6-letter words containing s, p, e, a
- sapote — Also called marmalade tree. a tree, Pouteria sapota, of the sapodilla family, native to Mexico and Central America, having large leaves and sweet, edible fruit.
- sapped — Fortification. a deep, narrow trench constructed so as to form an approach to a besieged place or an enemy's position.
- sapper — a soldier employed in the construction of fortifications, trenches, or tunnels that approach or undermine enemy positions.
- sapple — soap bubbles
- sarape — serape.
- scrape — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
- secpar — (in astronomy) a unit of distance equivalent to 3.262 light years
- sepals — one of the individual leaves or parts of the calyx of a flower.
- sepmag — designating a film or television programme for which the sound is recorded on separate magnetic material and run in synchronism with the picture
- septal — of or relating to a septum.
- serape — a blanketlike shawl or wrap, often of brightly colored wool, as worn in Latin America.
- seraph — one of the celestial beings hovering above God's throne in Isaiah's vision. Isa. 6.
- shaped — of a definite form, shape, or character (often used in combination): a U -shaped driveway.
- shapen — having a designated shape (usually used in combination): a sprawling, ill-shapen building.
- shaper — a person or thing that shapes.
- shapes — Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe.
- sharpe — William Forsyth [fawr-sahyth] /ˈfɔr saɪθ/ (Show IPA), born 1934, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1990.
- sherpa — a member of a people of Tibetan stock living in the Nepalese Himalayas, who often serve as porters on mountain-climbing expeditions.
- soaper — soap opera.
- spacer — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- spacey — spaced-out (def 2).
- spades — a black figure shaped like an inverted heart and with a short stem at the cusp opposite the point, used on playing cards.
- spared — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
- spares — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
- sparge — a sprinkling.
- sparke — a battle-axe
- sparse — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- spathe — a bract or pair of bracts, often large and colored, subtending or enclosing a spadix or flower cluster.
- spears — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
- speary — resembling or characteristic of spears
- spezia — a seaport in NW Italy, on the Ligurian Sea: naval base.
- spinae — a spine or spinelike projection.
- spirea — any of various plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Spiraea, of the rose family, having clusters of small, white or pink flowers, certain species of which are cultivated as ornamentals.
- splake — the hybrid offspring of a lake trout and a brook trout.
- spread — to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
- stapes — the innermost, stirrup-shaped bone of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals, involved in the conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear. Also called stirrup. Compare incus (def 1), malleus.
- staple — a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
- tapies — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ˈɑn tɔˌni/ (Show IPA), or Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1923–2012, Spanish painter.
- trapes — to walk or go aimlessly or idly or without finding or reaching one's goal: We traipsed all over town looking for a copy of the book.
- uaupes — a river in S central Colombia, where it rises and is called the (Vaupes) flowing in NW Brazil E and SE to the Rio Negro River. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- waspie — a tight-waisted corset