8-letter words containing p, r, a, i, s
- sliprail — a rail in a fence that can be slipped out of place to make an opening
- slipware — pottery decorated with slip.
- spagyric — pertaining to or resembling alchemy; alchemic.
- spaniard — a native or inhabitant of Spain.
- spanrail — a rail connecting two legs of furniture; stretcher.
- sparaxis — any plant of the cormous S African genus Sparaxis, esp S. grandiflora and S. tricolor, grown for their dainty spikes of star-shaped purple, red, or orange flowers: family Iridaceae
- sparerib — a cut of pork ribs with most of the meat trimmed off
- sparkily — in a sparky manner
- sparlike — resembling a spar
- sparling — the European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus.
- sparring — a motion of sparring.
- sparsity — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- spartina — a ricegrass which grows in salt marshes
- spearing — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
- sphairee — a game resembling tennis played with wooden bats and a perforated plastic ball, devised by F. A. Beck in 1961
- spicular — relating to or characteristic of spicula
- spingarn — Joel Elias, 1875–1939, U.S. literary critic, publisher, and editor.
- spiracle — a breathing hole; an opening by which a confined space has communication with the outer air; air hole.
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- spirilla — any of several spirally twisted, aerobic bacteria of the genus Spirillum, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans.
- sporadic — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sprained — (of a joint) having been injured by a sudden twisting or wrenching of its ligaments
- springal — a young man
- starlisp — *LISP
- starship — a spaceship designed for intergalactic travel.
- stipular — of or like a stipule or stipules
- tarsiped — a generic term for marsupials of the genus Tarsipes
- tiraspol — a city in E Moldavia (Moldova), NW of Odessa.
- tranship — transship
- trappist — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a branch of the Cistercian order, observing the austere reformed rule established at La Trappe in 1664.
- triapsal — (of a church) having three apses
- triphase — operating in three phases
- trispast — an ancient hoist or hauling device having three blocks.
- unpraise — to withhold praise from
- upraised — If your hand or an object is upraised, you are holding it up in the air.
- upstairs — up the stairs; to or on an upper floor.
- vampires — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
- vaporise — to cause to change into vapor.
- vaporish — of the nature of or resembling vapor: a vaporish chiffon dress.
- vespiary — a nest of social wasps.
- wardship — guardianship; custody.
- warpwise — in a vertical direction; at right angles to the filling; lengthwise.
- warships — Plural form of warship.
- wiretaps — Plural form of wiretap.