8-letter words containing s, e, r, i, a
- banisher — someone who or something which banishes
- banister — A banister is a rail supported by posts and fixed along the side of a staircase. The plural banisters can be used to refer to one of these rails.
- barflies — Plural form of barfly.
- baronies — Plural form of barony.
- barriers — anything built or serving to bar passage, as a railing, fence, or the like: People may pass through the barrier only when their train is announced.
- basifier — anything that makes something alkaline
- bearings — a sense of one's relative position or situation; orientation (esp in the phrases lose, get, or take one's bearings)
- bearskin — A bearskin is a tall fur hat that is worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions.
- bedrails — Plural form of bedrail.
- bepraise — to praise highly
- bestiary — a moralizing medieval collection of descriptions (and often illustrations) of real and mythical animals
- bierkase — a semisoft, strong white cow's-milk cheese that originated in Germany, and is eaten especially with beer.
- binaries — binary file
- biserial — in two rows
- boardies — a pair of board shorts
- brandeis — ˈLouis Demˌbitz (ˈdɛmˌbɪts ) ; demˈbitsˌ) 1856-1941; U.S. jurist: associate justice, Supreme Court (1916-39)
- brandise — a trivet
- brasiers — a person who makes articles of brass.
- brassier — made of or covered with brass.
- briareus — a giant with a hundred arms and fifty heads who aided Zeus and the Olympians against the Titans
- brisance — the shattering effect or power of an explosion or explosive
- brisbane — a port in E Australia, the capital of Queensland: founded in 1824 as a penal settlement; vast agricultural hinterland. Pop: 2 189 878 (2013)
- caesuric — caesural
- cairenes — (sometimes lowercase) of or relating to Cairo, Egypt.
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
- calories — Thermodynamics. Also called gram calorie, small calorie. an amount of heat exactly equal to 4.1840 joules. Abbreviation: cal. (usually initial capital letter) kilocalorie. Abbreviation: Cal.
- canaries — Plural form of canary.
- canister — A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.
- caprices — Plural form of caprice.
- caprines — Plural form of caprine.
- carbines — Plural form of carbine.
- caribees — See under Antilles.
- carioles — Plural form of cariole.
- carlisle — a city in NW England, administrative centre of Cumbria: railway and industrial centre. Pop: 71 773 (2001)
- carriers — Plural form of carrier.
- cashiers — Plural form of cashier.
- casimere — cassimere
- cassirer — Ernst (ɛrnst). 1874–1945, German neo-Kantian philosopher. The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (1923–29) analyses the symbols that underlie all manifestations, including myths and language, of human culture
- castries — the capital and chief port of St Lucia. Pop: 14 000 (2005 est)
- causerie — an informal talk or conversational piece of writing
- ceramics — the art and techniques of producing articles of clay, porcelain, etc
- ceramist — a person who works in ceramics; ceramic artist
- cesarian — Also called Cesarean section, C-section. an operation by which a fetus is taken from the uterus by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus.
- chariest — Superlative form of chary.
- charlies — a word used in communications to represent the letter C.
- chimeras — Plural form of chimera.
- cisterna — a sac or partially closed space containing body fluid, esp lymph or cerebrospinal fluid
- citrates — Plural form of citrate.