8-letter words containing s, e, t
- attestor — to bear witness to; certify; declare to be correct, true, or genuine; declare the truth of, in words or writing, especially affirm in an official capacity: to attest the truth of a statement.
- audients — Plural form of audient.
- auditees — Plural form of auditee.
- augments — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of augment.
- austerer — Comparative form of austere.
- autecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- autolyse — to undergo or cause to undergo autolysis
- autosave — a function on a computer that automatically saves data at regular intervals
- autosome — any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome
- autotest — a motor race in which standard cars are driven around a racing circuit
- aversity — The state or condition of being averse.
- averstar — (company) The US software engineering company that developed Hal, under their former name, "Intermetrics". Other products include CS-4, Red, Mwave Developers Toolkit (multimedia for IBM PC), cross-compilers for C and C++; Ada '83, Ada 95, and SAMeDL. AverStar also supply client/server systems; custom software applications and turnkey systems; independent verification and validation; CAE integration technology; languages and compilers: Ada, C, C++, HDLs (MHDL), Modula, SPL/1. Address: Intermetrics, Inc., 733 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Telephone: +1 (617) 661 1840. Fax: +1 (617) 868 2843. Address: 7918 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, Va 22102, USA. Telephone: +1 (703) 827-2606. Fax: +1 (703) 827-5560. Also Houston, TX, Huntington Beach, CA, Warminster, PA, and others.
- awfulest — Superlative form of awful.
- backrest — The backrest of a seat or chair is the part which you rest your back on.
- backseat — relating to or taking place on the back seat of a vehicle
- backsets — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backset.
- balestra — a jump toward the opponent followed immediately by a lunge.
- balmiest — Superlative form of balmy.
- baluster — any of a set of posts supporting a rail or coping
- bandster — a person who goes behind a reaper and binds sheaves of wheat
- bangster — a ruffian; thug
- 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.
- bankster — a banker or investor whose financial practices have been exposed as illegal
- banquets — Plural form of banquet.
- banstead — a town in S England, in NE Surrey. Pop: 19 332 (2001)
- bantengs — Plural form of banteng.
- baptised — to immerse in water or sprinkle or pour water on in the Christian rite of baptism: They baptized the new baby.
- baptises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of baptise.
- baptizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of baptize.
- barghest — (in the North of England, esp Yorkshire) a goblin that appears in the shape of a dog as an omen of death or other misfortune
- baronets — Plural form of baronet.
- basaltes — unglazed black stoneware
- basanite — a black basaltic rock containing plagioclase, augite, olivine, and nepheline, leucite, or analcite, formerly used as a touchstone
- base hit — a play in which the batter hits a fair ball and gets on base without benefit of an opponent's error and without forcing out a runner already on base
- basecoat — a first coat of a surfacing material, as paint.
- basement — The basement of a building is a floor built partly or completely below ground level.
- bashment — (slang, countable, especially Jamaican) A party or rave.
- basilect — (in a region where creole is or has been spoken) the dialect closest to that creole and furthest removed from the most prestigious dialect (the acrolect) of the region
- basketry — Basketry is baskets made by weaving together thin strips of materials such as wood.
- basseted — an outcrop, as of the edges of strata.
- bassinet — A bassinet is a small bed for a baby that is like a basket.
- bastides — Plural form of bastide.
- bastille — a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution
- bastogne — a town in SE Belgium: of strategic importance to Allied defences during the Battle of the Bulge; besieged by the Germans during the winter of 1944–45. Pop: 14 070 (2004 est)
- bateless — not abating or not able to be abated
- bathless — without a bath
- bathorse — a horse which carries a military officer's baggage; a military packhorse
- battlers — Plural form of battler.
- bayonets — Plural form of bayonet.
- baysmelt — topsmelt.