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

  • steelman — a person engaged in the steelmaking business.
  • stefanie — a female given name.
  • steinman — David Barnard, 1886–1960, U.S. civil engineer: specialist in bridge design and construction.
  • steinway — Henry Engelhard [eng-guh l-hahrd,, -hahrt] /ˈɛŋ gəlˌhɑrd,, -ˌhɑrt/ (Show IPA), (Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg) 1797–1871, U.S. piano manufacturer, born in Germany.
  • stendhal — (Marie Henri Beyle) 1783–1842, French novelist and critic.
  • stenmark — Ingemar ("Silent Swede") born 1956, Swedish Alpine skier.
  • stephane — an ancient Greek headdress or crown often depicted in the statuary of various deities
  • sternage — the stern or rear of a ship
  • sternway — Nautical. the movement of a vessel backward, or stern foremost.
  • stonecat — a yellowish-brown, freshwater catfish, Noturus flavus, of the Mississippi River valley and Great Lakes, having poisonous pectoral spines.
  • stoneham — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
  • stoneman — a stonecutter or stoneworker.
  • stonerag — a type of lichen, Parmela saxatilis, which produces a brown dye
  • storeman — a man employed to look after a storeroom
  • stovaine — a drug used for anaesthetic purposes and as a cocaine substitute
  • 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.
  • subagent — a person whose duties as an agent are delegated to him or her by another agent.
  • suivante — a lady's maid or companion, particularly in 17th century France, who was elevated among other servants and served as a confidante and particular companion for her mistress
  • sunbathe — to take a sunbath.
  • supinate — to turn to a supine position; rotate (the hand or foot) so that the palm or sole is upward.
  • svetlana — a female given name.
  • sweating — the act or process of sweating
  • sweetman — (in the Caribbean) a man kept by a woman
  • symantec — (company)   Software manufacturer of utility and development applications for Windows and Macintosh platforms. Products include ACT!, Norton Utilities, Norton AntiVirus, Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh, Symantec Cafe.
  • syntaxes — Linguistics. the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language. the study of the patterns of formation of sentences and phrases from words. the rules or patterns so studied: English syntax. a presentation of these: a syntax of English. an instance of these: the syntax of a sentence.
  • synthase — an enzyme that catalyses a process of synthesis
  • talesman — a person summoned as one of the tales.
  • taliesin — flourished a.d. c550, Welsh bard.
  • tallness — having a relatively great height; of more than average stature: a tall woman; tall grass.
  • tameness — changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated: a tame bear.
  • tanaiste — the vice-Taoiseach or deputy prime minister of the Republic of Ireland
  • tartness — sharp to the taste; sour or acid: Tart apples are best for pie. Synonyms: astringent, acrid, piquant. Antonyms: sweet, sugary, bland, mellow.
  • tashkent — a republic in S central Asia. 172,741 sq. mi. (447,400 sq. km). Capital: Tashkent.
  • tastevin — small shallow cup for wine tasting
  • tautness — tightly drawn; tense; not slack.
  • teaspoon — a small spoon generally used to stir tea, coffee, etc.
  • teniasis — infestation with tapeworms.
  • 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.
  • ternates — an island in E Indonesia, W of Halmahera: important source of spices. 53 sq. mi. (137 sq. km).
  • test ban — an agreement by nations producing nuclear weapons to refrain from testing them in the atmosphere.
  • tetanise — to induce tetanus in (a muscle).
  • thatness — the state or quality of being 'that' or having existence
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