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8-letter words containing s, e, n, t, r

  • strabane — a district of W Northern Ireland, in Co Tyrone. Pop: 38 565 (2003 est). Area: 862 sq km (333 sq miles)
  • 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.
  • stranded — composed of a specified number or kind of strands (usually used in combination): a five-stranded rope.
  • strander — a person who strands
  • stranger — French L'Étranger. a novel (1942) by Albert Camus.
  • strangle — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
  • strength — the quality or state of being strong; bodily or muscular power; vigor.
  • strepent — noisy
  • stricken — a past participle of strike.
  • strident — making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges.
  • strigine — of or like an owl
  • stringed — fitted with strings (often used in combination): a five-stringed banjo.
  • stringer — a person or thing that strings.
  • stronger — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
  • sturgeon — any of various large fishes of the family Acipenseridae, inhabiting fresh and salt North Temperate waters, valued for their flesh and as a source of caviar and isinglass: A. brevirostrum, of the Atlantic coast, is endangered.
  • subentry — an item shown or listed under a main entry, as in bookkeeping.
  • subtrend — the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events.
  • tartness — sharp to the taste; sour or acid: Tart apples are best for pie. Synonyms: astringent, acrid, piquant. Antonyms: sweet, sugary, bland, mellow.
  • tendrils — a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
  • tenorist — a person who sings tenor.
  • 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.
  • terminus — the end or extremity of anything.
  • ternates — an island in E Indonesia, W of Halmahera: important source of spices. 53 sq. mi. (137 sq. km).
  • test run — trial
  • the runs — diarrhoea
  • thornset — set with thorns
  • tinselry — cheap and pretentious display.
  • tongster — a tong member (a member of a Chinese secret society)
  • trainers — shoes that people wear, especially for running and other sports
  • transect — to cut across; dissect transversely.
  • transept — any major transverse part of the body of a church, usually crossing the nave, at right angles, at the entrance to the choir.
  • transfer — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • transire — a document allowing goods to pass through customs
  • transkei — a self-governing Bantu territory of South Africa on the Indian Ocean: granted independence in 1976 by South Africa, but not recognized by any other country as an independent state. 16,910 sq. mi. (43,798 sq. km). Capital: Umtata.
  • transnet — the official rail and transport service in South Africa
  • transude — to pass or ooze through pores or interstices, as a fluid.
  • transume — to make an official transcription of
  • trapnest — a nesting box that can be entered but not exited by a hen, which is then released once its eggs have been counted
  • trenches — Fortification. a long, narrow excavation in the ground, the earth from which is thrown up in front to serve as a shelter from enemy fire or attack.
  • trewsman — a Highlander
  • trueness — being in accordance with the actual state or conditions; conforming to reality or fact; not false: a true story.
  • tsarevna — a daughter of a czar.
  • turnsole — any of several plants regarded as turning with the movement of the sun.
  • tyrosine — a crystalline amino acid, HOC 6 H 4 CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, abundant in ripe cheese, that acts as a precursor of norepinephrine and dopamine. Symbol: Y. Abbreviation: Tyr;
  • underset — a current of water below the surface and flowing in a direction contrary to the water on the surface.
  • undesert — a lack of merit or worth
  • unpriest — to strip a person of the priesthood; defrock
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