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8-letter words containing p, i, u, s

  • puristic — strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
  • puritans — a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
  • purities — the condition or quality of being pure; freedom from anything that debases, contaminates, pollutes, etc.: the purity of drinking water.
  • purlieus — purlieus, environs or neighborhood.
  • purplish — of or having a somewhat purple hue.
  • pursuing — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
  • purtiest — pretty.
  • puseyism — Tractarianism.
  • pusslike — resembling a puss
  • put wise — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
  • quippish — involving or characterized by quips
  • quipster — a person who frequently makes quips.
  • rasputin — Grigori Efimovich [gri-gawr-ee i-fee-muh-vich;; Russian gryi-gaw-ryee yi-fyee-muh-vyich] /grɪˈgɔr i ɪˈfi mə vɪtʃ;; Russian gryɪˈgɔ ryi yɪˈfyi mə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1916, Siberian peasant monk who was very influential at the court of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra.
  • resupine — lying on the back; supine.
  • rhizopus — any zygomycetous fungus of the genus Rhizopus, esp R. nigricans, a bread mould
  • sapucaia — a Brazilian tree of the genus Lecythis
  • scorpius — a large zodiacal constellation lying between Libra and Sagittarius and crossed by the Milky Way. It contains the first magnitude star Antares
  • sculping — the act of cutting the skin and its adhering fat from the body of a seal.
  • sculpsit — he engraved, carved, or sculptured (it); she engraved, carved, or sculptured (it). Abbreviation: sc.
  • seize up — to take hold of suddenly or forcibly; grasp: to seize a weapon.
  • septimus — a male given name.
  • serpulid — a marine polychaete worm of the family Serpulidae, which constructs and lives in a calcareous tube attached to stones or seaweed and has a crown of ciliated tentacles
  • shift up — When you shift up, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a higher gear.
  • ship out — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
  • shunpike — a side road taken instead of a turnpike or expressway to avoid tolls or to travel at a leisurely pace.
  • silphium — an American flowering wild plant of the family Asteraceae
  • simpulum — an ancient dipper having the rim of the bowl at right angles to the handle.
  • sinciput — the forepart of the skull.
  • sisyphus — a son of Aeolus and ruler of Corinth, noted for his trickery: he was punished in Tartarus by being compelled to roll a stone to the top of a slope, the stone always escaping him near the top and rolling down again.
  • sit-upon — a piece of waterproof fabric or other material carried by campers, hikers, etc., and used for sitting on wet surfaces.
  • ski jump — a snow-covered chute or slide at the side of a hill or built up on top of the hill, the base of the chute having a horizontal ramp that enables a skier to speed down the chute, take off at the end of the ramp, and land further down the hill.
  • skip out — leave, flee
  • slice up — cut into thin pieces
  • slick up — to make sleek or smooth.
  • slip out — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
  • slumping — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
  • solpugid — sun spider.
  • souplike — resembling or characteristic of soup
  • soutpiel — an English-speaking South African
  • spacious — containing much space, as a house, room, or vehicle; amply large.
  • specious — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
  • spice up — make more exciting
  • spicular — relating to or characteristic of spicula
  • spiculum — a small, needlelike body, part, process, or the like.
  • 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.
  • spin out — the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
  • spin-out — the spinning out of control into a rotating skid of a car or other vehicle.
  • spiritus — a spirit or breathing
  • spit out — eject by spitting
  • spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
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