8-letter words containing s, e, i, t
- sennight — a week.
- senorita — a Spanish term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- sentient — having the power of perception by the senses; conscious.
- sentinel — a person or thing that watches or stands as if watching.
- sentries — a soldier stationed at a place to stand guard and prevent the passage of unauthorized persons, watch for fires, etc., especially a sentinel stationed at a pass, gate, opening in a defense work, or the like.
- sepiment — a hedge or fence that acts as a dividing line
- septaria — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- septical — septic
- septimal — of or based on the number seven.
- septimus — a male given name.
- sequitur — a conclusion that follows from the premises
- serenity — the state or quality of being serene, calm, or tranquil; sereneness.
- seriatim — in a series; one after another in regular order
- sericate — sericeous; silky.
- sericite — a fine-grained variety of muscovite produced by the alteration of feldspar.
- serosity — resembling serum; of a watery nature.
- serotine — late in occurring, developing, or flowering.
- serotiny — the quality or condition of being serotine
- serratia — a genus of rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria that are saprophytic on decaying plant or animal materials.
- servient — subordinate; subservient; subject to another
- servitor — a person who is in or at the service of another; attendant.
- set sail — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
- setaside — the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
- setiform — bristle-shaped; setaceous.
- setireme — the setose, oarlike leg of an aquatic insect.
- setpoint — the desired value in a closed-loop feedback system, as in regulation of temperature or pressure.
- settling — the act of a person or thing that settles.
- severity — harshness, sternness, or rigor: Their lives were marked by severity.
- shadiest — abounding in shade; shaded: shady paths.
- shawties — a person of less than average stature (sometimes used as a disparaging and offensive term of address).
- shechita — the Jewish method of killing animals for food
- sheeting — Nautical. a rope or chain for extending the clews of a square sail along a yard. a rope for trimming a fore-and-aft sail. a rope or chain for extending the lee clew of a course.
- shehitah — the slaughtering of animals for food by a duly certified person in the manner prescribed by Jewish law.
- shemitic — a Semite.
- shiitake — a large, meaty, black or dark brown mushroom, Lentinus edodes, native to eastern Asia and frequently used in Japanese and Chinese cookery.
- shin bet — the internal security service of Israel
- shipmate — a person who serves with another on the same vessel.
- shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- shithead — a stupid, inept, unlikable, or contemptible person.
- shitless — If someone says that they are scared shitless or bored shitless, they are emphasizing that they are extremely scared or bored.
- shove it — to move along by force from behind; push.
- showtime — the time at which an entertainment is scheduled to begin.
- siberite — a violet or violet-red tourmaline, used as a gem.
- sibilate — to hiss.
- side bet — a bet made, as with another player, in addition to one's principal bet: a side bet as to which of us would draw the highest card.
- side pot — (in poker with table stakes) a second or subsequent pot, separate from the main pot, created when a player's entire table stake has been bet in a main pot or another side pot and other players want to continue betting.
- sidenote — a note written in the margin of a page
- sidepath — a minor path
- siderate — to strike violently
- siderite — Also called chalybite. a common mineral, iron carbonate, FeCO 3 , usually occurring in yellowish to deep-brown cleavable masses: a minor ore of iron.