8-letter words containing a, s, p, l
- sporular — a spore, especially a small one.
- sprackle — to clamber or scramble upwards
- spraddle — to straddle.
- sprangle — to struggle or sprawl with limbs spread out wide
- 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.
- springal — a young man
- spyglass — a small telescope.
- spyplane — a military aeroplane used to spy on an enemy
- st. paul — Saint, died a.d. c67, a missionary and apostle to the gentiles: author of several of the Epistles. Compare Saul (def 2).
- stapelia — any of various plants of the genus Stapelia, of the milkweed family, native to southern Africa, having short, fleshy, leafless stems, and flowers that are oddly colored or mottled and in most species emit a fetid, carrionlike odor.
- stapling — a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
- starlisp — *LISP
- stipular — of or like a stipule or stipules
- stsc apl — Implementation of APL by Scientific Time-Sharing Corporation
- subpanel — a panel that is part of a larger panel
- subplant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- subpolar — subantarctic.
- sulphate — A sulphate is a salt of sulphuric acid.
- sun lamp — a lamp that generates ultraviolet rays, used as a therapeutic device, for obtaining an artificial suntan, etc.
- supernal — being in or belonging to the heaven of divine beings; heavenly, celestial, or divine.
- supplant — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- supplial — the act or an instance of supplying
- supposal — the act of supposing.
- symplast — the continuous system of protoplasts, linked by plasmodesmata and bounded by the cell wall
- syncopal — Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
- tailspin — spin (def 23).
- tapeless — without tape
- tieclasp — a clip, often ornamental, which holds a tie in place against a shirt
- tiraspol — a city in E Moldavia (Moldova), NW of Odessa.
- triapsal — (of a church) having three apses
- unlapsed — no longer committed to or following the tenets of a particular belief, obligation, position, etc.: a lapsed Catholic.
- vesperal — the part of an antiphonary containing the chants for vespers.
- wasplike — any of numerous social or solitary hymenopterous insects of the Vespidae, Sphecidae, and allied families, generally having a long, slender body and narrow waist and, in the female, a stinger.
- whiplash — the lash of a whip.
- zetalisp — (language) The Maclisp dialect used on the LISP Machine. The many extensions to Maclisp include vectors, closures, flavors, stack groups, locatives, and invisible pointers. Currently supported by Lisp Machines, Inc. and Symbolics.