8-letter words containing s, e, p, u, l
- pasquale — a male given name.
- pauseful — taking many pauses; full of pauses
- pelagius — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
- perilous — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- periplus — a descriptive account of a voyage, esp of a circumnavigation
- petalous — having petals.
- plausive — applauding.
- pleasure — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pleurisy — inflammation of the pleura, with or without a liquid effusion in the pleural cavity, characterized by a dry cough and pain in the affected side.
- pleuston — a buoyant mat of weeds, algae, and associated organisms that floats on or near the surface of a lake, river, or other body of fresh water.
- plugless — having no plug
- plus-one — a person who accompanies an invited person to a social function
- plussage — a surplus amount.
- pluviose — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the fifth month of the year, extending from January 20 to February 18.
- postlude — a concluding piece or movement.
- postquel — POSTGRES QUERy Language. The language used by the POSTGRES database system.
- pressful — the quantity that a press can hold
- pucellas — a tool resembling tongs or shears for handling and shaping molten glass.
- pulpless — the soft, juicy, edible part of a fruit.
- pulsejet — a jet engine equipped with valves that continuously open to admit air, then close during combustion, giving a pulsating thrust: used to power the V-1, a German buzz bomb, in World War II.
- pumpless — having no pump
- purlieus — purlieus, environs or neighborhood.
- purseful — an amount which can be contained in a purse
- purslane — a low, trailing plant, Portulaca oleracea, having yellow flowers, used as a salad plant and potherb. Compare purslane family.
- pusslike — resembling a puss
- resculpt — to sculpt again
- resupply — provide with sth
- scale up — increase in size
- scrumple — to crumple or crush (something, esp a piece of paper) or (esp of a piece of paper) to become crumpled or crushed
- scrupler — a person with scruples
- scruples — a moral or ethical consideration or standard that acts as a restraining force or inhibits certain actions.
- septuple — sevenfold; consisting of seven parts.
- serpulid — a marine polychaete worm of the family Serpulidae, which constructs and lives in a calcareous tube attached to stones or seaweed and has a crown of ciliated tentacles
- sextuple — consisting of six parts; sexpartite.
- sextuply — to offer a rejoinder
- sleepout — a place, such as an outbuilding or porch, used for sleeping away from the main building
- slice up — cut into thin pieces
- smell up — to perceive the odor or scent of through the nose by means of the olfactory nerves; inhale the odor of: I smell something burning.
- soupless — having no soup
- souplike — resembling or characteristic of soup
- soutpiel — an English-speaking South African
- spadeful — the amount that can be dug out with or carried on a spade.
- spansule — a modified-release capsule of a drug
- spaulder — a pauldron, especially one for protecting only a shoulder.
- specular — pertaining to or having the properties of a mirror.
- speculum — a mirror or reflector, especially one of polished metal, as on a reflecting telescope.
- speedful — quick, efficient or brief
- spellful — magical
- spherule — a small sphere or spherical body.
- spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.