8-letter words containing s, t, a, n, o
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- boatsman — boatman.
- bonavist — hyacinth bean.
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- botanist — A botanist is a scientist who studies plants.
- botswana — a republic in southern Africa: established as the British protectorate of Bechuanaland in 1885 as a defence against the Boers; became an independent state within the Commonwealth in 1966; consists mostly of a plateau averaging 1000 m (3300 ft), with the extensive Okavango swamps in the northwest and the Kalahari Desert in the southwest. Languages: English and Tswana. Religion: animist majority. Currency: pula. Capital: Gaborone. Pop: 2 127 825 (2013 est). Area: about 570 000 sq km (220 000 sq miles)
- camstone — a limestone used for whitening stone doorsteps and hearths
- canoeist — A canoeist is someone who is skilled at racing and performing tests of skill in a canoe.
- canonist — a specialist in canon law
- cantoris — (in antiphonal music) to be sung by the cantorial side of a choir
- capstone — one of a set of slabs on the top of a wall, building, etc
- captions — Plural form of caption.
- cartoons — Plural form of cartoon.
- castagno — Andrea del [ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), (Andrea di Bartolo di Bargilla) c1423–57, Florentine painter.
- castiron — Alternative spelling of cast iron.
- cautions — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- centavos — Plural form of centavo.
- chitosan — a polysaccharide produced from chitin
- coasting — the land next to the sea; seashore: the rocky coast of Maine.
- coatings — Plural form of coating.
- cognates — Plural form of cognate.
- cognatus — (legal) A person connected through cognation.
- congrats — congratulations
- constant — You use constant to describe something that happens all the time or is always there.
- constate — to affirm
- consulta — an official meeting or consultation
- contacts — the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.
- contains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contain.
- contessa — an Italian countess
- contrast — A contrast is a great difference between two or more things which is clear when you compare them.
- coolants — Plural form of coolant.
- corantos — Plural form of coranto.
- cosecant — (of an angle) a trigonometric function that in a right-angled triangle is the ratio of the length of the hypotenuse to that of the opposite side; the reciprocal of sine
- cranston — city in R.I.: suburb of Providence: pop. 79,000
- donatism — (Christianity) An early Christian belief which maintained that apostate priests were incapable of administering the sacraments, as opposed to the orthodox view that any sacrament administered by a properly ordained priest or bishop is valid, regardless of how sinful he is or if he has converted to another religion.
- donatist — a member of a Christian sect that developed in northern Africa in a.d. 311 and maintained that it alone constituted the whole and only true church and that baptisms and ordinations of the orthodox clergy were invalid.
- donators — to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause: to donate used clothes to the Salvation Army.
- downcast — directed downward, as the eyes.
- dystonia — abnormal tone of any tissue.
- elations — Plural form of elation.
- enations — Plural form of enation.
- endostea — Plural form of endosteum.
- eschaton — The final event in the divine plan; the end of the world.
- esthonia — Estonia
- estonian — of Estonia
- estragon — Tarragon.
- evanston — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan north of Chicago: Northwestern University (1851). Pop: 74 360 (2003 est)
- factions — Plural form of faction.
- fantoosh — pretentious; ostentatious
- fast one — a shrewd action, especially when unscrupulous or dishonest; an unfair trick, deceitful practice, dishonest dealing, etc.: He pulled a fast one on me by paying me with a worthless check.