8-letter words containing s, e, n, a, t
- sauteing — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- sauterne — a semisweet white wine of California, commonly sold as a jug wine.
- saxonite — any peridotite rock composed mainly of olivine and orthopyroxene
- scandent — climbing, as a plant.
- scantest — barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate: to do scant justice.
- scanties — women's underwear
- schantze — a pile of stones heaped to shelter soldiers from gunfire
- seafront — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- seamount — a submarine mountain rising several hundred fathoms above the floor of the sea but having its summit well below the surface of the water.
- seatrain — a ship for the transportation of loaded railroad cars.
- sedation — the calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, especially by the administration of a drug.
- segreant — (of a griffin) rampant.
- selenate — a salt or ester of selenic acid.
- semantic — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semblant — semblance
- seminate — disseminated; scattered; strewn
- 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.
- serenata — a form of secular cantata, often of a dramatic or imaginative character.
- serenate — a form of secular cantata, often of a dramatic or imaginative character.
- sergeant — Ancient Eboracum. a city in North Yorkshire, in NE England, on the Ouse: the capital of Roman Britain; cathedral.
- serjeant — a noncommissioned army officer of a rank above that of corporal.
- setenant — pair of postage stamps of different values joined together
- shea nut — the seed of the shea tree and the source of shea butter.
- sheraton — Thomas, 1751–1806, English cabinetmaker and furniture designer.
- shetland — Shetland Islands.
- slattern — a slovenly, untidy woman or girl.
- smaltine — a white mineral ore of cobalt
- snakebit — bitten by a snake.
- snakepit — a pit filled with snakes
- snatched — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- snatcher — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- somniate — to dream
- sonatine — a short or simplified sonata.
- sonicate — a thing which has been subjected to sound waves
- sortance — suitableness
- spanglet — a little spangle
- spetsnaz — a Soviet intelligence force
- spumante — Italian. any sparkling wine.
- st.-jean — Lac [lak] /lak/ (Show IPA) a lake in S central Quebec, Canada, NNW of Quebec City, drained by the Saguenay River. 387 sq. mi. (1003 sq. km).
- stagnate — to cease to run or flow, as water, air, etc.
- stancher — staunch2 .
- stanhope — James, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.
- stannate — a salt of a stannic acid.
- 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.
- stave in — to break or crush inward
- 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.