8-letter words containing s, e, n, d, a
- reascend — to ascend again
- reasoned — based on reason: a carefully reasoned decision.
- redlands — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- redshank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- s-a node — sinoatrial node
- sand eel — sand lance.
- sandable — the more or less fine debris of rocks, consisting of small, loose grains, often of quartz.
- sandaled — a shoe consisting of a sole of leather or other material fastened to the foot by thongs or straps.
- sandheap — a heap of sand
- sandiver — a whitish, saline scum formed on the surface of molten glass.
- sandless — having no sand
- sandpeep — any of various small sandpipers
- sandpile — a pile of sand, esp one for children to play on
- sandshoe — a light tennis shoe; sneaker.
- sandwell — a unitary authority in central England, in West Midlands. Pop: 285 000 (2003 est). Area: 86 sq km (33 sq miles)
- sanidine — a glassy, often transparent variety of orthoclase in which sodium may replace as much as 50 percent of the potassium: forms phenocrysts in some igneous rocks.
- sardegna — a large island in the Mediterranean, W of Italy: with small nearby islands it comprises a department of Italy. 9301 sq. mi. (24,090 sq. km).
- sarpedon — a Lycian prince, son of Zeus, killed by Patroclus in the Trojan War.
- saunders — Dame Cicely. 1918–2005, British philanthropist: founded St Christopher's Hospice in 1967 for the care of the terminally ill, upon which the modern hospice movement is modelled. Her books include Living with Dying (1983)
- scan-edf — (storage, algorithm) A variation of the Scan disk aceess algorithm for use in a real-time environment where, in general, requests are served according to Earliest Deadline First. If two requests share the same deadline, they may be reorganised according to Scan. A typical example is a video server that retrieves video data from a hard disk. The playback of a video impose tight real-time constraints but if the server retrieves data once every second for each video channel, Scan-EDF can be applied, reducing the seek overhead.
- scandent — climbing, as a plant.
- sciaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Sciaenidae, a family of carnivorous fishes that produce a loud sound by snapping the muscles attached to their air bladder, comprising the croakers and drums.
- seahound — a dogfish
- seasoned — 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.
- sedation — the calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, especially by the administration of a drug.
- seedsman — a sower of seed.
- seladang — the gaur.
- sendable — to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.
- serenade — a complimentary performance of vocal or instrumental music in the open air at night, as by a lover under the window of his lady.
- serranid — any of numerous percoid fishes of the family Serranidae, living chiefly in warm seas, including the sea basses and groupers.
- sheading — any of the six subdivisions of the Isle of Man
- shedhand — a worker in a sheepshearing shed
- sheridan — Philip Henry, 1831–88, Union general in the Civil War.
- shetland — Shetland Islands.
- sideband — the band of frequencies at the sides of the carrier frequency of a modulated signal.
- sidesman — a man elected to help the parish church warden
- signaled — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
- skinhead — a baldheaded man.
- snatched — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- solander — a case for maps, plates, etc., made to resemble a book and having the front cover and fore edge hinged.
- spademan — a man who works with spade
- spaldeen — a smooth, pink rubber ball used in playing catch, stickball, etc.
- spandrel — Architecture. an area between the extradoses of two adjoining arches, or between the extrados of an arch and a perpendicular through the extrados at the springing line.
- spangled — Something that is spangled is covered with small shiny objects.
- spavined — suffering from or affected with spavin.
- spendall — a spendthrift
- sprained — (of a joint) having been injured by a sudden twisting or wrenching of its ligaments
- squander — to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away).
- steading — the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute: The nephew of the queen came in her stead.
- stendhal — (Marie Henri Beyle) 1783–1842, French novelist and critic.