8-letter words containing s, e, n, a
- pleasant — pleasing, agreeable, or enjoyable; giving pleasure: pleasant news.
- pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
- pleonasm — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- pleonast — someone who uses more words than necessary
- prenasal — a bone in the front of the nose
- pressman — a person who operates or has charge of a printing press.
- pristane — a colourless combustible liquid
- proseman — a writer of prose
- psoralen — a toxic substance, C 1 1 H 6 O 3 , found in certain plants, including parsnips, used to increase the response to ultraviolet light in the treatment of severe cases of acne and psoriasis.
- purslane — a low, trailing plant, Portulaca oleracea, having yellow flowers, used as a salad plant and potherb. Compare purslane family.
- pyranose — any monosaccharide having a pyran ring structure.
- quantise — Alternative spelling of quantize.
- questant — a person who quests
- raciness — slightly improper or indelicate; suggestive; risqué.
- ragstone — a hard sandstone or limestone, esp when used for building
- raisonne — carefully thought out, logical
- rankless — a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
- rankness — growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth: tall rank weeds.
- ransomed — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- ransomer — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- raptness — deeply engrossed or absorbed: a rapt listener.
- rashness — acting or tending to act too hastily or without due consideration.
- ratsbane — rat poison.
- ravenous — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- readings — Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquis of, 1860–1935, Lord Chief Justice of England 1913–21; viceroy of India 1921–26.
- realness — true; not merely ostensible, nominal, or apparent: the real reason for an act.
- reascend — to ascend again
- reascent — a further ascent
- reasoned — based on reason: a carefully reasoned decision.
- reassign — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- recusant — refusing to submit, comply, etc.
- redlands — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- redshank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- refasten — to fasten again
- 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.
- remnants — a remaining, usually small part, quantity, number, or the like.
- reseason — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- resinata — a type of white wine from Greece
- resinate — to treat with resin, as by impregnation.
- resonant — resounding or echoing, as sounds: the resonant thundering of cannons being fired.
- resonate — to resound.
- responsa — the branch of rabbinical literature comprised of authoritative replies in letter form made by noted rabbis or Jewish scholars to questions sent to them concerning Jewish law.
- restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
- rhamnose — deoxymannose; a deoxy hexose sugar, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , that is an important component of the polysaccharides of plant cell walls.
- roseanna — a female given name.
- rosinate — a salt or acid occurring in resin
- s-a node — sinoatrial node
- saarinen — Eero [air-oh] /ˈɛər oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1910–61, U.S. architect, born in Finland.
- safeness — secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk: a safe place.