8-letter words containing s, p, a, t
- stand-up — standing erect or upright, as a collar.
- standpat — standpatter.
- stanhope — James, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.
- stapelia — any of various plants of the genus Stapelia, of the milkweed family, native to southern Africa, having short, fleshy, leafless stems, and flowers that are oddly colored or mottled and in most species emit a fetid, carrionlike odor.
- stapling — a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
- star map — star chart.
- starlisp — *LISP
- starship — a spaceship designed for intergalactic travel.
- starspot — a dark patch on the surface of a star
- start up — the act or fact of starting something; a setting in motion.
- start-up — the act or fact of starting something; a setting in motion.
- stay put — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- steam up — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- steapsin — the lipase present in pancreatic juice.
- stepdame — a stepmother.
- stephane — an ancient Greek headdress or crown often depicted in the statuary of various deities
- stephead — dropline.
- stipular — of or like a stipule or stipules
- stopbank — an embankment to prevent flooding
- stoppage — an act or instance of stopping; cessation of activity: the stoppage of all work at the factory.
- stoppard — Tom (Thomas Straussler) born 1937, British playwright, born in the Czech Republic.
- strapped — needy; wanting: The company is rather strapped for funds.
- strapper — a person or thing that straps.
- stsc apl — Implementation of APL by Scientific Time-Sharing Corporation
- stumpage — standing timber with reference to its value.
- stuprate — to ravish or rape
- subplant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- subtopia — suburban development that encroaches on rural areas yet appears to offer the attractions of country life to suburban dwellers
- sulphate — A sulphate is a salt of sulphuric acid.
- superate — overcome; surmounted; surpassed
- supertax — Chiefly British. a tax in addition to a normal tax, as one upon income above a certain amount.
- supinate — to turn to a supine position; rotate (the hand or foot) so that the palm or sole is upward.
- supplant — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- swaption — A swaption is an over-the-counter option on a swap.
- sympathy — harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
- sympatry — the occurrence of sympatric organisms
- symplast — the continuous system of protoplasts, linked by plasmodesmata and bounded by the cell wall
- synaptic — Also called syndesis. Cell Biology. the pairing of homologous chromosomes, one from each parent, during early meiosis.
- t-shaped — having the shape of a letter T
- tailspin — spin (def 23).
- tamper's — a person or thing that tamps.
- tankship — a ship for carrying bulk cargoes of liquids; tanker.
- tant pis — so much the worse
- tapeless — without tape
- tapestry — a fabric consisting of a warp upon which colored threads are woven by hand to produce a design, often pictorial, used for wall hangings, furniture coverings, etc.
- taphouse — an inn or tavern where liquor for sale is kept on tap.
- tarsiped — a generic term for marsupials of the genus Tarsipes
- tea shop — a tearoom.
- teaspoon — a small spoon generally used to stir tea, coffee, etc.
- the past — the period of time or a segment of it that has elapsed