8-letter words containing a, s, p, r
- asperity — If you say something with asperity, you say it impatiently and severely.
- aspermia — the failure to form or emit semen
- aspermic — (of a male animal) Unable to produce sperm.
- asperous — Rough, rugged, uneven.
- aspersed — Simple past tense and past participle of asperse.
- asperser — to attack with false, malicious, and damaging charges or insinuations; slander.
- aspheric — a lens that has a shape that is not completely round
- aspirant — Someone who is an aspirant to political power or to an important job has a strong desire to achieve it.
- aspirata — a heavily aspirated stop that is made without vibration of the vocal cords
- aspirate — to articulate (a stop) with some force, so that breath escapes with audible friction as the stop is released
- aspirers — to long, aim, or seek ambitiously; be eagerly desirous, especially for something great or of high value (usually followed by to, after, or an infinitive): to aspire after literary immortality; to aspire to be a doctor.
- aspiring — If you use aspiring to describe someone who is starting a particular career, you mean that they are trying to become successful in it.
- aspirins — Plural form of aspirin.
- atropism — a condition caused by using atropine over a period of time
- atropous — growing straight, without inversion
- bardship — the office or state of being a bard
- barspoon — a long-handled spoon, usually having the capacity of a teaspoon, used for mixing or measuring ingredients for alcoholic drinks.
- bepraise — to praise highly
- bespread — to cover (a surface) with something
- biparous — producing offspring in pairs
- bypasser — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- calcspar — calcite
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
- caltrops — Plural form of caltrop.
- cantrips — Plural form of cantrip.
- caprices — Plural form of caprice.
- caprines — Plural form of caprine.
- capstern — Misspelling of capstan.
- capsular — relating to or resembling a capsule
- captures — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- carpools — Plural form of carpool.
- carports — Plural form of carport.
- champers — Champers is champagne.
- chapters — Plural form of chapter.
- charpoys — Plural form of charpoy.
- clampers — Plural form of clamper.
- clappers — Plural form of clapper.
- claspers — a paired organ of male insects, used to clasp the female during copulation
- compares — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compare.
- comparsa — a song and folk dance of Cuba.
- copastor — a fellow pastor
- copperas — ferrous sulfate
- coprosma — any shrub of the Australasian rubiaceous genus Coprosma: sometimes planted for ornament
- corpsman — a medical orderly or stretcher-bearer
- cpu wars — /C-P-U worz/ A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers). This rather transparent allegory featured many references to ADVENT and the immortal line "Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!" (uttered, of course, by an IPM stormtrooper). It is alleged that the author subsequently received a letter of appreciation on IBM company stationery from the head of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratories (then, as now, one of the few islands of true hackerdom in the IBM archipelago). The lower loop of the B in the IBM logo, it is said, had been carefully whited out. See eat flaming death.
- crampons — Plural form of crampon.
- crapfest — (informal, vulgar) Something of incredibly low quality.
- crappies — Plural form of crappie.
- crashpad — a place to sleep or live temporarily
- crispate — having a curled or waved appearance