8-letter words containing a, d, p, i, s
- oppidans — Plural form of oppidan.
- padishah — (often initial capital letter) great king; emperor (a title applied especially formerly to the shah of Iran, the sultan of Turkey, and to the British sovereign as emperor in India).
- palisade — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- paludism — malaria.
- paradise — a town in N California.
- paradiso — heaven, as the final abode of the righteous.
- parishad — (in India) an assembly
- parodist — a writer of parodies, especially of a literary subject, work, or style.
- pheidias — Phidias
- pisidian — the extinct language of Pisidia, not known to be related to any other language, written in a script derived from the Greek alphabet.
- pisshead — a drunkard
- plasmoid — a section of a plasma having a characteristic shape
- plaudits — an enthusiastic expression of approval: Her portrayal of Juliet won the plaudits of the critics.
- pleiades — any of the Pleiades.
- postpaid — envelope, card: prepaid
- pre-aids — (not in technical use) AIDS-related complex.
- pyramids — Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
- sandpile — a pile of sand, esp one for children to play on
- 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.
- scaphoid — boat-shaped; navicular.
- sepaloid — resembling a sepal.
- sephardi — a Jew of Spanish, Portuguese, or North African descent
- shin pad — A shin pad is a thick piece of material that you wear inside your socks to protect the lower part of your leg when you are playing a game such as football or rugby.
- shipload — a full load for a ship.
- shipyard — a yard or enclosure in which ships are built or repaired.
- sidepath — a minor path
- soapdish — a shallow container for a bar of soap, used in a bathroom
- spadille — the highest trump in certain card games, as the queen of clubs in omber.
- spalding — Albert, 1888–1953, U.S. violinist.
- spaniard — a native or inhabitant of Spain.
- spavined — suffering from or affected with spavin.
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- spithead — a roadstead off the S coast of England between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
- spondaic — of or relating to a spondee.
- sporadic — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sprained — (of a joint) having been injured by a sudden twisting or wrenching of its ligaments
- sympodia — an axis or stem that simulates a simple stem but is made up of the bases of a number of axes that arise successively as branches, one from another, as in the grapevine.
- synapsid — a fossil reptile (of the subclass Synapsida) that exhibits some mammal-like characteristics of the skull
- tarsiped — a generic term for marsupials of the genus Tarsipes
- upraised — If your hand or an object is upraised, you are holding it up in the air.
- wardship — guardianship; custody.