8-letter words containing a, n, p
- 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
- spaceman — an astronaut.
- spacings — an act of someone or something that spaces.
- spademan — a man who works with spade
- spadroon — a type of sword
- spaldeen — a smooth, pink rubber ball used in playing catch, stickball, etc.
- spalding — Albert, 1888–1953, U.S. violinist.
- spalling — a chip or splinter, as of stone or ore.
- spalpeen — a lad or boy.
- spamming — (lowercase) Digital Technology. disruptive online messages, especially commercial messages posted on a computer network or sent as email (often used attributively): Install spam blocker software and keep your email spam filters updated to protect your accounts from unsolicited spam.
- span-new — brand-new.
- spandrel — Architecture. an area between the extradoses of two adjoining arches, or between the extrados of an arch and a perpendicular through the extrados at the springing line.
- spanghew — to throw into the air
- spangled — Something that is spangled is covered with small shiny objects.
- spangler — a person who spangles
- spanglet — a little spangle
- spaniard — a native or inhabitant of Spain.
- spanking — to strike (a person, usually a child) with the open hand, a slipper, etc., especially on the buttocks, as in punishment.
- spanless — impossible to span
- spanning — the distance between the tip of the thumb and the tip of the little finger when the hand is fully extended.
- spanrail — a rail connecting two legs of furniture; stretcher.
- spanspek — a sweet rough-skinned melon; a cantaloupe: family Cucurbitaceae
- spansule — a modified-release capsule of a drug
- spanworm — measuringworm.
- sparling — the European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus.
- sparring — a motion of sparring.
- spartina — a ricegrass which grows in salt marshes
- spavined — suffering from or affected with spavin.
- spawning — Zoology. the mass of eggs deposited by fishes, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, etc.
- spazzing — an awkward or clumsy person.
- speaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
- speargun — a device for shooting spears underwater
- spearing — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
- spearman — a person who is armed with or uses a spear.
- spelaean — of, relating to, or inhabiting a cave or caves.
- spellman — Francis Joseph, Cardinal, 1889–1967, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman: archbishop of New York 1939–67.
- spendall — a spendthrift
- spetsnaz — a Soviet intelligence force
- sphagnum — any soft moss of the genus Sphagnum, occurring chiefly in bogs, used for potting and packing plants, for dressing wounds, etc.
- spillane — Mickey (Frank Morrison) 1918–2006, U.S. detective novelist.
- spinachy — characteristic of spinach
- spingarn — Joel Elias, 1875–1939, U.S. literary critic, publisher, and editor.
- splaying — to spread out, expand, or extend.
- spondaic — of or relating to a spondee.
- sprained — (of a joint) having been injured by a sudden twisting or wrenching of its ligaments
- sprangle — to struggle or sprawl with limbs spread out wide
- sprauncy — smart or showy in appearance
- spray-on — applied by means of an aerosol spray
- springal — a young man
- spruance — Raymond Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1886–1969, U.S. admiral.