8-letter words containing s, e, i, t
- solitude — the state of being or living alone; seclusion: to enjoy one's solitude.
- solstice — Astronomy. either of the two times a year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator: about June 21, when the sun reaches its northernmost point on the celestial sphere, or about December 22, when it reaches its southernmost point. Compare summer solstice, winter solstice. either of the two points in the ecliptic farthest from the equator.
- solutive — a solvent or laxative
- sometime — at some indefinite or indeterminate point of time: He will arrive sometime next week.
- somniate — to dream
- sonatine — a short or simplified sonata.
- sonicate — a thing which has been subjected to sound waves
- sorptive — the state or process of being sorbed.
- sorriest — feeling regret, compunction, sympathy, pity, etc.: to be sorry to leave one's friends; to be sorry for a remark; to be sorry for someone in trouble.
- soterial — relating to salvation
- soutpiel — an English-speaking South African
- sovietic — relating to the Soviet Union
- speciate — to form or develop into a new biological species
- spectrin — a rodlike structural protein of the red blood cell membrane.
- spenting — simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- spikelet — a small or secondary spike in grasses; one of the flower clusters, the unit of inflorescence, consisting of two or more flowers and subtended by one or more glumes variously disposed around a common axis.
- spinster — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- spintext — a preacher
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- spirelet — a small spire, as on a turret.
- spirited — pertaining to something that works by burning alcoholic spirits: a spirit stove.
- spitcher — the end or finish
- spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- spitfire — a person, especially a girl or woman, who is of fiery temper and easily provoked to outbursts.
- spithead — a roadstead off the S coast of England between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
- splinter — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- splitter — a person or thing that splits.
- spoliate — to rob, plunder, or despoil
- sportive — playful or frolicsome; jesting, jocose, or merry: a sportive puppy.
- sprinted — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- sprinter — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- spritzer — a tall drink made with chilled wine and soda.
- squinted — to look with the eyes partly closed.
- squirted — to eject liquid in a jet from a narrow orifice: The hose squirted all over us.
- squirter — to eject liquid in a jet from a narrow orifice: The hose squirted all over us.
- stannite — a mineral, iron-black to steel-gray in color, with a metallic luster, copper iron tin sulfide, Cu 2 FeSnS 4 : an ore of tin.
- stapelia — any of various plants of the genus Stapelia, of the milkweed family, native to southern Africa, having short, fleshy, leafless stems, and flowers that are oddly colored or mottled and in most species emit a fetid, carrionlike odor.
- starlike — of the shape of or like a star.
- stave in — to break or crush inward
- steadily — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
- steading — the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute: The nephew of the queen came in her stead.
- stealing — Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- steaming — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- steapsin — the lipase present in pancreatic juice.
- stearine — Chemistry. any of the three glyceryl esters of stearic acid, especially C 3 H 5 (C 1 8 H 3 5 O 2) 3 , a soft, white, odorless solid found in many natural fats.
- steatite — soapstone.
- steelier — consisting or made of steel.
- steeling — any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- steeping — to soak in water or other liquid, as to soften, cleanse, or extract some constituent: to steep tea in boiling-hot water; to steep reeds for basket weaving.
- steepish — somewhat or a little steep