8-letter words containing s, p, a, t
- jetpacks — Plural form of jetpack.
- jogpants — a pair of trousers worn for jogging
- kaapstad — Afrikaans name of Cape Town.
- lamppost — a post, usually of metal, supporting a lamp that lights a street, park, etc.
- lapidist — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lapstone — A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers used to beat leather.
- lipoates — Plural form of lipoate.
- lisptalk — "Concurrent Programming Language Lisptalk", C. Li, SIGPLAN Notices 23(4):71-80 (Apr 1988).
- mantraps — Plural form of mantrap.
- marsport — a spoilsport
- matchups — Plural form of matchup.
- mateship — the state of being a mate.
- milpitas — a town in W California.
- 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.
- mispaint — to paint badly or wrongly
- mispatch — to patch wrongly
- misplant — to plant badly or wrongly
- misstamp — to stamp badly
- mixtapes — Plural form of mixtape.
- mudspate — mudflow.
- netscape — 1. Netscape Navigator. 2. Netscape Communications Corporation.
- netspeak — internet jargon
- notepads — Plural form of notepad.
- nuptials — of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony: the nuptial day; nuptial vows.
- opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
- operants — Plural form of operant.
- operates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of operate.
- opsimath — (rare) A person who learns late in life.Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed., 2004.
- opticals — (India) spectacles.
- opuntias — Plural form of opuntia.
- out-pass — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- outleaps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outleap.
- outpaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outpace.
- outspans — Plural form of outspan.
- outspeak — to outdo or excel in speaking.
- pacifist — a person who believes in pacifism or is opposed to war or to violence of any kind.
- pactolus — a small river in Asia Minor, in ancient Lydia: famous for the gold washed from its sands.
- paganist — pagan spirit or attitude in religious or moral questions.
- pakistan — Islamic Republic of, a republic in S Asia, between India and Afghanistan: formerly part of British India; known as West Pakistan from 1947–71 to distinguish it from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). 310,403 sq. mi. (803,881 sq. km). Capital: Islamabad.
- palestra — a public place for training or exercise in wrestling or athletics.
- palstave — a bronze celt fitted into a split wooden handle.
- panelist — a member of a small group of persons gathered for formal public discussion, judging, playing a radio or television game, etc.
- panstick — a cosmetic in stick form
- pantsuit — a woman's suit consisting of slacks and a matching jacket.
- pap test — a test for cancer of the cervix, consisting of the staining of cervical cells taken in a cervical or vaginal smear (Pap smear or pap smear) for examination of exfoliated cells.
- papalist — a follower of the Pope or papacy
- papistry — the Roman Catholic Church.
- parasite — an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.
- parietes — Usually, parietes. Biology. a wall, as of a hollow organ; an investing part.
- parodist — a writer of parodies, especially of a literary subject, work, or style.