8-letter words containing g, s, p
- kingship — the state, office, or dignity of a king.
- langspel — a long and narrow old or traditional Scandinavian stringed instrument, played with the fingers and not a bow
- lapwings — Plural form of lapwing.
- lipgloss — Alternative spelling of lip gloss.
- log ship — log chip.
- longship — a medieval ship used in northern Europe especially by the Norse, having a long, narrow, open hull, a single square sail, and a large number of oars, which provided most of the propulsion.
- longspur — any of several fringillid birds of the genus Calcarius of tundra or prairie regions of North America, characterized by a long spurlike hind claw on each foot.
- lopgrass — a species of smooth-bladed grass, Bromus mollis
- mageship — the role or office of a mage
- mappings — Plural form of mapping.
- megalops — the larval stage of marine crabs immediately prior to and resembling the adult stage.
- mpegplus — (compression, algorithm) A non-ISO standard compressed audio file format derived from MPEG-1 Layer 2.
- mugwumps — Plural form of mugwump.
- news peg — a news story that forms the basis of or justification for a feature story, editorial, political cartoon, or the like.
- openings — Plural form of opening.
- opposing — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
- paganism — pagan spirit or attitude in religious or moral questions.
- paganist — pagan spirit or attitude in religious or moral questions.
- pangless — causing no pain
- pangloss — a person who views a situation with unwarranted optimism
- parasang — an ancient Persian unit of distance, equal to about 3.5 miles (5.6 km).
- peckings — to strike or indent with the beak, as a bird does, or with some pointed instrument, especially with quick, repeated movements.
- peelings — Peelings are pieces of skin removed from vegetables and fruit.
- pelagius — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
- pelasgic — Pelasgian.
- pergamos — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- pershing — a 38-foot (12 meters) U.S. Army surface-to-surface nuclear missile with a single warhead and range of more than 1000 miles (1609 km).
- phishing — to try to obtain financial or other confidential information from Internet users, typically by sending an email that looks as if it is from a legitimate organization, usually a financial institution, but contains a link to a fake website that replicates the real one.
- phosgene — a poisonous, colorless, very volatile liquid or suffocating gas, COCl 2 , a chemical-warfare compound: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- phrasing — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- pickings — the act of a person or thing that picks.
- pignolis — pine nut (def 1).
- pigstick — to hunt for wild boar, usually on horseback and using a spear.
- pigswill — slops for feeding swine
- pilgrims — a person who journeys, especially a long distance, to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion: pilgrims to the Holy Land.
- pingrass — a geraniaceous plant, Erodium cicutarium, with fernlike leaves
- pishogue — sorcery; witchcraft; black magic.
- placings — The placings in a competition are the relative positions of the competitors at the end or at a particular stage of the competition.
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
- plugless — having no plug
- plussage — a surplus amount.
- podargus — a bird of South East Asia and Australia
- polglish — informal Polish containing a high proportion of words of English origin
- pop song — a song played by a pop group
- posingly — in a posing manner
- positing — to place, put, or set.
- posology — the branch of pharmacology dealing with the determination of dosage.
- post-bag — mailbag.
- postages — the charge for the conveyance of a letter or other matter sent by mail, usually prepaid by means of a stamp or stamps.