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8-letter words that end in an

  • rubellan — a red-coloured mineral
  • rugbeian — of or relating to Rugby School
  • ryukyuan — a native or inhabitant of Ryukyu.
  • saharian — a desert in N Africa, extending from the Atlantic to the Nile valley. About 3,500,000 sq. mi. (9,065,000 sq. km).
  • salesian — a member of the Society of St. Francis de Sales, a congregation founded in Turin in 1845 and engaged chiefly in missionary and educational work.
  • salesman — a man who sells goods, services, etc.
  • salishan — a family of American Indian languages including Coeur d'Alêne, Kalispel, and other languages of British Columbia and the northwestern U.S.
  • salopian — a county in W England. 1348 sq. mi. (3490 sq. km).
  • salt pan — an undrained natural depression, as a crater or tectonic basin, in which the evaporation of water leaves a deposit of salt.
  • san juan — an island in the central West Indies: a commonwealth associated with the U.S. 3435 sq. mi. (8895 sq. km). Capital: San Juan. Abbreviation: P.R., PR.
  • sandakan — a city in NE Sabah, in E Malaysia.
  • saucepan — a metal container of moderate depth, usually having a long handle and sometimes a cover, for stewing, boiling, etc.
  • saxonian — a state in E central Germany. 6561 sq. mi. (16,990 sq. km). Capital: Dresden.
  • scalepan — scale2 (def 2).
  • scandian — of or relating to Scandia.
  • scotsman — a person, especially a man, who is a native or inhabitant of Scotland; Scot.
  • scythian — pertaining to Scythia, its people, or their language.
  • seawoman — a woman sailor or a woman who works on a ship or in the navy
  • seedsman — a sower of seed.
  • selenian — of the moon; lunar
  • seremban — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 2580 sq. mi. (6682 sq. km). Capital: Seremban.
  • shadchan — shadkhan.
  • shadkhan — a person who arranges Jewish marriages; matchmaker.
  • shangaan — a member of any of the Tsonga-speaking Bantu peoples settled in Mozambique and NE Transvaal, esp one who works in a gold mine
  • shareman — a member of a fishing-boat crew who shares profits with the boat's owner in lieu of wages
  • shearman — a person whose occupation it is to trim or shear cloth
  • sheepman — a person engaged in the tending or breeding of sheep, especially the owner of a sheep ranch.
  • sheridan — Philip Henry, 1831–88, Union general in the Civil War.
  • shireman — a sheriff
  • shit-can — to dismiss from a job or position.
  • shoreman — a person who lives on the shore
  • shotokan — a popular system of karate based on the principles of Bushido and Zen
  • sialidan — relating to alderflies
  • siangtan — a city in E Hunan, in S China.
  • siberian — Russian Sibirʾ. an extensive region in the Russian Federation in N Asia, extending from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific.
  • sicanian — Sicilian.
  • sicilian — an island in the Mediterranean, constituting a region of Italy, and separated from the SW tip of the mainland by the Strait of Messina: largest island in the Mediterranean. 9924 sq. mi. (25,705 sq. km). Capital: Palermo.
  • sidesman — a man elected to help the parish church warden
  • sidonian — a city of ancient Phoenicia: site of modern Saida.
  • silesian — a region in central Europe along both banks of the upper Oder River, mainly in SW Poland and the N Czech Republic: formerly divided between Germany (which had the largest portion), Poland, and Czechoslovakia; by provision of the Potsdam agreement 1945, the greater part of German Silesia came under Polish administration; rich deposits of coal, iron, and other minerals.
  • silliman — Benjamin, 1779–1864, U.S. scientist and educator.
  • silurian — of or relating to the Silures or their country.
  • sirenian — an aquatic, herbivorous mammal of the order Sirenia, including the manatee and dugong.
  • skeechan — a beer of treacle and malt liquor
  • skokiaan — (in South Africa) a potent alcoholic beverage drunk by Black Africans in shebeens
  • slot man — copyeditor (def 3).
  • smyrnean — of or relating to Smyrna, Turkey.
  • sneeshan — Scots word meaning pinch of snuff
  • socinian — a follower of Faustus and Laelius Socinus who rejected a number of traditional Christian doctrines, as the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, and original sin, and who held that Christ was miraculously begotten and that salvation will be granted to those who adopt Christ's virtues.
  • solo man — an early human being of the upper Pleistocene, known from skull fragments found in Java.
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