8-letter words containing a, p, r, s, e
- sprattle — a struggle; fight.
- sprawled — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- spreader — a person or thing that spreads.
- spreathe — to chap
- spruance — Raymond Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1886–1969, U.S. admiral.
- spunware — objects formed by spinning.
- strapped — needy; wanting: The company is rather strapped for funds.
- strapper — a person or thing that straps.
- stuprate — to ravish or rape
- superadd — to add over and above; join as a further addition; add besides.
- superate — overcome; surmounted; surpassed
- superbad — exceptionally bad
- supercar — a very expensive fast or powerful car with a centrally located engine
- superfan — a very or extremely devoted fan
- supermac — A general-purpose macro language, embeddable in existing languages as a run-time library.
- superman — a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- supermax — having or relating to the very highest levels of security
- supernal — being in or belonging to the heaven of divine beings; heavenly, celestial, or divine.
- supertax — Chiefly British. a tax in addition to a normal tax, as one upon income above a certain amount.
- superzap — (tool, IBM) An IBM utility program used to quickly patch operating system or application program executable code in preference to editing the source code and recompiling. The SuperZAP program was a quick hack written by one IBM Engineer, possibly from IBM UK, in the late 1960s to directly fix executable files. He needed to fix a bug but it would have taken hours to rebuild the vast OS/360 executables. The S/360 architecture has an instruction ZAP (Zero and Add Packed) for packed decmial arithmetic, that sets the byte at a given address to a given value. Superzap used this to write data given as a string of hex digits to a given location in an executable file in a matter of seconds. Soon the IBM development labs were releasing all Programming Temporary Fixes (PTFs) to OS/360 in this form. OS/360 included a version called IMASPZAP or AMASPZAP which persisted through MVS, MVS/SP, MVS/XA, OS/390 and probably still remains in z/OS, the distant descendent of OS/360.
- tamper's — a person or thing that tamps.
- tapestry — a fabric consisting of a warp upon which colored threads are woven by hand to produce a design, often pictorial, used for wall hangings, furniture coverings, etc.
- tarsiped — a generic term for marsupials of the genus Tarsipes
- to spare — more than is required
- transept — any major transverse part of the body of a church, usually crossing the nave, at right angles, at the entrance to the choir.
- trapnest — a nesting box that can be entered but not exited by a hen, which is then released once its eggs have been counted
- trappose — relating to traprock
- trespass — Law. an unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another, committed with force or violence, actual or implied. a wrongful entry upon the lands of another. the action to recover damages for such an injury.
- triphase — operating in three phases
- unparsed — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- unpraise — to withhold praise from
- unspared — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
- upraised — If your hand or an object is upraised, you are holding it up in the air.
- upstager — someone who upstages
- upstream — toward or in the higher part of a stream; against the current.
- vampires — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
- vaporise — to cause to change into vapor.
- vesperal — the part of an antiphonary containing the chants for vespers.
- vespiary — a nest of social wasps.
- warpwise — in a vertical direction; at right angles to the filling; lengthwise.
- wiretaps — Plural form of wiretap.
- wrappers — Plural form of wrapper.
- xpercase — A structure diagram editor for developing, re-engineering, maintaining and documenting programs, developed by Siemens AG, Austria. It runs under Microsoft Windows. E-Mail: <[email protected]>.