8-letter words containing s, t, e, r
- aristate — Botany. having aristae; awned.
- aristide — Jean-Bertrand, born 1953, Haitian priest and political leader: first democratically elected president, 1991, 1994–96, 2001–04.
- armrests — Plural form of armrest.
- arrested — to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant; take into custody: The police arrested the burglar.
- arrestee — a person who is under arrest
- arrester — a person who arrests
- arrestor — Also, arrestor. a person or thing that arrests.
- arsenate — a salt or ester of arsenic acid, esp a salt containing the ion A5O43–
- arsenite — a salt or ester of arsenous acid, esp a salt containing the ion A5O33–
- arteries — Anatomy. a blood vessel that conveys blood from the heart to any part of the body.
- artesian — noting, pertaining to, or characteristic of an artesian well.
- arthouse — a cinema which specializes in showing films which are not part of the commercial mainstream
- articles — legal training
- artiness — The quality of being arty.
- artistes — Plural form of artiste.
- artspeak — (language) An early simple language for plotter graphics.
- asherite — a member of the tribe of Asher.
- asperate — (of plant parts) having a rough surface due to a covering of short stiff hairs
- asperity — If you say something with asperity, you say it impatiently and severely.
- aspirate — to articulate (a stop) with some force, so that breath escapes with audible friction as the stop is released
- assenter — a person who agrees or complies
- assentor — any of the eight voters legally required to endorse the nomination of a candidate in a parliamentary or local election in addition to the nominator and seconder
- asserted — resting on a statement or claim unsupported by evidence or proof; alleged: The asserted value of the property was twice the amount anyone offered.
- asserter — One who makes an assertion.
- assertor — One who asserts or avers.
- assister — One who assists; an assistant or helper.
- assorted — A group of assorted things is a group of similar things that are of different sizes or colours or have different qualities.
- assorter — to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
- asterion — (anatomy) The point on the side of the skull corresponding to the posterior end of the parietomastoid suture.
- asterisk — An asterisk is the sign *. It is used especially to indicate that there is further information about something in another part of the text.
- asterism — three asterisks arranged in a triangle (⁂ or ), to draw attention to the text that follows
- asternal — not connected or joined to the sternum
- asteroid — An asteroid is one of the very small planets that move around the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
- astringe — to contract or become contracted
- ateliers — Plural form of atelier.
- atomiser — Modern commonwealth spelling of 'atomizer'.
- attester — to bear witness to; certify; declare to be correct, true, or genuine; declare the truth of, in words or writing, especially affirm in an official capacity: to attest the truth of a statement.
- attestor — to bear witness to; certify; declare to be correct, true, or genuine; declare the truth of, in words or writing, especially affirm in an official capacity: to attest the truth of a statement.
- austerer — Comparative form of austere.
- aversity — The state or condition of being averse.
- averstar — (company) The US software engineering company that developed Hal, under their former name, "Intermetrics". Other products include CS-4, Red, Mwave Developers Toolkit (multimedia for IBM PC), cross-compilers for C and C++; Ada '83, Ada 95, and SAMeDL. AverStar also supply client/server systems; custom software applications and turnkey systems; independent verification and validation; CAE integration technology; languages and compilers: Ada, C, C++, HDLs (MHDL), Modula, SPL/1. Address: Intermetrics, Inc., 733 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Telephone: +1 (617) 661 1840. Fax: +1 (617) 868 2843. Address: 7918 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, Va 22102, USA. Telephone: +1 (703) 827-2606. Fax: +1 (703) 827-5560. Also Houston, TX, Huntington Beach, CA, Warminster, PA, and others.
- backrest — The backrest of a seat or chair is the part which you rest your back on.
- balestra — a jump toward the opponent followed immediately by a lunge.
- baluster — any of a set of posts supporting a rail or coping
- bandster — a person who goes behind a reaper and binds sheaves of wheat
- bangster — a ruffian; thug
- banister — A banister is a rail supported by posts and fixed along the side of a staircase. The plural banisters can be used to refer to one of these rails.
- bankster — a banker or investor whose financial practices have been exposed as illegal
- barghest — (in the North of England, esp Yorkshire) a goblin that appears in the shape of a dog as an omen of death or other misfortune
- baronets — Plural form of baronet.