8-letter words containing p, a, r, i
- samphire — a European succulent plant, Crithmum maritimum, of the parsley family, having compound leaves and small, whitish flowers, growing in clefts of rock near the sea.
- sapphira — a woman who, with her husband, Ananias, was struck dead for lying. Acts 5.
- sapphire — any gem variety of corundum other than the ruby, especially one of the blue varieties.
- sapremia — blood poisoning caused by the toxins produced by bacterial putrefaction, as in gangrene.
- saprobic — saprophyte.
- scarfpin — tiepin.
- scraping — an act or instance of scraping.
- sephardi — a Jew of Spanish, Portuguese, or North African descent
- septaria — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- seraphic — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
- seraphim — a plural of seraph.
- seraphin — a silver coin which formed the principal currency of Goa in the 16th century
- shar pei — one of a Chinese breed of large muscular dogs having a distinctive wrinkly skin covered by a fawn to dark brown smooth coat, originally developed as a guard dog.
- shar-pei — one of a Chinese breed of large muscular dogs having a distinctive wrinkly skin covered by a fawn to dark brown smooth coat, originally developed as a guard dog.
- sharping — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
- sharpish — If you do something sharpish, you do it quickly, without any delay.
- shipyard — a yard or enclosure in which ships are built or repaired.
- skip car — an open car for charging a blast furnace.
- sliprail — a rail in a fence that can be slipped out of place to make an opening
- slipware — pottery decorated with slip.
- spagyric — pertaining to or resembling alchemy; alchemic.
- spaniard — a native or inhabitant of Spain.
- spanrail — a rail connecting two legs of furniture; stretcher.
- sparaxis — any plant of the cormous S African genus Sparaxis, esp S. grandiflora and S. tricolor, grown for their dainty spikes of star-shaped purple, red, or orange flowers: family Iridaceae
- sparerib — a cut of pork ribs with most of the meat trimmed off
- sparkily — in a sparky manner
- sparlike — resembling a spar
- sparling — the European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus.
- sparring — a motion of sparring.
- sparsity — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- spartina — a ricegrass which grows in salt marshes
- spearing — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
- sphairee — a game resembling tennis played with wooden bats and a perforated plastic ball, devised by F. A. Beck in 1961
- spicular — relating to or characteristic of spicula
- spingarn — Joel Elias, 1875–1939, U.S. literary critic, publisher, and editor.
- spiracle — a breathing hole; an opening by which a confined space has communication with the outer air; air hole.
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- spirilla — any of several spirally twisted, aerobic bacteria of the genus Spirillum, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans.
- sporadic — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sprained — (of a joint) having been injured by a sudden twisting or wrenching of its ligaments
- springal — a young man
- starlisp — *LISP
- starship — a spaceship designed for intergalactic travel.
- stipular — of or like a stipule or stipules
- tapering — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- tapiroid — of or resembling a tapir
- 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
- 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.