8-letter words containing s, i, t, e
- costlier — costing much; expensive; high in price: a costly emerald bracelet; costly medical care.
- coteries — Plural form of coterie.
- cottiers — Plural form of cottier.
- counties — Plural form of county.
- craziest — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- creolist — a student of creole languages
- crepitus — a crackling chest sound heard in pneumonia and other lung diseases
- cresting — an ornamental ridge along the top of a roof, wall, etc
- crickets — Plural form of cricket.
- crispate — having a curled or waved appearance
- crispest — Superlative form of crisp.
- cristate — having a crest
- critters — Plural form of critter.
- crosstie — a sleeper between rails on a railway
- crudites — Crudités are pieces of raw vegetable, often served before a meal.
- curtises — Benjamin Robbins, 1809–74, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1851–57; resigned in dissent over Dred Scott case.
- curtsied — a respectful bow made by women and girls, consisting of bending the knees and lowering the body.
- curtsies — a respectful bow made by women and girls, consisting of bending the knees and lowering the body.
- cushiest — Superlative form of cushy.
- cuticles — Plural form of cuticle.
- cutlines — Plural form of cutline.
- cuttiest — cut short; short; stubby.
- cysteine — a sulphur-containing amino acid, present in proteins, that oxidizes on exposure to air to form cystine. Formula: HSCH2CH(NH2)COOH
- cytisine — a toxic alkaloid found in several species of plants, similar in molecular structure to nicotine
- cytosine — a white crystalline pyrimidine occurring in nucleic acids; 6-amino-2-hydroxy pyrimidine. Formula: C4H5N3O
- dainties — of delicate beauty; exquisite: a dainty lace handkerchief.
- daytimes — Plural form of daytime.
- de stijl — a group of artists and architects in the Netherlands in the 1920s, including Mondrian and van Doesburg, devoted to neoplasticism and then dada
- debitors — a debtor.
- decidest — (archaic) Archaic second-person singular form of decide.
- deficits — the amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount.
- deictics — Logic. proving directly.
- delights — Plural form of delight.
- delimits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of delimit.
- delisted — Simple past tense and past participle of delist.
- deltoids — Plural form of deltoid.
- dementis — an official denial by a government of actions, aims, etc., ascribed to it.
- demerits — Plural form of demerit.
- demisted — Simple past tense and past participle of demist.
- demister — A demister is the same as a defogger.
- demonist — A believer in, or worshipper of, demons.
- dentists — Plural form of dentist.
- deposite — Obsolete spelling of deposit.
- deposits — Plural form of deposit.
- depretis — Agostino (aɡoˈstiːno). 1813–87, Italian statesman; prime minister (1876–78; 1878–79; 1881–87). His policy led to the Triple Alliance (1882) between Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Germany
- deputies — Plural form of deputy.
- deputise — to appoint as deputy.
- descript — Archaic form of described.
- desertic — (of soil) developing in hot, dry climates
- desilted — earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.