setaside — the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
- shadiest — abounding in shade; shaded: shady paths.
- sheading — any of the six subdivisions of the Isle of Man
- sheridan — Philip Henry, 1831–88, Union general in the Civil War.
- shithead — a stupid, inept, unlikable, or contemptible person.
- sidalcea — any plant of the mostly perennial N American genus Sidalcea, related to and resembling mallow, esp S. malvaeflora, grown for its spikes of lilac, pink, or red flowers: family Malvaceae
- side arm — a weapon, as a pistol or sword, carried at the side or in the belt.
- side-way — a byway.
- sideband — the band of frequencies at the sides of the carrier frequency of a modulated signal.
- sidehead — a heading or subhead run in the margin of a book or magazine.
- sideload — to transfer software, data, etc., from one local system or device to another, typically from one's computer to a mobile device.
- sidepath — a minor path
- siderate — to strike violently
- sidereal — determined by or from the stars: sidereal time.
- sideroad — (esp in Ontario) a road, usually north-south, going at right angles to concession roads
- sidesman — a man elected to help the parish church warden
- sidewalk — a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.
- sidewall — the part of a pneumatic tire between the edge of the tread and the rim of the wheel.
- sideward — directed or moving toward one side.
- sideways — with a side foremost.
- signaled — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
- situated — Archaic. located; placed; situated.
- skinhead — a baldheaded man.
- sleazoid — a sleazy person
- slideway — an inclined surface along which something can slide.
- sodalite — a mineral, sodium aluminum silicate, Na 4 Al 3 Si 3 O 1 2 Cl, occurring massive and in crystals, usually blue in color and found in certain alkali-rich igneous rocks.
- sodamide — sodium amide.
- solidare — an old coin
- solidate — a parcel of land whose value is equal to a solidus
- soredial — pertaining to or resembling a soredium.
- spadille — the highest trump in certain card games, as the queen of clubs in omber.
- spavined — suffering from or affected with spavin.
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- spithead — a roadstead off the S coast of England between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
- sprained — (of a joint) having been injured by a sudden twisting or wrenching of its ligaments