8-letter words containing p, s, k
- slapjack — a simple card game.
- slick up — to make sleek or smooth.
- slipknot — a knot that slips easily along the cord or line around which it is made.
- slopwork — the manufacture of cheap clothing.
- slowpoke — a person who makes slow progress.
- smokepot — a pot or device for producing smoke or a vapour resembling smoke
- snakepit — a pit filled with snakes
- snapback — a sudden rebound or recovery.
- sneakeup — a cowardly, underhanded, or sneaky person
- snowpack — the accumulation of winter snowfall, especially in mountain or upland regions.
- soapbark — a Chilean tree, Quillaja saponaria, of the rose family, having evergreen leaves and small, white flowers.
- sock hop — an informal dance where participants dance in their socks, popular esp. in the 1950s among high-school students
- souplike — resembling or characteristic of soup
- spanking — to strike (a person, usually a child) with the open hand, a slipper, etc., especially on the buttocks, as in punishment.
- spanspek — a sweet rough-skinned melon; a cantaloupe: family Cucurbitaceae
- sparkily — in a sparky manner
- sparkler — a person or thing that sparkles.
- sparklet — a small spark.
- sparlike — resembling a spar
- speak to — talk or converse with
- speak up — talk more loudly
- speakers — a person who speaks.
- speaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
- speakout — a firm or brave statement of one's beliefs
- specking — a small spot differing in color or substance from that of the surface or material upon which it appears or lies: Specks of soot on the window sill.
- speckled — dotted, flecked
- specmark — (benchmark) The average of a set of floating-point and integer SPEC benchmark results. While the old average SPECmark89 has been popular with the industry and the press, SPEC has intentionally *not* defined an average "SPECmark92" over all CPU benchmarks of the 1992 suites (CINT92 and CFP92), for the following reasons: With 6 integer (CINT92) and 14 floating-point (CFP92) benchmarks, the average would be biased too much toward floating-point. Customers' workloads are different, some integer-only, some floating-point intensive, some mixed. Current processors have developed their strengths in a more diverse way (some more emphasizing integer performance, some more floating-point performance) than in 1989. Some SPECmark results are available here. See also SPECint92, SPECfp92, SPECrate_int92, SPECrate_fp92.
- spekboom — a South African shrub
- 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.
- spikelet — a small or secondary spike in grasses; one of the flower clusters, the unit of inflorescence, consisting of two or more flowers and subtended by one or more glumes variously disposed around a common axis.
- spookery — matters relating to spies and espionage
- spookily — like or befitting a spook or ghost; suggestive of spooks.
- sprackle — to clamber or scramble upwards
- sprinkle — to scatter (a liquid, powder, etc.) in drops or particles: She sprinkled powder on the baby.
- sprocket — Machinery. Also called chainwheel, sprocket wheel. a toothed wheel engaging with a conveyor or power chain. one tooth of such a wheel.
- spruiker — to make or give a speech, especially extensively or elaborately; spiel; orate.
- sputniks — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of a series of Soviet earth-orbiting satellites: Sputnik I was the world's first space satellite.
- stack up — a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.
- stake up — to close up (or in) with a fence of stakes
- steplike — 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.
- stick up — a thrust with a pointed instrument; stab.
- stick-up — a thrust with a pointed instrument; stab.
- stickpin — a decorative straight pin with a jeweled or ornamented head and a long shaft with a sheath for encasing the point, used for holding an ascot or necktie in place.
- stink up — to cause to stink
- 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
- stopbank — an embankment to prevent flooding
- stopcock — cock1 (def 3).