8-letter words containing p, a, s, o
- soapwort — a plant, Saponaria officinalis, of the pink family, whose leaves are used for cleansing.
- soda pop — a carbonated, flavored, and sweetened soft drink.
- soupmeat — beef used for making soup stock.
- southpaw — a person who is left-handed.
- spa town — a town where water comes out of the ground and people come to drink it or lie in it because they think it will improve their health
- spacious — containing much space, as a house, room, or vehicle; amply large.
- spadroon — a type of sword
- spanworm — measuringworm.
- spathose — spathaceous.
- spaz out — an awkward or clumsy person.
- speak to — talk or converse with
- speakout — a firm or brave statement of one's beliefs
- spiccato — (of violin music) performed with short, abrupt, rebounding motions of the bow.
- spoilage — the act of spoiling or the state of being spoiled.
- spoliate — to rob, plunder, or despoil
- spondaic — of or relating to a spondee.
- 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
- sporadic — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sporozoa — the protist phylum (or animal class) comprising the sporozoans.
- sporular — a spore, especially a small one.
- spousage — marriage
- spray-on — applied by means of an aerosol spray
- stamp on — tread heavily on
- stanhope — James, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.
- starspot — a dark patch on the surface of a star
- stopbank — an embankment to prevent flooding
- stoppage — an act or instance of stopping; cessation of activity: the stoppage of all work at the factory.
- stoppard — Tom (Thomas Straussler) born 1937, British playwright, born in the Czech Republic.
- 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.
- subpolar — subantarctic.
- subtopia — suburban development that encroaches on rural areas yet appears to offer the attractions of country life to suburban dwellers
- supposal — the act of supposing.
- swagshop — a shop selling cheap goods
- swaption — A swaption is an over-the-counter option on a swap.
- sympodia — an axis or stem that simulates a simple stem but is made up of the bases of a number of axes that arise successively as branches, one from another, as in the grapevine.
- 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.
- taphouse — an inn or tavern where liquor for sale is kept on tap.
- tea shop — a tearoom.
- teaspoon — a small spoon generally used to stir tea, coffee, etc.
- tiraspol — a city in E Moldavia (Moldova), NW of Odessa.
- to spare — more than is required
- trappose — relating to traprock
- unsoaped — unwashed; not rubbed with soap
- utopiast — someone who seeks perfection in society
- vaporise — to cause to change into vapor.
- vaporish — of the nature of or resembling vapor: a vaporish chiffon dress.
- vaporous — having the form or characteristics of vapor: a vaporous cloud.
- wavetops — Plural form of wavetop.
- woodwasp — Any of various unrelated insects of the suborder Symphyta (the sawflies, not true wasps), whose larvae are found in wood.