8-letter words containing d, e, p, s, a
- escapado — an escaped criminal
- escarped — Simple past tense and past participle of escarp.
- feldspar — any of a group of minerals, principally aluminosilicates of potassium, sodium, and calcium, characterized by two cleavages at nearly right angles: one of the most important constituents of igneous rocks.
- gapeseed — a daydream or reverie.
- heads-up — first in rank or position; chief; leading; principal: a head official.
- headship — the position of head or chief; chief authority; leadership; supremacy.
- helipads — Plural form of helipad.
- hexapods — Plural form of hexapod.
- hopheads — (slang) Plural form of hophead.
- impasted — Simple past tense and past participle of impaste.
- jeopards — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jeopard.
- kneepads — Plural form of kneepad.
- l-shaped — having the shape of the letter L
- leopards — Plural form of leopard.
- midspace — an area between two celestial objects
- misplead — To plead amiss or in a wrong manner; err in pleading.
- mudspate — mudflow.
- notepads — Plural form of notepad.
- o-shaped — resembling the rounded form of the letter O
- oldspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) standard English, in contrast to English that is overly technical, politically correct, euphemistic, etc. Compare newspeak.
- operands — Plural form of operand.
- palisade — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- paludose — growing or living in marshes
- paradise — a town in N California.
- pasadena — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- passcode — password (def 2).
- past due — payment: overdue, late
- pastored — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pastured — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pay desk — the counter in a shop where customers pay for goods
- peasecod — the pod of the pea.
- pederast — a person who engages in pederasty.
- pedestal — an architectural support for a column, statue, vase, or the like.
- persuade — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- phaedrus — flourished a.d. c40, Roman writer of fables.
- pheidias — Phidias
- pisshead — a drunkard
- pleiades — any of the Pleiades.
- postdate — to date (a check, invoice, letter, document) with a date later than the actual date.
- pre-aids — (not in technical use) AIDS-related complex.
- predates — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- pthreads — POSIX Threads
- rapeseed — the seed of the rape.
- respread — to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
- rhapsode — in ancient Greece, a person who recited rhapsodies, esp. one who recited epic poems as a profession
- sandheap — a heap of sand
- sandpeep — any of various small sandpipers
- sandpile — a pile of sand, esp one for children to play on
- sarpedon — a Lycian prince, son of Zeus, killed by Patroclus in the Trojan War.
- scorepad — a pad whose sheets are printed with headings, vertical or horizontal lines, symbols, or the like, to facilitate the recording of scores in a game, as bowling or bridge.