8-letter words containing s, e, i, t
- sidestep — to step to one side.
- sightsee — to go about seeing places and things of interest: In Rome, we only had two days to sightsee.
- signoret — Simone (simɔ̃), original name Simone Kaminker. 1921–85, French stage and film actress, whose films include La Ronde (1950), Casque d'Or (1952), Room at the Top (1958), and Ship of Fools (1965): married the actor and singer Yves Montand (1921–91)
- sikeston — a city in SE Missouri.
- silently — making no sound; quiet; still: a silent motor.
- silicate — Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.
- silliest — weak-minded or lacking good sense; stupid or foolish: a silly writer.
- sillitoe — Alan. 1928–2010, British novelist. His best-known works include Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1959)
- simplest — easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools.
- simulate — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- sinister — threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous: a sinister remark.
- sinopite — a clay-like mineral containing iron oxides
- siphonet — (of aphids) a small siphon on the abdomen by which an aphid emits sticky liquid
- sirvente — a medieval poem or song of heroic or satirical character, as composed by a troubadour.
- siscowet — a variety of lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush siscowet, inhabiting the deeper waters of Lake Superior.
- sisseton — a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Santee branch of the Dakota.
- sisterly — of, like, or befitting a sister: sisterly affection.
- sit over — to be seated in an advantageous position on the left of (the player)
- site map — A site map is a plan of a website showing what is on it and providing links to the different sections.
- sitkamer — a sitting room; lounge
- situated — Archaic. located; placed; situated.
- sixtieth — next after the fifty-ninth; being the ordinal number for 60.
- skeeting — to spit (saliva or a mouthful of other liquid) from the mouth, especially between the teeth.
- skipdent — an open-weave effect in fabric, produced by purposely omitting specific warp ends in the drawing-in process.
- skittery — skittish.
- skittles — skittles, (used with a singular verb) ninepins in which a wooden ball or disk is used to knock down the pins.
- skywrite — to engage in skywriting.
- slaister — a sloppy mess
- sleeting — precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- slickest — smooth and glossy; sleek.
- slighted — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
- slithery — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- slitless — without an opening or slit, esp. in spectroscopy, having no slit for admitting light
- slitlike — to cut apart or open along a line; make a long cut, fissure, or opening in.
- sluttier — of, resembling, or characteristic of a slut: slutty behavior.
- smaltine — a white mineral ore of cobalt
- smaltite — a mineral, originally thought to have been a diarsenide of cobalt, CoAs 2 , but which is actually a skutterudite rich in cobalt.
- smectite — montmorillonite.
- smelting — to fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained.
- smithery — the work, craft, or workshop of a smith.
- smoothie — a person who has a winningly polished manner: He's such a smoothie he could charm the stripes off a tiger.
- snakebit — bitten by a snake.
- snakepit — a pit filled with snakes
- snippety — sharp or curt, especially in a supercilious or haughty way; impertinent.
- so be it — expressing acceptance of a situation
- sobriety — the state or quality of being sober.
- societal — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- 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.
- sodomite — an inhabitant of Sodom.
- solidate — a parcel of land whose value is equal to a solidus