8-letter words containing s, i, n, t, r
- sanscrit — Sanskrit
- sanskrit — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
- 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.
- santorin — Thera.
- saturnic — having or affected with lead-poisoning
- 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.
- scrutiny — a searching examination or investigation; minute inquiry.
- 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
- shirting — any shirt fabric, as broadcloth or oxford.
- shorting — having little length; not long.
- 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.
- skiatron — a cathode-ray tube used in radar
- skirting — the part of a gown, dress, slip, or coat that extends downward from the waist.
- smarting — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- smirting — the activity of flirting between smokers who are smoking cigarettes outside a no-smoking office, pub, etc
- snorting — (of animals) to force the breath violently through the nostrils with a loud, harsh sound: The spirited horse snorted and shied at the train.
- sonority — the condition or quality of being resonant or sonorous.
- sorption — the state or process of being sorbed.
- spartina — a ricegrass which grows in salt marshes
- 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.
- sporting — of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport: sport fishing.
- 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.
- starling — a pointed cluster of pilings for protecting a bridge pier from drifting ice, debris, etc.
- starring — any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- start in — to undertake (something or doing something); commence or begin
- starving — very hungry
- 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.
- stingray — any of the rays, especially of the family Dasyatidae, having a long, flexible tail armed near the base with a strong, serrated bony spine with which they can inflict painful wounds.
- stinkard — a despicable person; stinker.
- stinkier — foul smelling; stinking.
- stirling — Also called Stirlingshire [stur-ling-sheer, -sher] /ˈstɜr lɪŋˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in central Scotland.
- stirring — rousing, exciting, or thrilling: a stirring speech.
- storming — a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
- storting — the parliament of Norway, elected by popular vote, which is divided into the upper house (Lagting) comprising one quarter of the members, and the lower house (Odelsting) comprising the rest.
- strafing — an act or instance of strafing