8-letter words containing p, o, t, s
- smokepot — a pot or device for producing smoke or a vapour resembling smoke
- snapshot — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
- soaproot — any plant of the genus Chlorogalum whose roots may be used as a soap substitute
- soapwort — a plant, Saponaria officinalis, of the pink family, whose leaves are used for cleansing.
- soft top — the folding top of a convertible automobile.
- soft-top — the folding top of a convertible automobile.
- sophists — (often initial capital letter) Greek History. any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation. a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.
- sorption — the state or process of being sorbed.
- sorptive — the state or process of being sorbed.
- soupmeat — beef used for making soup stock.
- southpaw — a person who is left-handed.
- soutpiel — an English-speaking South African
- spa town — a town where water comes out of the ground and people come to drink it or lie in it because they think it will improve their health
- spathose — spathaceous.
- spaz out — an awkward or clumsy person.
- speak to — talk or converse with
- speakout — a firm or brave statement of one's beliefs
- spectro- — indicating a spectrum
- spiccato — (of violin music) performed with short, abrupt, rebounding motions of the bow.
- 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.
- spit out — eject by spitting
- spittoon — a cuspidor.
- splotchy — marked or covered with splotches.
- spoliate — to rob, plunder, or despoil
- spontoon — a shafted weapon having a pointed blade with crossbar at its base, used by infantry officers in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- sporting — of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport: sport fishing.
- sportive — playful or frolicsome; jesting, jocose, or merry: a sportive puppy.
- spotless — free from any spot, stain, etc.; immaculately clean: a spotless kitchen.
- spotting — the hobby of watching for and noting particular examples of something, such as birds, numbers or types of trains, buses, etc
- spouting — a pipe, tube, or liplike projection through or by which a liquid is discharged, poured, or conveyed.
- sprocket — Machinery. Also called chainwheel, sprocket wheel. a toothed wheel engaging with a conveyor or power chain. one tooth of such a wheel.
- stamp on — tread heavily on
- stanhope — James, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.
- starspot — a dark patch on the surface of a star
- step out — 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.
- step-off — 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.
- stepford — blandly conformist and submissive
- stepover — an instance of raising the foot over the ball while in possession in order to wrong-foot an opponent
- stewpond — a fishpond, often located in the garden of a monastery
- stinkpot — Also called stinkball. a jar containing combustibles or other materials that generate offensive and suffocating vapors, formerly used in warfare.
- stock up — buy a lot of sth for future use
- stockpot — a pot in which stock for soup, sauces, etc., is made and kept.
- stoke up — to feed and tend (a fire, etc) with fuel
- stolport — short take-off and landing airport: an airport designed for aircraft that can do short take-offs and landings and only require a short runway
- stolypin — Petr Arkadievich. 1863–1911, Russian conservative statesman: prime minister (1906–11). He instituted agrarian reforms but was ruthless in suppressing rebellion: assassinated
- stompers — stamp (defs 1–3).
- stooping — to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk.
- stop log — a board or boarding that is placed along the top of a dam to increase its height and capacity
- stop off — the act of stopping.