8-letter words containing s, e, n, t
- resonant — resounding or echoing, as sounds: the resonant thundering of cannons being fired.
- resonate — to resound.
- restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
- restring — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- restrung — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- rimstone — a calcareous deposit forming a dam at the edge or outlet of an overflowing pool of water, as in a cavern.
- ringlets — locks of hair hanging down in spiral curls
- ringster — a member of a ring, especially a political or price-fixing ring.
- rosemont — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
- rosinate — a salt or acid occurring in resin
- routines — a customary or regular course of procedure.
- rubstone — a stone, especially a whetstone, used for polishing or sharpening.
- sagenite — a variety of rutile occurring as needlelike crystals embedded in quartz.
- saginate — to fatten (livestock)
- saintess — a female saint
- salmonet — a young salmon
- saltness — the state or quality of being salt or salty.
- sanative — having the power to heal; curative.
- sanitate — to make sanitary; equip with sanitary appliances: to sanitate a new town.
- sanities — the state of being sane; soundness of mind.
- sanitise — to free from dirt, germs, etc., as by cleaning or sterilizing.
- sanitize — to free from dirt, germs, etc., as by cleaning or sterilizing.
- santa fé — a city in E Argentina.
- santarem — a city in N Brazil, on the Amazon River.
- 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.
- saponite — a clay mineral, hydrous magnesium aluminum silicate, belonging to the montmorillonite group: found as a soft filling in rock cavities.
- sarcenet — a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
- sarsenet — a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
- 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
- scentful — full of scent or odour; fragrant
- scenting — a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable: the scent of roses.
- schantze — a pile of stones heaped to shelter soldiers from gunfire
- scienter — a mental state in which one has knowledge that one’s action, statement, etc., is wrong, deceptive, or illegal: often used as a standard of guilt: The court found that the company had the requisite scienter for securities fraud.
- 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.
- sebesten — the plum-like fruit of a tree of the genus Cordia (formerly Sebestena)
- secodont — (of animals) having teeth with sharp cutting edges
- secretin — a polypeptide hormone, produced in the small intestine, that activates the pancreas to secrete pancreatic juice.
- sedation — the calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, especially by the administration of a drug.
- sederunt — a prolonged discussion or session for discussion.
- sediment — the matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs.
- sedition — incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.
- see into — to examine or investigate
- seething — to surge or foam as if boiling.