8-letter words containing p, a, s
- diapause — a period of suspended development and growth accompanied by decreased metabolism in insects and some other animals. It is correlated with seasonal changes
- diascope — an optical projector used to display transparencies
- diaspora — the dispersion of the Jews after the Babylonian and Roman conquests of Palestine
- diaspore — a white, yellowish, or grey mineral consisting of hydrated aluminium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form, found in bauxite and corundum. Formula: AlO(OH)
- dickslap — (slang, rare) An objectionable person.
- digraphs — Plural form of digraph.
- dioptase — a mineral, hydrous copper silicate, CuSiO 3 ⋅H 2 O, occurring in emerald-green crystals.
- diphasic — having two phases; two-phase.
- diplomas — Plural form of diploma.
- disapply — (transitive, legal) To decline to apply a rule or law that previously applied.
- dishpans — Plural form of dishpan.
- dispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dispeace — an absence of peace
- displace — to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
- displant — to dislodge.
- displays — Plural form of display.
- disposal — availability for use
- dispread — to spread out
- distopia — Misspelling of dystopia.
- docusoap — a television series that chronicles the purportedly real lives of an interconnected group of people, often in a melodramatic way.
- dpsather — Data-parallel Sather. deterministic fine-grained parallelism. E-mail: <[email protected]>. ftp://lynx.csis.dit.csiro.au/p/pub/ather/dpsather.papers.
- dramshop — bar; barroom; saloon.
- dupattas — Plural form of dupatta.
- dustheap — a heap or pile of rubbish, refuse, or the like.
- dustpans — Plural form of dustpan.
- dyspathy — antipathy.
- dyspneal — Alt form dyspnoeal.
- dyspnoea — Alternative spelling of dyspnea.
- dystopia — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- eardrops — an earring with a pendant.
- earflaps — Plural form of earflap.
- earlship — earldom (def 1).
- earplugs — Plural form of earplug.
- elapsing — Present participle of elapse.
- empanels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of empanel.
- emphases — Plural form of emphasis.
- emphasis — Special importance, value, or prominence given to something.
- encarpus — a decoration of fruit or flowers on a frieze
- endplays — Plural form of endplay.
- engrasps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engrasp.
- enplanes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enplane.
- ensample — (obsolete) To exemplify, to show by example.
- epanodos — a return to main theme after a digression
- epaulets — Plural form of epaulet.
- ephesian — of or relating to Ephesus
- epiblast — The outermost layer of an embryo before it differentiates into ectoderm and mesoderm.
- epicarps — Plural form of epicarp.
- epigrams — Plural form of epigram.
- epimysia — Plural form of epimysium.
- epinasty — (botany) the downward curvature of leaves etc due to differential growth rates.