8-letter words containing d, e, p, s, t
- notepads — Plural form of notepad.
- outspeed — rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity: the speed of light; the speed of sound.
- outspend — to outdo in spending; spend more than: They seemed determined to outspend their neighbors.
- 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.
- pederast — a person who engages in pederasty.
- pedestal — an architectural support for a column, statue, vase, or the like.
- pestered — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- portside — situated on the port side
- postcode — an official code used by the post office, similar to the U.S. zip code, that adds numbers and letters to addresses to expedite mail delivery.
- postdate — to date (a check, invoice, letter, document) with a date later than the actual date.
- postdive — following a dive, esp a scuba dive
- postlude — a concluding piece or movement.
- potsherd — a broken pottery fragment, especially one of archaeological value.
- predates — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- prestudy — application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge, as by reading, investigation, or reflection: long hours of study.
- proudest — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
- pthreads — POSIX Threads
- reedstop — an organ stop that is made up of or that controls a rank of reed pipes
- sceptred — to give a scepter to; invest with authority.
- scripted — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- shtupped — to have sexual intercourse with.
- side pot — (in poker with table stakes) a second or subsequent pot, separate from the main pot, created when a player's entire table stake has been bet in a main pot or another side pot and other players want to continue betting.
- sidepath — a minor path
- sidestep — to step to one side.
- skipdent — an open-weave effect in fabric, produced by purposely omitting specific warp ends in the drawing-in process.
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- spirited — pertaining to something that works by burning alcoholic spirits: a spirit stove.
- spithead — a roadstead off the S coast of England between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
- sprinted — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- stampede — a sudden, frenzied rush or headlong flight of a herd of frightened animals, especially cattle or horses.
- steepled — an ornamental construction, usually ending in a spire, erected on a roof or tower of a church, public building, etc.
- stepdame — a stepmother.
- stepford — blandly conformist and submissive
- stephead — dropline.
- stewpond — a fishpond, often located in the garden of a monastery
- stipends — a periodic payment, especially a scholarship or fellowship allowance granted to a student.
- stippled — A surface that is stippled is covered with tiny spots.
- strapped — needy; wanting: The company is rather strapped for funds.
- stripped — having had a covering, clothing, equipment, or furnishings removed: trees stripped of their leaves by the storm; a stripped bed ready for clean sheets.
- stupider — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
- subdepot — a depot within a larger depot
- t-shaped — having the shape of a letter T
- tarsiped — a generic term for marsupials of the genus Tarsipes
- topsider — a light canvas shoe
- unposted — not sent by post