8-letter words containing s, e, i, t
- satirise — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- satirize — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- sauteing — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- savviest — experienced, knowledgable, and well-informed; shrewd (often used in combination): consumers who are savvy about prices; a tech-savvy entrepreneur.
- saxatile — living or growing on or among rocks.
- saxonite — any peridotite rock composed mainly of olivine and orthopyroxene
- scanties — women's underwear
- scariest — causing fright or alarm.
- scawtite — a hydrated carbonate and silicate of calcium, Ca7Si6(CO3)O18·2H2O
- scenting — a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable: the scent of roses.
- sci-tech — combining scientific and technical features: sci-tech culture.
- scienter — a mental state in which one has knowledge that one’s action, statement, etc., is wrong, deceptive, or illegal: often used as a standard of guilt: The court found that the company had the requisite scienter for securities fraud.
- scilicet — to wit; namely.
- scituate — a town in E Massachusetts.
- sclerite — any chitinous, calcareous, or similar hard part, plate, spicule, or the like.
- scotties — Scottish terrier.
- scripted — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- scripter — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- scutiger — any species of the Scutigera genus which includes many types of centipede
- sea lift — an operation to move people, troops or goods by sea
- sea mist — a mist over or from the sea.
- sea-girt — surrounded by the sea.
- seablite — any of several halophytic herbs of the genus Suaeda, having fleshy leaves.
- seatrain — a ship for the transportation of loaded railroad cars.
- secretin — a polypeptide hormone, produced in the small intestine, that activates the pancreas to secrete pancreatic juice.
- security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
- sedation — the calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, especially by the administration of a drug.
- sedative — tending to calm or soothe.
- sediment — the matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs.
- sedition — incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.
- sedulity — sedulous quality, application, or activity; diligence.
- see into — to examine or investigate
- seedtime — the season for sowing seed.
- seething — to surge or foam as if boiling.
- seicento — the 17th century, with reference to the Italian art or literature of that period.
- selenite — Mineralogy. a variety of gypsum, found in transparent crystals and foliated masses.
- selictar — the sword-bearer of a chieftain
- selihoth — (used with a plural verb) liturgical prayers serving as expressions of repentance and pleas for God's forgiveness, recited by Jews during the period, usually beginning the preceding week, before Rosh Hashanah, during the period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and on fast days.
- semantic — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semimatt — (of a surface) midway between matt and gloss
- semimute — a person who is semi-mute
- semimute — a person who is semi-mute
- seminate — disseminated; scattered; strewn
- semiotic — of or relating to signs.
- semisoft — having a somewhat soft consistency or quality.
- semitics — a subfamily of Afroasiatic languages that includes Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Hebrew, and Phoenician.
- semitism — Semitic characteristics, especially the ways, ideas, influence, etc., of the Jewish people.
- semitist — an authority on Semitic languages, literature, etc.
- semitone — a pitch interval halfway between two whole tones.
- senility — the state of being senile, especially the weakness or mental infirmity of old age.