5-letter words containing p, s, e
- speos — a cavelike temple, tomb, or the like, cut in rock.
- sperm — semen.
- speug — a sparrow
- spewy — marshy
- spice — any of a class of pungent or aromatic substances of vegetable origin, as pepper, cinnamon, or cloves, used as seasoning, preservatives, etc.
- spide — a young working-class man who dresses in casual sports clothes
- spied — a person employed by a government to obtain secret information or intelligence about another, usually hostile, country, especially with reference to military or naval affairs.
- spiel — a usually high-flown talk or speech, especially for the purpose of luring people to a movie, a sale, etc.; pitch.
- spier — a person who spies, watches, or discovers.
- spies — a person employed by a government to obtain secret information or intelligence about another, usually hostile, country, especially with reference to military or naval affairs.
- spike — an ear, as of wheat or other grain.
- spile — a peg or plug of wood, especially one used as a spigot.
- spine — the spinal or vertebral column; backbone.
- spire — a coil or spiral.
- spite — a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- spode — Josiah, 1733–97, and his son, Josiah, 1754–1827, English potters.
- spoem — a poem made up entirely from the subject lines of different spam emails
- spoke — a simple past tense of speak.
- spore — Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- spree — a river in E Germany, flowing N through Berlin to the Havel River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- sprue — a chronic disease, occurring chiefly in the tropics, resulting from malabsorption of nutrients from the small intestine and characterized by diarrhea, ulceration of the mucous membrane of the digestive tract, and a smooth, shining tongue; psilosis.
- spume — to eject or discharge as or like foam or froth; spew (often followed by forth).
- steep — having an almost vertical slope or pitch, or a relatively high gradient, as a hill, an ascent, stairs, etc.
- step- — indicating relationship through the previous union of a spouse or parent rather than by blood
- steps — a course followed by a person in walking or as walking
- stipe — Botany, Mycology. a stalk or slender support, as the petiole of a fern frond, the stem supporting the pileus of a mushroom, or a stalklike elongation of the receptacle of a flower.
- stoep — a veranda
- stope — any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- strep — streptococcus.
- stupe — a stupid person.
- super — Informal. a superintendent, especially of an apartment house. supermarket. supernumerary. supervisor.
- suppe — Franz von [frahnts fuh n] /frɑnts fən/ (Show IPA), 1819–95, Austrian composer.
- sweep — to move or remove (dust, dirt, etc.) with or as if with a broom, brush, or the like.
- swept — simple past tense and past participle of sweep1 .
- swipe — a strong, sweeping blow, as with a cricket bat or golf club.
- temps — part of a dance step in which there is no transfer of weight.
- thesp — an actor
- types — a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category: a criminal of the most vicious type.
- upsee — a drunken festivity
- upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
- vespa — Very Efficient Speculative Parallel Architecture
- weeps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of weep.
- wipes — Plural form of wipe.
- yelps — Plural form of yelp.
- yipes — an expression of surprise, fear, or alarm
- ypres — a town in W Belgium: battles 1914–18.