8-letter words containing s, p, i, d
- mistyped — Simple past tense and past participle of mistype.
- openside — (rugby), the space on the side of the pitch with the larger distance between the breakdown/set piece and the touchline; compare blindside.
- ophidism — Poisoning by snake venom.
- oppidans — Plural form of oppidan.
- opus dei — an international Roman Catholic organization of lay people and priests founded in Spain in 1928 by Josemaria Escrivá de Balaguer (1902–75), with the aim of spreading Christian principles
- padishah — (often initial capital letter) great king; emperor (a title applied especially formerly to the shah of Iran, the sultan of Turkey, and to the British sovereign as emperor in India).
- palisade — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- paludism — malaria.
- paradise — a town in N California.
- paradiso — heaven, as the final abode of the righteous.
- parishad — (in India) an assembly
- parodist — a writer of parodies, especially of a literary subject, work, or style.
- perished — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- perseids — the heavy meteor showers visible annually about Aug. 12: they appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus
- pheidias — Phidias
- pie dish — a shallow dish that you cook pies in
- piedness — the condition or quality of being pied, for example in an animal
- pierides — the Muses
- piershed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
- pisidian — the extinct language of Pisidia, not known to be related to any other language, written in a script derived from the Greek alphabet.
- pisshead — a drunkard
- plasmoid — a section of a plasma having a characteristic shape
- plaudits — an enthusiastic expression of approval: Her portrayal of Juliet won the plaudits of the critics.
- 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
- postpaid — envelope, card: prepaid
- 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.
- prismoid — a solid having sides that are trapezoids and bases or ends that are parallel and similar but not congruent polygons. Compare prism (def 2).
- promised — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- prosodic — the science or study of poetic meters and versification.
- proudish — rather proud
- pseudish — pretentious
- psychoid — the innate impetus to perform actions
- psyllids — jumping plant louse.
- pyramids — Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
- 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
- satinpod — either of two European plants belonging to the genus Lunaria, of the mustard family, L. annua or L. rediviva, cultivated for their shiny flowers and large, round, flat, satiny pods.
- scaphoid — boat-shaped; navicular.