8-letter words containing a, s, p, e, r, i
- pilaster — a shallow rectangular feature projecting from a wall, having a capital and base and usually imitating the form of a column.
- pinaster — a species of pyramid-shaped pine, Pinus pinaster, growing in southern Europe and having clustered needles.
- piranesi — Giambattista [jahm-baht-tees-tah] /ˌdʒɑm bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), or Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1720–78, Italian architect and engraver.
- plaister — plaster.
- polarise — to cause polarization in.
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- pre-aids — (not in technical use) AIDS-related complex.
- primates — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- pristane — a colourless combustible liquid
- privates — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- repraise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- reprisal — (in warfare) retaliation against an enemy, for injuries received, by the infliction of equal or greater injuries.
- samphire — a European succulent plant, Crithmum maritimum, of the parsley family, having compound leaves and small, whitish flowers, growing in clefts of rock near the sea.
- sapphire — any gem variety of corundum other than the ruby, especially one of the blue varieties.
- sapremia — blood poisoning caused by the toxins produced by bacterial putrefaction, as in gangrene.
- sephardi — a Jew of Spanish, Portuguese, or North African descent
- septaria — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- seraphic — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
- seraphim — a plural of seraph.
- seraphin — a silver coin which formed the principal currency of Goa in the 16th century
- shar pei — one of a Chinese breed of large muscular dogs having a distinctive wrinkly skin covered by a fawn to dark brown smooth coat, originally developed as a guard dog.
- shar-pei — one of a Chinese breed of large muscular dogs having a distinctive wrinkly skin covered by a fawn to dark brown smooth coat, originally developed as a guard dog.
- slipware — pottery decorated with slip.
- sparerib — a cut of pork ribs with most of the meat trimmed off
- sparlike — resembling a spar
- spearing — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
- sphairee — a game resembling tennis played with wooden bats and a perforated plastic ball, devised by F. A. Beck in 1961
- spiracle — a breathing hole; an opening by which a confined space has communication with the outer air; air hole.
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- sprained — (of a joint) having been injured by a sudden twisting or wrenching of its ligaments
- tarsiped — a generic term for marsupials of the genus Tarsipes
- triphase — operating in three phases
- unpraise — to withhold praise from
- upraised — If your hand or an object is upraised, you are holding it up in the air.
- 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.
- vespiary — a nest of social wasps.
- warpwise — in a vertical direction; at right angles to the filling; lengthwise.
- wiretaps — Plural form of wiretap.