8-letter words containing p, t, i, l
- sculpsit — he engraved, carved, or sculptured (it); she engraved, carved, or sculptured (it). Abbreviation: sc.
- septical — septic
- septimal — of or based on the number seven.
- shoplift — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
- simplest — easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools.
- simplist — a herbalist
- slip out — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- slip top — the end of a slip stem on a spoon.
- slipknot — a knot that slips easily along the cord or line around which it is made.
- soutpiel — an English-speaking South African
- 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.
- spilitic — relating to spilite
- spirelet — a small spire, as on a turret.
- spitball — a small ball or lump of chewed paper used as a missile.
- spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- splinter — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- split up — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- split-up — the act of splitting.
- splitter — a person or thing that splits.
- spoliate — to rob, plunder, or despoil
- stapelia — any of various plants of the genus Stapelia, of the milkweed family, native to southern Africa, having short, fleshy, leafless stems, and flowers that are oddly colored or mottled and in most species emit a fetid, carrionlike odor.
- stapling — a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
- starlisp — *LISP
- 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.
- stippled — A surface that is stippled is covered with tiny spots.
- stipular — of or like a stipule or stipules
- stipules — one of a pair of lateral appendages, often leaflike, at the base of a leaf petiole in many plants.
- stolypin — Petr Arkadievich. 1863–1911, Russian conservative statesman: prime minister (1906–11). He instituted agrarian reforms but was ruthless in suppressing rebellion: assassinated
- stumpily — in a stumpy manner
- stupidly — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
- sulphite — any salt or ester of sulphurous acid, containing the ions SO32– or HSO3– (hydrogen sulphite) or the groups –SO3 or –HSO3. The salts are usually soluble crystalline compounds
- sweetlip — any of various Australian fish with large lips
- taillamp — the rear light of a motor vehicle
- tailpipe — an exhaust pipe located at the rear of a motor vehicle or aircraft powered by an internal-combustion engine.
- tailspin — spin (def 23).
- talapoin — a small, yellowish guenon monkey, Micropithecus (Cercopithecus) talapoin, of western Africa.
- the pill — a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard coating, that is to be swallowed whole.
- thiophil — having an attraction to sulphur
- thlipsis — compression or constriction by an outside cause, esp of the blood vessels or another part of the body
- tholepin — thole1
- tie clip — clasp for securing a necktie
- tie plug — a wooden plug driven into the hole left in a tie when a spike has been withdrawn.
- tieclasp — a clip, often ornamental, which holds a tie in place against a shirt
- tilt-top — designating a table, stand, etc. designed so that the top, hinged to a pedestal, can be tipped to a vertical position
- tiraspol — a city in E Moldavia (Moldova), NW of Odessa.
- toe clip — a device attached to a bicycle pedal that grips the front part of the rider's shoe to keep the foot from slipping off the pedal.
- top kill — a technique in which a heavy fluid, usually drilling mud, is pumped into a leaking oil well to stop the flow of oil: The top kill is underway, but success remains uncertain as engineers desperately pump mud into the damaged blowout preventer.
- topalgia — pain restricted to a particular spot: a neurotic or hysterical symptom
- topelius — Zakarias [sah-kah-ree-ahs] /ˌsɑ kɑˈri ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1818–98, Finnish poet and novelist.
- topliner — so important as to be named at or near the top of a newspaper item, advertisement, or the like: a topline actress; topline news.