8-letter words containing m, e, r, p
- scrumple — to crumple or crush (something, esp a piece of paper) or (esp of a piece of paper) to become crumpled or crushed
- sempster — a man who sews; tailor
- serapeum — a place, as a burial site, building, or group of buildings, dedicated to Serapis.
- seraphim — a plural of seraph.
- shrimper — a shrimp fisherman.
- simpered — to smile in a silly, self-conscious way.
- sopherim — scribe1 (def 3).
- spearman — a person who is armed with or uses a spear.
- specmark — (benchmark) The average of a set of floating-point and integer SPEC benchmark results. While the old average SPECmark89 has been popular with the industry and the press, SPEC has intentionally *not* defined an average "SPECmark92" over all CPU benchmarks of the 1992 suites (CINT92 and CFP92), for the following reasons: With 6 integer (CINT92) and 14 floating-point (CFP92) benchmarks, the average would be biased too much toward floating-point. Customers' workloads are different, some integer-only, some floating-point intensive, some mixed. Current processors have developed their strengths in a more diverse way (some more emphasizing integer performance, some more floating-point performance) than in 1989. Some SPECmark results are available here. See also SPECint92, SPECfp92, SPECrate_int92, SPECrate_fp92.
- spectrum — ZX Spectrum
- spermary — an organ in which spermatozoa are generated; testis.
- spermine — a polyamine, H 2 N(CH 2) 3 NH(CH 2) 4 NH(CH 2) 3 NH 2 , formed from spermidine and occurring in all cells, especially prevalent in semen, sputum, pancreatic tissue, and certain yeasts.
- spermous — of the nature of or pertaining to sperm.
- stompers — stamp (defs 1–3).
- strumpet — a prostitute; harlot.
- subprime — being of less than top quality: a subprime grade of steel.
- supermac — A general-purpose macro language, embeddable in existing languages as a run-time library.
- superman — a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- supermax — having or relating to the very highest levels of security
- supermom — a mother who successfully manages a household and cares for her children while holding a job or being active in her community.
- supremum — least upper bound.
- tamper's — a person or thing that tamps.
- tapeworm — any of various flat or tapelike worms of the class Cestoidea, lacking an alimentary canal, and parasitic when adult in the alimentary canal of humans and other vertebrates: the larval and adult stages are usually in different hosts.
- tempered — having a temper or disposition of a specified character (usually used in combination): a good-tempered child.
- temporal — of, relating to, or situated near the temple or a temporal bone.
- teraphim — small images or other things representing household gods, used among ancient Semitic peoples
- topmaker — a wool dealer who specializes in selling wool tops to spinners
- trampled — to tread or step heavily and noisily; stamp.
- tropaeum — a monument erected in ancient Greece or, especially, Rome to commemorate a military or naval victory.
- trumpery — something without use or value; rubbish; trash; worthless stuff.
- trumpets — a showy pitcher plant, Sarracenia flava, of the southeastern U.S., having prominently veined, crimson-throated, yellow-green leaves and yellow flowers from 2 to 4 inches (5.1 to 10.2 cm) wide.
- umpirage — the office or authority of an umpire.
- unprimed — of the first importance; demanding the fullest consideration: a prime requisite.
- untemper — to reverse the tempering of; to make (what was tempered) untempered; to soften (steel)
- upmarket — appealing or catering to high-income consumers; of high quality; not easily affordable or accessible: upmarket fashions.
- upstream — toward or in the higher part of a stream; against the current.
- vampires — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
- verkramp — bigoted or illiberal
- whimpers — Plural form of whimper.
- zoosperm — Botany, Mycology Archaic. zoospore.