8-letter words containing s, e, r, i, c
- sclerite — any chitinous, calcareous, or similar hard part, plate, spicule, or the like.
- scleroid — hard or indurated.
- screw-in — fitting in by being twisted
- scribble — to tear apart (wool fibers) in the first stages of carding.
- scriggle — to wriggle
- scrimper — a person who scrimps
- scripted — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- scripter — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- scroggie — having scrogs upon it
- scurried — to go or move quickly or in haste.
- scurrier — a scout
- scurries — to go or move quickly or in haste.
- scurrile — scurrilous.
- scutiger — any species of the Scutigera genus which includes many types of centipede
- secretin — a polypeptide hormone, produced in the small intestine, that activates the pancreas to secrete pancreatic juice.
- security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
- selictar — the sword-bearer of a chieftain
- semiarch — a half arch.
- seraphic — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
- sericate — sericeous; silky.
- sericite — a fine-grained variety of muscovite produced by the alteration of feldspar.
- sermonic — of, relating to, or resembling a sermon.
- servicer — someone who services
- services — a service tree, especially Sorbus domestica.
- sickener — something that sickens or disgusts.
- sickerly — surely
- silencer — a person or thing that silences.
- sincerer — free of deceit, hypocrisy, or falseness; earnest: a sincere apology.
- sinecure — an office or position requiring little or no work, especially one yielding profitable returns.
- sixscore — one hundred and twenty
- skerrick — a small piece or quantity; a bit: Not even a skerrick of cake was left.
- skincare — use of toiletries on the skin
- snickery — of, pertaining to, or resembling a snicker
- sopheric — relating to Jewish scribes
- soricine — of or resembling the shrews.
- spectrin — a rodlike structural protein of the red blood cell membrane.
- spherics — Also, sferics. (used with a singular verb) a branch of meteorology in which electronic devices are used to forecast the weather and to study atmospheric conditions.
- spiracle — a breathing hole; an opening by which a confined space has communication with the outer air; air hole.
- spitcher — the end or finish
- sterical — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- stickler — a person who insists on something unyieldingly (usually followed by for): a stickler for ceremony.
- stitcher — one complete movement of a threaded needle through a fabric or material such as to leave behind it a single loop or portion of thread, as in sewing, embroidery, or the surgical closing of wounds.
- stricken — a past participle of strike.
- strickle — a straightedge used for sweeping off heaped-up grain to the level of the rim of a measure.
- stricter — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
- suricate — a small, burrowing South African carnivore, Suricata suricatta, of a grayish color with dark bands across the back, related to the mongooses and having social behavior similar to that of prairie dogs.
- surplice — a loose-fitting, broad-sleeved white vestment, worn over the cassock by clergy and choristers.
- synergic — the interaction of elements that when combined produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of the individual elements, contributions, etc.; synergism.
- trackies — loose-fitting trousers with elasticated cuffs, designed to be worn as part of a tracksuit
- trisemic — relating to a triseme