8-letter words containing s, e, r, i, n, t
- reinsert — put in again
- reinsist — to be emphatic, firm, or resolute on some matter of desire, demand, intention, etc.: He insists on checking every shipment.
- reinvest — to put (money) to use, by purchase or expenditure, in something offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
- relisten — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
- resident — a person who resides in a place.
- resinata — a type of white wine from Greece
- resinate — to treat with resin, as by impregnation.
- resiting — the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment: the site of our summer cabin.
- 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.
- 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.
- rosinate — a salt or acid occurring in resin
- routines — a customary or regular course of procedure.
- 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.
- 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.
- seatrain — a ship for the transportation of loaded railroad cars.
- secretin — a polypeptide hormone, produced in the small intestine, that activates the pancreas to secrete pancreatic juice.
- senorita — a Spanish term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- sentries — a soldier stationed at a place to stand guard and prevent the passage of unauthorized persons, watch for fires, etc., especially a sentinel stationed at a pass, gate, opening in a defense work, or the like.
- serenity — the state or quality of being serene, calm, or tranquil; sereneness.
- serotine — late in occurring, developing, or flowering.
- serotiny — the quality or condition of being serotine
- servient — subordinate; subservient; subject to another
- signoret — Simone (simɔ̃), original name Simone Kaminker. 1921–85, French stage and film actress, whose films include La Ronde (1950), Casque d'Or (1952), Room at the Top (1958), and Ship of Fools (1965): married the actor and singer Yves Montand (1921–91)
- sinister — threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous: a sinister remark.
- sirvente — a medieval poem or song of heroic or satirical character, as composed by a troubadour.
- spectrin — a rodlike structural protein of the red blood cell membrane.
- spinster — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- splinter — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- sprinted — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- sprinter — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- stearine — Chemistry. any of the three glyceryl esters of stearic acid, especially C 3 H 5 (C 1 8 H 3 5 O 2) 3 , a soft, white, odorless solid found in many natural fats.
- steering — Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip: He got a good steer about finding the right job.
- sterling — of, relating to, or noting British money: The sterling equivalent is #5.50.
- sternite — a sclerite of the sternum of an insect, especially a ventral sclerite of an abdominal segment.
- stinkier — foul smelling; stinking.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.