8-letter words containing p, h, l, s
- slapshot — a very powerful, fast-moving shot of the puck on goal made with a full backswing of the stick and an extended follow-through.
- slipshod — careless, untidy, or slovenly: slipshod work.
- slopshop — a store at which cheap, ready-made clothing may be purchased.
- spherule — a small sphere or spherical body.
- splasher — a person or thing that splashes.
- splotchy — marked or covered with splotches.
- sulphate — A sulphate is a salt of sulphuric acid.
- sulphide — A sulphide is a compound of sulphur with some other chemical elements.
- sulphite — any salt or ester of sulphurous acid, containing the ions SO32– or HSO3– (hydrogen sulphite) or the groups –SO3 or –HSO3. The salts are usually soluble crystalline compounds
- sulphone — any of a class of organic compounds containing the divalent group –SO2 linked to two other organic groups. Certain sulphones are used in the treatment of leprosy and tuberculosis
- sulphury — of the nature of, characteristic of or resembling sulphur
- symphile — an insect or other organism that lives in the nests of social insects, esp ants and termites, and is fed and reared by the inmates
- syphilis — a chronic infectious disease, caused by a spirochete, Treponema pallidum, usually venereal in origin but often congenital, and affecting almost any organ or tissue in the body, especially the genitals, skin, mucous membranes, aorta, brain, liver, bones, and nerves.
- teleshop — to engage in teleshopping.
- thlipsis — compression or constriction by an outside cause, esp of the blood vessels or another part of the body
- unpolish — to remove polish from, to make imperfect
- whiplash — the lash of a whip.
- whipless — without a whip