8-letter words containing s, t, a, l
- stsc apl — Implementation of APL by Scientific Time-Sharing Corporation
- stunsail — studdingsail.
- subadult — having attained full size and strength; grown up; mature: an adult person, animal, or plant.
- subplant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- subtalar — beneath the ankle bone
- subtidal — of or relating to, inhabiting or existing in the region below the level of low tide, that is always underwater
- subtotal — the sum or total of a part of a group or column of figures, as in an accounting statement.
- subulate — slender, somewhat cylindrical, and tapering to a point; awl-shaped.
- sufflate — to inflate.
- suitable — such as to suit; appropriate; fitting; becoming.
- suitably — such as to suit; appropriate; fitting; becoming.
- sulphate — A sulphate is a salt of sulphuric acid.
- sultanic — the sovereign of an Islamic country.
- supplant — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- sutorial — relating to sewing or cobbling
- svetlana — a female given name.
- sylvatic — sylvan.
- symplast — the continuous system of protoplasts, linked by plasmodesmata and bounded by the cell wall
- tackless — a short, sharp-pointed nail, usually with a flat, broad head.
- tactless — lacking tact; showing no tact; undiplomatic; offendingly blunt: a tactless remark.
- tag sale — garage sale.
- tailings — the part of a projecting stone or brick tailed or inserted in a wall.
- tailless — the limitation of an estate to a person and the person’s heirs or some particular class of such heirs.
- tailor's — a shop where clothes can be repaired or altered
- tailskid — a runner under the tail of an airplane.
- tailspin — spin (def 23).
- talassio — a god invoked at ancient Roman weddings, especially in epithalamions.
- talesman — a person summoned as one of the tales.
- taliesin — flourished a.d. c550, Welsh bard.
- talisman — a stone, ring, or other object, engraved with figures or characters supposed to possess occult powers and worn as an amulet or charm.
- talkfest — a lengthy conversation, discussion, or debate.
- tallises — a shawllike garment of wool, silk, or the like, with fringes, or zizith, at the four corners, worn around the shoulders by Orthodox and Conservative (sometimes also Reform) Jews, as during the morning service.
- tallness — having a relatively great height; of more than average stature: a tall woman; tall grass.
- tameless — untamed or untamable.
- tantalus — Classical Mythology. a Phrygian king who was condemned to remain in Tartarus, chin deep in water, with fruit-laden branches hanging above his head: whenever he tried to drink or eat, the water and fruit receded out of reach.
- tapeless — without tape
- tashlikh — a Jewish rite, performed on the afternoon usually of the first day of Rosh Hashanah, in which the participants symbolically cast off their sins by gathering along the banks of a river, stream, or the like and reciting prayers of repentance.
- taskless — a definite piece of work assigned to, falling to, or expected of a person; duty.
- tasseled — a pendent ornament consisting commonly of a bunch of threads, small cords, or other strands hanging from a roundish knob or head, used on clothing, in jewelry, on curtains, etc.
- tastable — to try or test the flavor or quality of (something) by taking some into the mouth: to taste food.
- tasteful — having, displaying, or in accordance with good taste: tasteful clothing; a tasteful room.
- tax loss — a loss sustained by a company that can be set against future profits for tax purposes
- tax sale — the sale of real property, as land, usually at auction by a public authority, in order to pay delinquent taxes assessed upon its owner.
- taxables — people, income, property, etc, that is subject to tax
- tearless — not weeping or shedding tears.
- teasable — to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
- teasdale — Sara, 1884–1933, U.S. poet.
- telecast — a television broadcast.
- tessella — a very small square tile of stone, glass, etc, used in mosaics, and smaller than a tessera
- testable — the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.