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8-letter words containing s, e, n, a, r, i

  • pertains — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
  • pinaster — a species of pyramid-shaped pine, Pinus pinaster, growing in southern Europe and having clustered needles.
  • piranesi — Giambattista [jahm-baht-tees-tah] /ˌdʒɑm bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), or Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1720–78, Italian architect and engraver.
  • pristane — a colourless combustible liquid
  • raciness — slightly improper or indelicate; suggestive; risqué.
  • raisonne — carefully thought out, logical
  • readings — Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquis of, 1860–1935, Lord Chief Justice of England 1913–21; viceroy of India 1921–26.
  • reassign — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
  • refrains — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
  • reinsman — a person who rides or drives horses, especially a skillful one, as a jockey or harness driver.
  • resinata — a type of white wine from Greece
  • resinate — to treat with resin, as by impregnation.
  • restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
  • rosinate — a salt or acid occurring in resin
  • saarinen — Eero [air-oh] /ˈɛər oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1910–61, U.S. architect, born in Finland.
  • salering — an enclosed area for livestock at market
  • salinger — J(erome) D(avid) 1971–2010, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
  • sandiver — a whitish, saline scum formed on the surface of molten glass.
  • sanglier — a closely woven fabric made of mohair or worsted, constructed in plain weave, and finished to simulate the coat of a boar.
  • santeria — (sometimes lowercase) a religion merging the worship of Yoruba deities with veneration of Roman Catholic saints: practiced in Cuba and spread to other parts of the Caribbean and to the U.S. by Cuban emigrés.
  • sarcinae — any of several spherical, saprophytic bacteria of the genus Sarcina, having a cuboidal cell arrangement.
  • scenario — an outline of the plot of a dramatic work, giving particulars as to the scenes, characters, situations, etc.
  • seatrain — a ship for the transportation of loaded railroad cars.
  • seminary — a special school providing education in theology, religious history, etc., primarily to prepare students for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate.
  • senarius — a Latin verse of six feet, especially an iambic trimeter.
  • 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.
  • sensoria — a part of the brain or the brain itself regarded as the seat of sensation.
  • seraphin — a silver coin which formed the principal currency of Goa in the 16th century
  • serranid — any of numerous percoid fishes of the family Serranidae, living chiefly in warm seas, including the sea basses and groupers.
  • share in — receive part of
  • shearing — Usually, shears. (sometimes used with a singular verb) scissors of large size (usually used with pair of). any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that resemble or suggest those of scissors.
  • sheridan — Philip Henry, 1831–88, Union general in the Civil War.
  • sherwani — a long coat closed up to the neck, worn by men in India
  • shireman — a sheriff
  • siberian — Russian Sibirʾ. an extensive region in the Russian Federation in N Asia, extending from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific.
  • sirenian — an aquatic, herbivorous mammal of the order Sirenia, including the manatee and dugong.
  • skincare — use of toiletries on the skin
  • snailery — a place where snails are bred
  • spearing — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
  • sprained — (of a joint) having been injured by a sudden twisting or wrenching of its ligaments
  • 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.
  • strained — affected or produced by effort; not natural or spontaneous; forced: strained hospitality.
  • strainer — a person or thing that strains.
  • straiten — to put into difficulties, especially financial ones: His obligations had straitened him.
  • sumerian — of or relating to Sumer, its people, or their language.
  • suriname — a republic on the NE coast of South America: formerly a territory of the Netherlands; gained independence 1975. 60,230 sq. mi. (155,995 sq. km). Capital: Paramaribo.
  • suzerain — a sovereign or a state exercising political control over a dependent state.
  • swear in — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
  • teresian — a member of the reformed order of barefooted Carmelites, founded in Spain in 1562.
  • teresina — a state in NE Brazil. 96,860 sq. mi. (250,870 sq. km). Capital: Teresina.
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