8-letter words containing p, d, s
- speedway — a town in central Indiana.
- spendall — a spendthrift
- spending — to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.
- speyside — the area surrounding the River Spey in E Scotland; famous for whisky distilleries.
- sphenoid — being in the shape of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- spheroid — a solid geometrical figure similar in shape to a sphere, as an ellipsoid.
- sphingid — hawk moth.
- spin-dry — to remove moisture from (laundry) by centrifugal force, as in an automatic washing machine.
- spindled — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- spindler — a person who spindles
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- spirited — pertaining to something that works by burning alcoholic spirits: a spirit stove.
- spithead — a roadstead off the S coast of England between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
- splendid — gorgeous; magnificent; sumptuous. Synonyms: luxurious, dazzling, imposing. Antonyms: squalid.
- splendor — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- spodosol — an acidic forest soil of low fertility, common to the cool, humid areas of North America and Eurasia.
- spondaic — of or relating to a spondee.
- spongoid — resembling a sponge
- 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.
- spraddle — to straddle.
- sprained — (of a joint) having been injured by a sudden twisting or wrenching of its ligaments
- sprawled — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- spreader — a person or thing that spreads.
- sprigged — a small spray of some plant with its leaves, flowers, etc.
- springed — a snare for catching small game.
- sprinted — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- spudding — Informal. a potato.
- stampede — a sudden, frenzied rush or headlong flight of a herd of frightened animals, especially cattle or horses.
- stand up — standing erect or upright, as a collar.
- stand-up — standing erect or upright, as a collar.
- standpat — standpatter.
- steepled — an ornamental construction, usually ending in a spire, erected on a roof or tower of a church, public building, etc.
- stepdame — a stepmother.
- stepford — blandly conformist and submissive
- stephead — dropline.
- stewpond — a fishpond, often located in the garden of a monastery
- stipends — a periodic payment, especially a scholarship or fellowship allowance granted to a student.
- stippled — A surface that is stippled is covered with tiny spots.
- stoppard — Tom (Thomas Straussler) born 1937, British playwright, born in the Czech Republic.
- stopword — any of a number of very commonly used words, as a, and, in, and to, that are normally excluded by computer search engines or when compiling a concordance.
- strapped — needy; wanting: The company is rather strapped for funds.
- stripped — having had a covering, clothing, equipment, or furnishings removed: trees stripped of their leaves by the storm; a stripped bed ready for clean sheets.
- stupider — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
- stupidly — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
- subdepot — a depot within a larger depot
- subduple — in the proportion or ratio of one to two
- sulphide — A sulphide is a compound of sulphur with some other chemical elements.
- sumpweed — a herbaceous, oily, annual plant, Iva annua, native to North America and once cultivated for its edible seeds
- sundrops — any of various plants of the genus Oenothera, of the evening primrose family, having flowers that bloom during the day.