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8-letter words containing p, a, s, n

  • spumante — Italian. any sparkling wine.
  • spunware — objects formed by spinning.
  • spunyarn — small stuff made from rope yarns twisted together
  • spyplane — a military aeroplane used to spy on an enemy
  • stamp on — tread heavily on
  • stand up — standing erect or upright, as a collar.
  • stand-up — standing erect or upright, as a collar.
  • standpat — standpatter.
  • stanhope — James, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.
  • stapling — a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
  • steapsin — the lipase present in pancreatic juice.
  • stephane — an ancient Greek headdress or crown often depicted in the statuary of various deities
  • stopbank — an embankment to prevent flooding
  • subpanel — a panel that is part of a larger panel
  • subplant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • subpoena — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
  • sun lamp — a lamp that generates ultraviolet rays, used as a therapeutic device, for obtaining an artificial suntan, etc.
  • sunspace — sunroom.
  • superfan — a very or extremely devoted fan
  • superman — a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
  • supernal — being in or belonging to the heaven of divine beings; heavenly, celestial, or divine.
  • supinate — to turn to a supine position; rotate (the hand or foot) so that the palm or sole is upward.
  • supplant — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
  • swamphen — any of several large Old World gallinules varying from purple to white, all possibly belonging to the single species Porphyrio porphyrio.
  • swamping — a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
  • swapping — to exchange, barter, or trade, as one thing for another: He swapped his wrist watch for the radio.
  • swaption — A swaption is an over-the-counter option on a swap.
  • synaphea — a continuity of rhythm throughout a poem
  • synapses — a region where nerve impulses are transmitted and received, encompassing the axon terminal of a neuron that releases neurotransmitters in response to an impulse, an extremely small gap across which the neurotransmitters travel, and the adjacent membrane of an axon, dendrite, or muscle or gland cell with the appropriate receptor molecules for picking up the neurotransmitters.
  • synapsid — a fossil reptile (of the subclass Synapsida) that exhibits some mammal-like characteristics of the skull
  • synapsis — Also called syndesis. Cell Biology. the pairing of homologous chromosomes, one from each parent, during early meiosis.
  • synaptic — Also called syndesis. Cell Biology. the pairing of homologous chromosomes, one from each parent, during early meiosis.
  • syncopal — Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
  • syngraph — a document signed by all parties
  • tailspin — spin (def 23).
  • tankship — a ship for carrying bulk cargoes of liquids; tanker.
  • tant pis — so much the worse
  • teaspoon — a small spoon generally used to stir tea, coffee, etc.
  • thespian — (often lowercase) pertaining to tragedy or to the dramatic art in general.
  • timespan — a span of time; time frame.
  • transept — any major transverse part of the body of a church, usually crossing the nave, at right angles, at the entrance to the choir.
  • tranship — transship
  • trapnest — a nesting box that can be entered but not exited by a hen, which is then released once its eggs have been counted
  • unlapsed — no longer committed to or following the tenets of a particular belief, obligation, position, etc.: a lapsed Catholic.
  • unparsed — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
  • unpassed — having completed the act of passing.
  • unphased — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
  • unpraise — to withhold praise from
  • unsapped — strong
  • unshaped — not shaped or definitely formed.
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