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

  • scenting — a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable: the scent of roses.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • sedation — the calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, especially by the administration of a drug.
  • sediment — the matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs.
  • sedition — incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.
  • see into — to examine or investigate
  • seething — to surge or foam as if boiling.
  • seicento — the 17th century, with reference to the Italian art or literature of that period.
  • selenite — Mineralogy. a variety of gypsum, found in transparent crystals and foliated masses.
  • semantic — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
  • seminate — disseminated; scattered; strewn
  • semitone — a pitch interval halfway between two whole tones.
  • senility — the state of being senile, especially the weakness or mental infirmity of old age.
  • sennight — a week.
  • 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.
  • sentient — having the power of perception by the senses; conscious.
  • sentinel — a person or thing that watches or stands as if watching.
  • 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.
  • sepiment — a hedge or fence that acts as a dividing line
  • 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
  • setpoint — the desired value in a closed-loop feedback system, as in regulation of temperature or pressure.
  • settling — the act of a person or thing that settles.
  • sheeting — Nautical. a rope or chain for extending the clews of a square sail along a yard. a rope for trimming a fore-and-aft sail. a rope or chain for extending the lee clew of a course.
  • shin bet — the internal security service of Israel
  • shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
  • sidenote — a note written in the margin of a page
  • 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)
  • sikeston — a city in SE Missouri.
  • silently — making no sound; quiet; still: a silent motor.
  • sinister — threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous: a sinister remark.
  • sinopite — a clay-like mineral containing iron oxides
  • siphonet — (of aphids) a small siphon on the abdomen by which an aphid emits sticky liquid
  • sirvente — a medieval poem or song of heroic or satirical character, as composed by a troubadour.
  • sisseton — a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Santee branch of the Dakota.
  • skeeting — to spit (saliva or a mouthful of other liquid) from the mouth, especially between the teeth.
  • skipdent — an open-weave effect in fabric, produced by purposely omitting specific warp ends in the drawing-in process.
  • sleeting — precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
  • smaltine — a white mineral ore of cobalt
  • smelting — to fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained.
  • snakebit — bitten by a snake.
  • snakepit — a pit filled with snakes
  • snippety — sharp or curt, especially in a supercilious or haughty way; impertinent.
  • somniate — to dream
  • sonatine — a short or simplified sonata.
  • sonicate — a thing which has been subjected to sound waves
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