8-letter words containing e, p, i, t, r
- spinster — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- spirelet — a small spire, as on a turret.
- spirited — pertaining to something that works by burning alcoholic spirits: a spirit stove.
- spitcher — the end or finish
- spitfire — a person, especially a girl or woman, who is of fiery temper and easily provoked to outbursts.
- splinter — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- splitter — a person or thing that splits.
- sportive — playful or frolicsome; jesting, jocose, or merry: a sportive puppy.
- sprinted — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- sprinter — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- spritzer — a tall drink made with chilled wine and soda.
- 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.
- stripper — a person who strips.
- stupider — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
- superfit — extremely fit
- superhit — an extremely popular song, film, CD, play, etc
- tapering — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- tarpeian — designating or of a cliff on the Capitoline Hill in Rome from which traitors to the state were hurled to their death
- tarsiped — a generic term for marsupials of the genus Tarsipes
- tephrite — a basaltic rock consisting essentially of pyroxene and plagioclase with nepheline or leucite.
- teraphim — small images or other things representing household gods, used among ancient Semitic peoples
- terrapin — any of several edible North American turtles of the family Emydidae, inhabiting fresh or brackish waters, especially the diamondback terrapin: some are threatened or endangered.
- tide-rip — a rip caused by conflicting tidal currents or by a tidal current crossing a rough bottom.
- tip over — to cause to assume a slanting or sloping position; incline; tilt.
- topliner — so important as to be named at or near the top of a newspaper item, advertisement, or the like: a topline actress; topline news.
- topsider — a light canvas shoe
- trapezia — Geometry. (in Euclidean geometry) any rectilinear quadrilateral plane figure not a parallelogram. a quadrilateral plane figure of which no two sides are parallel. British. trapezoid (def 1a).
- trapline — the ensnaring filament of a spider's web.
- treeship — the existence of a tree
- trephine — a small circular saw with a center pin mounted on a strong hollow metal shaft to which is attached a transverse handle: used in surgery to remove circular disks of bone from the skull.
- tripedal — having three feet.
- triphase — operating in three phases
- triphone — a group of three phonemes
- triplane — an aeroplane having three wings arranged one above the other
- triple a — anti-aircraft artillery
- triplets — three children born at the same time to the same mother
- triplite — a dark-brown, massive mineral, fluorophosphate of iron and manganese.
- trippery — like a tripper
- trippler — a horse that moves at a tripple
- triptane — a colorless liquid, C 7 H 17 , having high antiknock properties as a fuel: used chiefly as an admixture to airplane gasolines.
- triptote — a word that has only three cases
- tripwire — a wire used to set off concealed explosives, as one stretched across a footpath to be struck and activated by the foot of an enemy soldier.
- trophied — adorned with trophies.
- turnpike — a high-speed highway, especially one maintained by tolls.
- unpriest — to strip a person of the priesthood; defrock
- uplifter — a person or thing that uplifts.
- varitype — to operate a Varityper.
- whipster — (informal, dated) a scholastic often pedantic person, wise guy.
- wiretaps — Plural form of wiretap.