8-letter words containing s, p, a, d
- headship — the position of head or chief; chief authority; leadership; supremacy.
- helipads — Plural form of helipad.
- hexapods — Plural form of hexapod.
- hopheads — (slang) Plural form of hophead.
- hospodar — a former title of governors or princes of Wallachia and Moldavia.
- impasted — Simple past tense and past participle of impaste.
- jeopards — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jeopard.
- kaapstad — Afrikaans name of Cape Town.
- kneepads — Plural form of kneepad.
- l-shaped — having the shape of the letter L
- ladyship — (often initial capital letter) the form used in speaking of or to a woman having the title of Lady (usually preceded by her or your).
- landskip — landscape.
- landslip — the downward falling or sliding of a mass of soil, detritus, or rock on or from a steep slope.
- lapidist — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- leopards — Plural form of leopard.
- midspace — an area between two celestial objects
- mindmaps — Plural form of mindmap.
- misadapt — to make suitable to requirements or conditions; adjust or modify fittingly: They adapted themselves to the change quickly. He adapted the novel for movies.
- misplead — To plead amiss or in a wrong manner; err in pleading.
- mud wasp — any of several wasps, as the mud dauber, that construct a nest of mud.
- mudflaps — Plural form of mudflap.
- mudspate — mudflow.
- notepads — Plural form of notepad.
- o-shaped — resembling the rounded form of the letter O
- oldspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) standard English, in contrast to English that is overly technical, politically correct, euphemistic, etc. Compare newspeak.
- operands — Plural form of operand.
- oppidans — Plural form of oppidan.
- padishah — (often initial capital letter) great king; emperor (a title applied especially formerly to the shah of Iran, the sultan of Turkey, and to the British sovereign as emperor in India).
- paduasoy — a slightly corded, strong, rich, silk fabric.
- palisade — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- paludism — malaria.
- paludose — growing or living in marshes
- pandanus — any plant of the genus Pandanus, having sword-shaped leaves arranged in a spiral, comprising the screw pines.
- pandarus — a Trojan who attempted to assassinate Menelaus, thereby violating a truce between the Greeks and the Trojans and prolonging the Trojan War: in Chaucerian and other medieval accounts, he is the procurer of Cressida for Troilus.
- pandavas — (in the Mahabharata) the family of Arjuna, at war with their cousins, the Kauravas.
- paradise — a town in N California.
- paradiso — heaven, as the final abode of the righteous.
- parishad — (in India) an assembly
- parodist — a writer of parodies, especially of a literary subject, work, or style.
- pasadena — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- pashadom — the office or territory of a pasha
- passband — the range of frequencies that pass with a minimum of attenuation through an electronic filter.
- passcode — password (def 2).
- passw0rd — (security) A common default password, often given out by system administrtors to new users, the hope being that they will change it immediately.
- password — a secret word or expression used by authorized persons to prove their right to access, information, etc.
- past due — payment: overdue, late
- pastored — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pastured — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pay desk — the counter in a shop where customers pay for goods
- paysandu — a city in W Uruguay, on the Uruguay River.