8-letter words containing a, s, p, l
- slippage — an act or instance of slipping.
- sliprail — a rail in a fence that can be slipped out of place to make an opening
- slipware — pottery decorated with slip.
- slop jar — a large jar or pail for collecting household slop for disposal.
- smallpox — an acute, highly contagious, febrile disease, caused by the variola virus, and characterized by a pustular eruption that often leaves permanent pits or scars: eradicated worldwide by vaccination programs.
- snarl up — To snarl something up means to cause problems which prevent it continuing or making progress.
- soapland — a Japanese bathhouse and brothel
- soapless — a substance used for washing and cleansing purposes, usually made by treating a fat with an alkali, as sodium or potassium hydroxide, and consisting chiefly of the sodium or potassium salts of the acids contained in the fat.
- spacelab — a manned laboratory in space, developed by the European Space Agency, carried aboard an orbiting space shuttle.
- spadeful — the amount that can be dug out with or carried on a spade.
- spadille — the highest trump in certain card games, as the queen of clubs in omber.
- spaetzle — a dish consisting of lumps or threads made from a batter of flour, milk, eggs, and salt, usually poured through a coarse colander into boiling water, and then either drained and mixed in butter, lightly pan-fried, or added to sauces, stews, etc.
- 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.
- 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.
- spangled — Something that is spangled is covered with small shiny objects.
- spangler — a person who spangles
- spanglet — a little spangle
- spanless — impossible to span
- spanrail — a rail connecting two legs of furniture; stretcher.
- spansule — a modified-release capsule of a drug
- sparable — a small nail with no head, used for fixing the soles and heels of shoes
- sparkily — in a sparky manner
- sparkler — a person or thing that sparkles.
- sparklet — a small spark.
- sparlike — resembling a spar
- sparling — the European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus.
- sparsely — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- spatfall — a mass of larvae on the sea bed
- spätlese — type of German wine, usually white
- spaulder — a pauldron, especially one for protecting only a shoulder.
- spectral — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- specular — pertaining to or having the properties of a mirror.
- 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
- spicular — relating to or characteristic of spicula
- spillage — the act or process of spilling.
- spillane — Mickey (Frank Morrison) 1918–2006, U.S. detective novelist.
- spillway — a passageway through which surplus water escapes from a reservoir, lake, or the like.
- spiracle — a breathing hole; an opening by which a confined space has communication with the outer air; air hole.
- spirilla — any of several spirally twisted, aerobic bacteria of the genus Spirillum, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans.
- spitball — a small ball or lump of chewed paper used as a missile.
- splasher — a person or thing that splashes.
- splatter — an act or instance of splattering.
- splaying — to spread out, expand, or extend.
- spoilage — the act of spoiling or the state of being spoiled.
- spoliate — to rob, plunder, or despoil