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8-letter words containing s, e, p, o

  • loveship — The act of falling in or making love; courtship.
  • maypoles — Plural form of maypole.
  • megalops — the larval stage of marine crabs immediately prior to and resembling the adult stage.
  • mephisto — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
  • mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
  • mesopeak — the level of maximum temperature in the mesophere, at an altitude of about 30 miles (48 km).
  • metopism — a congenital disfigurement of the forehead in which the frontal suture, which normally undergoes closure during childhood, persists
  • milepost — any of a series of posts set up to mark distance by miles, as along a highway, or an individual post showing the distance to or from a place.
  • mispoise — lack of poise
  • misspoke — Simple past form of misspeak.
  • mopiness — languishing, listless, droopy, or glum.
  • morpheus — Classical Mythology. a son of Hypnos and the god of dreams.
  • mousepox — ectromelia (def 2).
  • myoscope — an instrument for observing muscular contraction.
  • neapolis — a port in E Greece, in Macedonia East and Thrace region on the Bay of Kaválla an important Macedonian fortress of the Byzantine empire; ceded to Greece by Turkey after the Balkan War (1912–13). Pop: 58 576 (1991)
  • necropsy — the examination of a body after death; autopsy.
  • neoplasm — a new, often uncontrolled growth of abnormal tissue; tumor.
  • neotypes — Plural form of neotype.
  • nephrons — Plural form of nephron.
  • nepotism — patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
  • nepotist — patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
  • notepads — Plural form of notepad.
  • o-shaped — resembling the rounded form of the letter O
  • occupies — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • octuples — Plural form of octuple.
  • oldspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) standard English, in contrast to English that is overly technical, politically correct, euphemistic, etc. Compare newspeak.
  • one-spot — the upward face of a die bearing one pip or a domino one half of which bears one pip.
  • one-step — a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.
  • one-stop — that can be accomplished in one stop: a store offering one-stop shopping.
  • oosphere — an unfertilized egg within an oogonium.
  • oospores — Plural form of oospore.
  • opalesce — to exhibit a play of colors like that of the opal.
  • open sea — the main body of a sea or ocean, especially the part that is outside territorial waters and not enclosed, or partially enclosed, by land.
  • open set — a set which is not a closed set
  • opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
  • openings — Plural form of opening.
  • openness — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
  • openside — (rugby), the space on the side of the pitch with the larger distance between the breakdown/set piece and the touchline; compare blindside.
  • openstep — (operating system)   An object-oriented application programming interface (API) derived from NEXTSTEP and proposed as an open standard by NeXT in 1994. OpenStep is the specification of the object kits of NEXTSTEP. OPENSTEP/Mach was an implementation of this specification. The original, OPENSTEP version 4.0, and really was NEXTSTEP 4. Rhapsody was the codename for Apple's Mac OS X Server, which is really NEXTSTEP 5 (it calls itself "kernel 5.3" at boot time). OpenStep was designed to be implemented independently of the computer's operating system, hardware, and user interface. The API for Rhapsody will be a superset of OpenStep's. When the OpenStep API is implemented for a specific platform and made into a product, it is written in uppercase, e.g. OPENSTEP Developer 4.2 for Mach, or OPENSTEP Enterprise for Windows NT and Windows 95. Versions of OPENSTEP exist for Windows 95/NT, Solaris, HP/UX, and Mach.
  • operands — Plural form of operand.
  • operants — Plural form of operant.
  • operates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of operate.
  • opheltes — the son of King Lycurgus of Nemea who was killed in infancy by a serpent and in whose memory the Nemean games were held.
  • opposers — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
  • opposite — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
  • opsonize — to increase the susceptibility of (bacteria) to ingestion by phagocytes.
  • optimise — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
  • opus dei — an international Roman Catholic organization of lay people and priests founded in Spain in 1928 by Josemaria Escrivá de Balaguer (1902–75), with the aim of spreading Christian principles
  • opuscule — a small or minor work.
  • osipenko — former name of Berdyansk.
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