8-letter words containing s, n, a, t, c
- fanciest — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
- fasnacht — a deep-fried raised doughnut; originally served on Shrove Tuesday as the last sweet treat before Lent.
- fractons — Plural form of fracton.
- hindcast — to test (a mathematical model) by observing whether it would have correctly predicted a historical event
- infarcts — Plural form of infarct.
- infracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infract.
- insectan — Of or relating to insects.
- instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- instancy — quality of being instant; urgency; pressing nature.
- lactones — Plural form of lactone.
- lunatics — Plural form of lunatic.
- monastic — of or relating to monasteries: a monastic library.
- muntjacs — Plural form of muntjac.
- nautches — Plural form of nautch.
- netbacks — Plural form of netback.
- netscape — 1. Netscape Navigator. 2. Netscape Communications Corporation.
- newscast — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
- notecase — billfold.
- nut case — a deranged person; lunatic.
- octagons — Plural form of octagon.
- opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
- oscitant — yawning, as with drowsiness; gaping.
- osculant — united by certain common characteristics.
- ostracon — (in ancient Greece) a potsherd, especially one used as a ballot on which the name of a person voted to be ostracized was inscribed.
- panstick — a cosmetic in stick form
- pastance — an activity that passes time; recreation
- pet scan — an image obtained by positron emission tomography, using a PET scanner.
- quantics — Plural form of quantic.
- reascent — a further ascent
- recusant — refusing to submit, comply, etc.
- sanctify — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- sanction — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sanctity — holiness, saintliness, or godliness.
- sanscrit — Sanskrit
- santalic — of sandalwood
- sarcenet — a fine, soft fabric, often of silk, made in plain or twill weave and used especially for linings.
- saturnic — having or affected with lead-poisoning
- scandent — climbing, as a plant.
- scantest — barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate: to do scant justice.
- scanties — women's underwear
- scantily — scant in amount, quantity, etc.; barely sufficient.
- scantity — the quality of being scant or scarce
- scathing — bitterly severe, as a remark: a scathing review of the play.
- scatting — to sing by making full or partial use of the technique of scat singing.
- schantze — a pile of stones heaped to shelter soldiers from gunfire
- scotland — a division of the United Kingdom in the N part of Great Britain. 30,412 sq. mi. (78,772 sq. km). Capital: Edinburgh.
- scotsman — a person, especially a man, who is a native or inhabitant of Scotland; Scot.
- scranton — William Warren, 1917–2011, U.S. politician.
- scythian — pertaining to Scythia, its people, or their language.
- semantic — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.