6-letter words containing s, p, e
- gypsie — Archaic spelling of gypsy.
- hasped — Simple past tense and past participle of hasp.
- herpes — any of several diseases caused by herpesvirus, characterized by eruption of blisters on the skin or mucous membranes. Compare chickenpox, genital herpes, oral herpes, shingles.
- hesper — Hesperus.
- hopers — the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best: to give up hope.
- hoples — a son of Ion.
- impels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impel.
- impest — (obsolete, transitive) To afflict with pestilence.
- impose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- instep — the arched upper surface of the human foot between the toes and the ankle.
- jasper — a city in NW Alabama.
- joseph — 1741–90, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1765–90 (son of Francis I; brother of Leopold II and Marie Antoinette).
- juleps — Plural form of julep.
- kasper — a male given name, form of Caspar.
- kempis — Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.
- kipsie — Alternative spelling of kipsy.
- kopeks — Plural form of kopek.
- laipse — to beat soundly
- lapels — Plural form of lapel.
- lapsed — expired; voided; terminated: a lapsed insurance policy.
- lapser — One who lapses.
- lapses — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
- lepers — A person suffering from leprosy.
- lipase — any of a class of enzymes that break down fats, produced by the liver, pancreas, and other digestive organs or by certain plants.
- lisped — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- lisper — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- loupes — Plural form of loupe.
- maples — Plural form of maple.
- merops — (in the Iliad) a Percosian augur who foresaw and unsuccessfully tried to prevent the death of his sons in the Trojan War.
- mispen — to write incorrectly
- mopeds — Plural form of moped.
- myopes — Plural form of myope.
- naples — a region in SW Italy. 5214 sq. mi. (13,505 sq. km). Capital: Naples.
- nappes — Plural form of nappe.
- nepers — Plural form of neper.
- operas — Plural form of opera.
- opines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of opine.
- oppose — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
- osprey — Also called fish hawk. a large hawk, Pandion haliaetus, that feeds on fish.
- palest — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
- papers — a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc.
- paries — Usually, parietes. Biology. a wall, as of a hollow organ; an investing part.
- parkes — Sir Henry. 1815–96, Australian journalist and politician born in England, five times premier of New South Wales, advocate of free trade and Federation, and a founder of the public education system
- parsec — a unit of distance equal to that required to cause a heliocentric parallax of one second of an arc, equivalent to 206,265 times the distance from the earth to the sun, or 3.26 light-years.
- parsee — an Indian Zoroastrian descended from Persian Zoroastrians who went to India in the 7th and 8th centuries to escape Muslim persecution.
- parser — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- pasear — to go for a rambling walk or paseo
- passed — having completed the act of passing.
- passel — a group or lot of indeterminate number: a passel of dignitaries.
- passer — a person or thing that passes or causes something to pass.