8-letter words containing p, a, s, e
- spangler — a person who spangles
- spanglet — a little spangle
- spanless — impossible to span
- spanspek — a sweet rough-skinned melon; a cantaloupe: family Cucurbitaceae
- spansule — a modified-release capsule of a drug
- sparable — a small nail with no head, used for fixing the soles and heels of shoes
- sparerib — a cut of pork ribs with most of the meat trimmed off
- sparkler — a person or thing that sparkles.
- sparklet — a small spark.
- sparlike — resembling a spar
- sparsely — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- spathose — spathaceous.
- spätlese — type of German wine, usually white
- spaulder — a pauldron, especially one for protecting only a shoulder.
- spavined — suffering from or affected with spavin.
- speak to — talk or converse with
- speak up — talk more loudly
- speakers — a person who speaks.
- speaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
- speakout — a firm or brave statement of one's beliefs
- speargun — a device for shooting spears underwater
- spearing — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
- spearman — a person who is armed with or uses a spear.
- speciate — to form or develop into a new biological species
- 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.
- spectate — to participate as a spectator, as at a horse race.
- spectral — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- specular — pertaining to or having the properties of a mirror.
- speedway — a town in central Indiana.
- spelaean — of, relating to, or inhabiting a cave or caves.
- spellman — Francis Joseph, Cardinal, 1889–1967, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman: archbishop of New York 1939–67.
- spendall — a spendthrift
- spermary — an organ in which spermatozoa are generated; testis.
- spetsnaz — a Soviet intelligence force
- sphairee — a game resembling tennis played with wooden bats and a perforated plastic ball, devised by F. A. Beck in 1961
- spillage — the act or process of spilling.
- spillane — Mickey (Frank Morrison) 1918–2006, U.S. detective novelist.
- spiracle — a breathing hole; an opening by which a confined space has communication with the outer air; air hole.
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- spithead — a roadstead off the S coast of England between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
- splasher — a person or thing that splashes.
- splatter — an act or instance of splattering.
- spoilage — the act of spoiling or the state of being spoiled.
- spoliate — to rob, plunder, or despoil
- sporades — two groups of Greek islands in the Aegean: the Northern Sporades, lying northeast of Euboea, and the Southern Sporades, which include the Dodecanese and lie off the SW coast of Turkey
- spousage — marriage
- sprackle — to clamber or scramble upwards
- spraddle — to straddle.
- sprained — (of a joint) having been injured by a sudden twisting or wrenching of its ligaments
- sprangle — to struggle or sprawl with limbs spread out wide