7-letter words containing s, i, r
- satyrid — Classical Mythology. one of a class of woodland deities, attendant on Bacchus, represented as part human, part horse, and sometimes part goat and noted for riotousness and lasciviousness.
- saucier — a chef or cook who specializes in making sauces.
- saurian — belonging or pertaining to the Sauria, a group of reptiles originally including the lizards, crocodiles, and several extinct forms but now technically restricted to the lizards.
- sauroid — a type of fish
- sautoir — a ribbon, chain, scarf, or the like, tied around the neck in such a manner that the ends cross over each other.
- savarin — a spongelike cake leavened with yeast, baked in a ring mold, and often soaked with a rum syrup.
- saviour — a person who saves, rescues, or delivers: the savior of the country.
- savvier — experienced, knowledgable, and well-informed; shrewd (often used in combination): consumers who are savvy about prices; a tech-savvy entrepreneur.
- scabrid — having a rough or scaly surface
- scarier — causing fright or alarm.
- scarify — to make scratches or superficial incisions in (the skin, a wound, etc.), as in vaccination.
- scarily — in a scary or frightening manner
- scaring — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- schirra — Walter Marty, Jr [mahr-tee] /ˈmɑr ti/ (Show IPA), 1923–2007, U.S. astronaut.
- sciarid — a small black-coloured fly harmful to seedlings and mushrooms
- scissor — to cut or clip out with scissors.
- sciurid — a squirrel or related rodent
- scoriae — Metallurgy. the refuse, dross, or slag left after melting or smelting metal; scum.
- scorify — to subject to scorification.
- scoring — the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
- scorpio — Astronomy. Scorpius.
- scourie — a young seagull
- scraich — to scream or screech
- scrapie — a usually fatal brain disease of sheep, characterized by twitching of the neck and head, grinding of the teeth, and scraping of itching portions of skin against fixed objects with a subsequent loss of wool: thought to be caused by an infectious prion.
- scribal — a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing.
- scribed — scriber.
- scriber — a tool for scribing wood or the like.
- scriene — a screen
- scrieve — to glide or walk along smoothly
- scrimpy — scanty; meager; barely adequate.
- scripps — Edward Wyllis [wil-is] /ˈwɪl ɪs/ (Show IPA), 1854–1926, U.S. newspaper publisher.
- scripts — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- scritch — to screech
- scrying — to use divination to discover hidden knowledge or future events, especially by means of a crystal ball.
- scurril — vulgar or indecent
- scutari — Lake, a lake between NW Albania and Montenegro. About 135 sq. mi. (350 sq. km).
- sea air — The sea air is the air at the seaside, which is regarded as being good for people's health.
- seabird — a bird frequenting the sea or coast.
- seagirt — surrounded by the sea.
- searing — to burn or char the surface of: She seared the steak to seal in the juices.
- sedarim — a plural of Seder.
- seedier — abounding in seed.
- seferis — George. pen name of Georgios Seferiades. 1900–71, Greek poet and diplomat: Nobel prize for literature 1963
- seifert — Jaroslav [yah-raw-slahf] /ˈyɑ rɔ slɑf/ (Show IPA), 1901–1986, Czech poet: Nobel prize 1984.
- seirios — Sirius (def 2).
- seisure — an act of seisin
- seizure — the act or an instance of seizing.
- selkirk — Alexander (originally Alexander Selcraig) 1676–1721, Scottish sailor marooned on a Pacific island: supposed prototype of Robinson Crusoe.
- semidry — partially or nearly dry.
- seminar — a small group of students, as in a university, engaged in advanced study and original research under a member of the faculty and meeting regularly to exchange information and hold discussions.