6-letter words containing s, p, e
- souper — a person dispensing soup in the name of charity
- souple — silk from which only a portion of the sericin has been removed.
- 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
- spec'd — Usually, specs. specification (def 2).
- speccy — wearing spectacles
- specie — species.
- specif — specific
- specol — ["SPECOL - A Computer Enquiry Language for the Non-Programmer", B.T. Smith, Computer J 11:121 (1968)].
- spects — single photon emission computed tomography: a technique for measuring brain function similar to PET.
- speech — the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one's thoughts and emotions by speech sounds and gesture: Losing her speech made her feel isolated from humanity.
- speedo — speedometer.
- speedy — characterized by speed; rapid; swift; fast.
- speiss — a product obtained in smelting certain ores, consisting of one or more metallic arsenides, as of iron or nickel.
- speltz — a wheat variety
- spence — a male given name, form of Spencer.
- spends — to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.
- spendy — expensive
- spener — Philipp Jakob [fee-leep yah-kawp] /ˈfi lip ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1635–1705, German theologian: founder of Pietism.
- spents — simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- sperre — to bolt
- sperry — Elmer Ambrose, 1860–1930, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.
- sperse — to disperse
- spetch — a piece of animal skin or leather
- spewer — to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth; vomit.
- speyer — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine.
- spezia — a seaport in NW Italy, on the Ligurian Sea: naval base.
- sphene — a mineral, calcium titanium silicate, CaTiSiO 5 , occurring as an accessory mineral in a variety of crystalline rocks, usually in small wedge-shaped crystals.
- sphere — Geometry. a solid geometric figure generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter; a round body whose surface is at all points equidistant from the center. Equation: x 2 + y 2 + z 2 = r 2 . the surface of such a figure; a spherical surface.
- sphery — having the form of a sphere; spherelike.
- spiced — Food that is spiced has had spices or other strong-tasting foods added to it.
- spicey — seasoned with or containing spice: a spicy salad dressing.
- spider — any of numerous predaceous arachnids of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs that serve as nests and as traps for prey.
- spiked — Something that is spiked has one or more spikes on it.
- spiker — a pointed, perforated tube connected to a garden hose, pushed into the soil for deep watering.
- spikes — shoes with metal projections on the sole and heel for greater traction, as used by athletes
- spiles — a peg or plug of wood, especially one used as a spigot.
- spinae — a spine or spinelike projection.
- spinel — any of a group of minerals composed principally of oxides of magnesium, aluminum, iron, manganese, chromium, etc., characterized by their hardness and octahedral crystals.
- spinet — a small upright piano.
- 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.