8-letter words containing p, e, s, k
- pre-soak — to soak something (such as washing) beforehand
- pusslike — resembling a puss
- sea pink — thrift (def 3).
- seaspeak — the language used by sailors to ease communication between ships
- shake up — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shake-up — a thorough change in a business, department, or the like, as by dismissals, demotions, etc.
- shunpike — a side road taken instead of a turnpike or expressway to avoid tolls or to travel at a leisurely pace.
- ski pole — a slender pole or stick, usually with a metal point at one end, a loop for the hand at the other, and a disk near the lower end to prevent its sinking into snow, used in skiing to gain momentum, maintain balance, execute certain jumps, etc.
- skipdent — an open-weave effect in fabric, produced by purposely omitting specific warp ends in the drawing-in process.
- skiplane — an airplane equipped with skis to enable it to land on and take off from snow.
- skyscape — a section or portion of the sky, usually extensive and often including part of the horizon, that may be seen from a single viewpoint.
- slowpoke — a person who makes slow progress.
- smokepot — a pot or device for producing smoke or a vapour resembling smoke
- snakepit — a pit filled with snakes
- sneakeup — a cowardly, underhanded, or sneaky person
- souplike — resembling or characteristic of soup
- spanspek — a sweet rough-skinned melon; a cantaloupe: family Cucurbitaceae
- sparkler — a person or thing that sparkles.
- sparklet — a small spark.
- sparlike — resembling a spar
- 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
- specking — a small spot differing in color or substance from that of the surface or material upon which it appears or lies: Specks of soot on the window sill.
- speckled — dotted, flecked
- 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.
- spekboom — a South African shrub
- spike up — a naillike fastener, 3 to 12 inches (7.6 to 30.5 cm) long and proportionately thicker than a common nail, for fastening together heavy timbers or railroad track.
- spikelet — a small or secondary spike in grasses; one of the flower clusters, the unit of inflorescence, consisting of two or more flowers and subtended by one or more glumes variously disposed around a common axis.
- spookery — matters relating to spies and espionage
- sprackle — to clamber or scramble upwards
- sprinkle — to scatter (a liquid, powder, etc.) in drops or particles: She sprinkled powder on the baby.
- sprocket — Machinery. Also called chainwheel, sprocket wheel. a toothed wheel engaging with a conveyor or power chain. one tooth of such a wheel.
- spruiker — to make or give a speech, especially extensively or elaborately; spiel; orate.
- stake up — to close up (or in) with a fence of stakes
- steplike — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- stoke up — to feed and tend (a fire, etc) with fuel
- unspoken — implied or understood without being spoken or uttered.
- upstroke — an upward stroke, especially of a pen or pencil, or of a piston in a vertical cylinder.
- wasplike — any of numerous social or solitary hymenopterous insects of the Vespidae, Sphecidae, and allied families, generally having a long, slender body and narrow waist and, in the female, a stinger.
- wisplike — a handful or small bundle of straw, hay, or the like.