8-letter words containing s, t, a, n, o
- roasting — roasted: roast beef.
- romanist — Disparaging. a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
- rosinate — a salt or acid occurring in resin
- saint-lô — a department in NW France. 2476 sq. mi. (6413 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Lô.
- salmonet — a young salmon
- saltando — (of a performance with a stringed instrument) playing each note staccato by bouncing the bow on the strings.
- sanatory — favorable for health; curative; healing.
- sanction — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sand-lot — a vacant lot used by youngsters for games or sports.
- sandwort — any plant belonging to the genus Arenaria, of the pink family, having narrow leaves and clusters of usually white flowers, many of which grow in sandy soil.
- santalol — a liquid from sandalwood used in making perfume
- santiago — a republic in SW South America, on the Pacific Coast. 286,396 sq. mi. (741,765 sq. km). Capital: Santiago.
- santonin — a crystalline compound, C 1 5 H 1 8 O 3 , the active principle of santonica.
- santorin — Thera.
- saponite — a clay mineral, hydrous magnesium aluminum silicate, belonging to the montmorillonite group: found as a soft filling in rock cavities.
- satinpod — either of two European plants belonging to the genus Lunaria, of the mustard family, L. annua or L. rediviva, cultivated for their shiny flowers and large, round, flat, satiny pods.
- saxonite — any peridotite rock composed mainly of olivine and orthopyroxene
- 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.
- seafront — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- seamount — a submarine mountain rising several hundred fathoms above the floor of the sea but having its summit well below the surface of the water.
- sedation — the calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, especially by the administration of a drug.
- 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.
- sheraton — Thomas, 1751–1806, English cabinetmaker and furniture designer.
- shotokan — a popular system of karate based on the principles of Bushido and Zen
- skiatron — a cathode-ray tube used in radar
- slot man — copyeditor (def 3).
- snapshot — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
- snot rag — a handkerchief
- snot-rag — a handkerchief.
- solation — to change from a gel to a sol.
- somniate — to dream
- sonatina — a short or simplified sonata.
- sonatine — a short or simplified sonata.
- sonicate — a thing which has been subjected to sound waves
- sonorant — a voiced sound that is less sonorous than a vowel but more sonorous than a stop or fricative and that may occur as either a sonant or a consonant, as (l, r, m, n, y, w).
- sortance — suitableness
- spa town — a town where water comes out of the ground and people come to drink it or lie in it because they think it will improve their health
- staghorn — a piece of a stag's antler, especially when used to form objects, decorations, or the like.
- stallion — an uncastrated adult male horse, especially one used for breeding.
- stamp on — tread heavily on
- stand on — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- stand to — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- standoff — a standing off or apart; aloofness.
- standout — something or someone, as a person, performance, etc., remarkably superior to others: Evans was a standout in the mixed doubles.
- stanford — (Amasa) Leland, 1824–93, U.S. railroad developer, politician, and philanthropist: governor of California 1861–63; senator 1885–93.
- stanhope — James, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.
- stannous — containing tin, especially in the bivalent state.
- stanovoi — a mountain range in the E Russian Federation in Asia: a watershed between the Pacific and Arctic oceans; highest peak, 8143 feet (2480 meters).