8-Letter Words Starting S & Ending NE

• a herbicide used to control weeds (especially among crops)

• A linear triterpene hydrocarbon found in shark liver oil and in human sebum; it plays a role in the biosynthesis of steroids.

• A tree, mentioned in Luke's Gospel, and thought to be the black mulberry.

• any of a large class of compounds that have alternate silicon and oxygen atoms

• the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle

• A concave-upward fold in rock strata

• Any of a class of organic compounds that have a sulfonyl functional group attached to two carbon atoms; drugs of this structure have been used to treat leprosy.

• A polyamine, N,N'-bis(3-aminopropyl) butane-1,4-diamine, originally extracted from sperm, that is involved in cellular metabolism