8-letter words containing s, p, e, d, i
- pleiades — any of the Pleiades.
- polished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
- poolside — the lounging area around a swimming pool.
- portside — situated on the port side
- poseidon — the ancient Greek god of the sea, with the power to cause earthquakes, identified by the Romans with Neptune.
- postdive — following a dive, esp a scuba dive
- pre-aids — (not in technical use) AIDS-related complex.
- precised — a concise summary.
- premised — Also, premiss. Logic. a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion.
- prescind — to separate or single out in thought; abstract.
- presided — to occupy the place of authority or control, as in an assembly or meeting; act as president or chairperson.
- presider — to occupy the place of authority or control, as in an assembly or meeting; act as president or chairperson.
- presidio — a garrisoned fort; military post.
- promised — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- pseudish — pretentious
- redilisp — R.M. Keller, U Utah. Dialect of Lisp used on the Rediflow machine, a derivative of FEL.
- reprised — Usually, reprises. Law. an annual deduction, duty, or payment out of a manor or estate, as an annuity or the like.
- sandpile — a pile of sand, esp one for children to play on
- scripted — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- sepaloid — resembling a sepal.
- sephardi — a Jew of Spanish, Portuguese, or North African descent
- serendip — Arabic name of Sri Lanka.
- serpulid — a marine polychaete worm of the family Serpulidae, which constructs and lives in a calcareous tube attached to stones or seaweed and has a crown of ciliated tentacles
- shipside — the area alongside a ship, as on a pier.
- side pot — (in poker with table stakes) a second or subsequent pot, separate from the main pot, created when a player's entire table stake has been bet in a main pot or another side pot and other players want to continue betting.
- sidepath — a minor path
- sideslip — to slip to one side.
- sidespin — a spinning motion imparted to a ball that causes it to rotate in course about its vertical axis.
- sidestep — to step to one side.
- simpered — to smile in a silly, self-conscious way.
- siphoned — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- skipdent — an open-weave effect in fabric, produced by purposely omitting specific warp ends in the drawing-in process.
- spadille — the highest trump in certain card games, as the queen of clubs in omber.
- spavined — suffering from or affected with spavin.
- speedily — characterized by speed; rapid; swift; fast.
- speeding — rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity: the speed of light; the speed of sound.
- spending — to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.
- speyside — the area surrounding the River Spey in E Scotland; famous for whisky distilleries.
- sphenoid — being in the shape of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- spheroid — a solid geometrical figure similar in shape to a sphere, as an ellipsoid.
- 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
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- spirited — pertaining to something that works by burning alcoholic spirits: a spirit stove.
- spithead — a roadstead off the S coast of England between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
- splendid — gorgeous; magnificent; sumptuous. Synonyms: luxurious, dazzling, imposing. Antonyms: squalid.
- sprained — (of a joint) having been injured by a sudden twisting or wrenching of its ligaments
- sprigged — a small spray of some plant with its leaves, flowers, etc.
- springed — a snare for catching small game.
- sprinted — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.