8-letter words containing s, p, e
- bonspiel — a curling match
- bontemps — Arna Wendell [ahr-nuh] /ˈɑr nə/ (Show IPA), 1902–73, U.S. author.
- box step — a basic step in ballroom dancing, in which the feet move in the form of a rectangle
- budapest — the capital of Hungary, on the River Danube: formed in 1873 from the towns of Buda and Pest. Traditionally Buda, the old Magyar capital, was the administrative and Pest the trade centre: suffered severely in the Russian siege of 1945 and in the unsuccessful revolt against the Communist regime (1956). Pop: 1 719 342 (2003 est)
- burpless — a belch; eructation.
- bypassed — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- bypasser — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
- campiest — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- campness — the quality of being camp
- campshed — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- campsite — A campsite is a place where people who are on holiday can stay in tents.
- campuses — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- canopies — Plural form of canopy.
- capaneus — one of the Seven against Thebes, who was destroyed by Zeus for blasphemy.
- capelins — Plural form of capelin.
- capeskin — a soft leather obtained from the skins of a type of lamb or sheep having hairlike wool
- capiases — Plural form of capias.
- caprices — Plural form of caprice.
- caprines — Plural form of caprine.
- capsheaf — The top sheaf of a stook of wheat etc.
- capsized — Simple past tense and past participle of capsize.
- capsizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capsize.
- capstern — Misspelling of capstan.
- capstone — one of a set of slabs on the top of a wall, building, etc
- capsuled — Enclosed within a capsule.
- capsules — Plural form of capsule.
- captives — Plural form of captive; persons held prisoner.
- captures — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- capuches — Plural form of capuche.
- capulets — Plural form of capulet.
- cassiope — (sometimes initial capital letter) any evergreen shrub belonging to the genus Cassiope, of the heath family, having nodding white or pinkish solitary flowers and scalelike or needlelike leaves.
- cell sap — the watery fluid within the central vacuole of a plant cell.
- cephalus — the husband of Procris.
- cepstrum — (mathematics) The Fourier transform of the logarithm of a spectrum; used especially in voice analysis.
- cesspipe — a waste pipe, especially one discharging from a cesspool.
- cesspits — Plural form of cesspit.
- cesspool — A cesspool is the same as a cesspit.
- champers — Champers is champagne.
- chapless — lacking a lower jaw
- chaplets — Plural form of chaplet.
- chappies — Plural form of chappie.
- chapters — Plural form of chapter.
- chase up — If you chase up something that is needed or needs dealing with, you find it or find out what is being done about it.
- cheapens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cheapen.
- cheapest — costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress.
- cheapish — costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress.
- checkups — Plural form of checkup.
- chepstow — a town in S Wales, in Monmouthshire on the River Wye: tourism, light industry. Pop: 10 821 (2001)
- chip set — (hardware) A collection of integrated circuits that are designed to be used together for some specific purpose. E.g. control circuitry in an IBM PC.