8-letter words containing s, l, i, p
- slipshod — careless, untidy, or slovenly: slipshod work.
- slipslop — meaningless or trifling talk or writing.
- slipsole — an insole placed in a shoe for warmth or to adjust the size.
- slipware — pottery decorated with slip.
- sloppily — muddy, slushy, or very wet: The field was a sloppy mess after the rain.
- slopping — to spill or splash (liquid).
- slumping — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
- snoopily — in a prying or snooping manner
- snowslip — a body of snow that slips down a mountain; an avalanche
- solpugid — sun spider.
- souplike — resembling or characteristic of soup
- soutpiel — an English-speaking South African
- spadille — the highest trump in certain card games, as the queen of clubs in omber.
- spalding — Albert, 1888–1953, U.S. violinist.
- spalling — a chip or splinter, as of stone or ore.
- spanrail — a rail connecting two legs of furniture; stretcher.
- sparkily — in a sparky manner
- sparlike — resembling a spar
- sparling — the European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus.
- speedily — characterized by speed; rapid; swift; fast.
- spelling — a continuous course or period of work or other activity: to take a spell at the wheel.
- spicular — relating to or characteristic of spicula
- spiculum — a small, needlelike body, part, process, or the like.
- 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
- spillage — the act or process of spilling.
- spillane — Mickey (Frank Morrison) 1918–2006, U.S. detective novelist.
- spillway — a passageway through which surplus water escapes from a reservoir, lake, or the like.
- spindled — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- spindler — a person who spindles
- spinless — having no spin
- spiracle — a breathing hole; an opening by which a confined space has communication with the outer air; air hole.
- spirelet — a small spire, as on a turret.
- spirilla — any of several spirally twisted, aerobic bacteria of the genus Spirillum, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans.
- 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.
- splaying — to spread out, expand, or extend.
- splendid — gorgeous; magnificent; sumptuous. Synonyms: luxurious, dazzling, imposing. Antonyms: squalid.
- splenium — a structure in the brain
- splenius — a broad muscle on each side of the back of the neck and the upper part of the thoracic region, the action of which draws the head backward and assists in turning it to one side.
- splicing — to join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands.
- splining — a long, narrow, thin strip of wood, metal, etc.; slat.
- 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.
- spoilage — the act of spoiling or the state of being spoiled.
- spoilful — plundering
- spoliate — to rob, plunder, or despoil
- spookily — like or befitting a spook or ghost; suggestive of spooks.