8-letter words containing s, p, e, i
- overskip — to skip over
- overslip — to leave out; miss.
- overspin — topspin.
- paeanism — the show of a paean
- painless — without pain; causing little or no pain: painless dentistry; a painless cure.
- pairwise — two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together: a pair of gloves; a pair of earrings.
- palewise — by perpendicular lines
- palisade — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- panelist — a member of a small group of persons gathered for formal public discussion, judging, playing a radio or television game, etc.
- panicles — a compound raceme.
- panpipes — a primitive wind instrument consisting of a series of hollow pipes of graduated length, the tones being produced by blowing across the upper ends.
- papisher — a Roman Catholic
- paradise — a town in N California.
- 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.
- parishen — a parishioner
- partiers — a person who parties, especially regularly or habitually: New Year's Eve always brings out the partyers.
- pasiphae — Classical Mythology. the wife of Minos, mother of Ariadne, and mother of the Minotaur by the Cretan bull.
- pasithea — one of the Graces.
- passible — capable of feeling, especially suffering; susceptible of sensation or emotion; impressionable.
- pastiche — a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
- pastille — a flavored or medicated lozenge; troche.
- pastries — a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
- patients — a person who is under medical care or treatment.
- patrices — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- pc-tiles — (language) A visual programming language.
- pearlies — dark clothes adorned with pearl buttons worn by a London costermonger on social occasions
- pearlins — clothes trimmed with pearlin
- peatship — the state of being a peat
- peckings — to strike or indent with the beak, as a bird does, or with some pointed instrument, especially with quick, repeated movements.
- peelings — Peelings are pieces of skin removed from vegetables and fruit.
- peiraeus — a seaport in SE Greece: the port of Athens.
- pekinese — A pekinese is a type of small dog with long hair, short legs, and a short, flat nose.
- pelagius — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
- pelasgic — Pelasgian.
- pelorism — a floral mutation involving the formation of peloric flowers
- penalise — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- pennines — a member of the chlorite group, rhombohedral in habit.
- pensione — an Italian boarding house or small hotel
- péquiste — in Canada, member or supporter of the Parti Québécois
- pericles — c495–429 b.c, Athenian statesman.
- perilous — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- periplus — a descriptive account of a voyage, esp of a circumnavigation
- perisarc — the horny or chitinous outer case or covering protecting the soft parts of hydrozoans.
- perished — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- perisher — mischievous person
- peronism — the principles or policies of Juan Perón.
- peronist — a supporter of Juan Perón or of his principles and policies.
- perseids — the heavy meteor showers visible annually about Aug. 12: they appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus
- perseity — (in medieval philosophy) the quality of those things having substance independently of any real object.