8-letter words containing s, p, i, e, l
- shipless — free of ships
- sideslip — to slip to one side.
- simples! — an expression used to suggest that something can be done or understood with no difficulty
- simplest — easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools.
- ski pole — a slender pole or stick, usually with a metal point at one end, a loop for the hand at the other, and a disk near the lower end to prevent its sinking into snow, used in skiing to gain momentum, maintain balance, execute certain jumps, etc.
- skiplane — an airplane equipped with skis to enable it to land on and take off from snow.
- sleep in — live-in (def 1).
- sleep-in — live-in (def 1).
- sleepily — ready or inclined to sleep; drowsy.
- sleeping — the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps.
- sleipnir — the eight-legged horse of Odin.
- slice up — cut into thin pieces
- slipcase — a box for a book or set of books, open on one side so that the spine is visible.
- slipless — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- slipover — of or denoting a garment that can be put on easily over the head
- slippage — an act or instance of slipping.
- slippers — Slippers are loose, soft shoes that you wear in your room.
- slippery — tending or liable to cause slipping or sliding, as ice, oil, a wet surface, etc.: a slippery road.
- slipsole — an insole placed in a shoe for warmth or to adjust the size.
- slipware — pottery decorated with slip.
- souplike — resembling or characteristic of soup
- soutpiel — an English-speaking South African
- spadille — the highest trump in certain card games, as the queen of clubs in omber.
- sparlike — resembling a spar
- speedily — characterized by speed; rapid; swift; fast.
- spelling — a continuous course or period of work or other activity: to take a spell at the wheel.
- spikelet — a small or secondary spike in grasses; one of the flower clusters, the unit of inflorescence, consisting of two or more flowers and subtended by one or more glumes variously disposed around a common axis.
- spillage — the act or process of spilling.
- spillane — Mickey (Frank Morrison) 1918–2006, U.S. detective novelist.
- spindled — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- spindler — a person who spindles
- spinless — having no spin
- spiracle — a breathing hole; an opening by which a confined space has communication with the outer air; air hole.
- spirelet — a small spire, as on a turret.
- spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- splendid — gorgeous; magnificent; sumptuous. Synonyms: luxurious, dazzling, imposing. Antonyms: squalid.
- splenium — a structure in the brain
- splenius — a broad muscle on each side of the back of the neck and the upper part of the thoracic region, the action of which draws the head backward and assists in turning it to one side.
- splinter — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- splitter — a person or thing that splits.
- spoilage — the act of spoiling or the state of being spoiled.
- spoliate — to rob, plunder, or despoil
- sprinkle — to scatter (a liquid, powder, etc.) in drops or particles: She sprinkled powder on the baby.
- stapelia — any of various plants of the genus Stapelia, of the milkweed family, native to southern Africa, having short, fleshy, leafless stems, and flowers that are oddly colored or mottled and in most species emit a fetid, carrionlike odor.
- steplike — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- stippled — A surface that is stippled is covered with tiny spots.
- stipules — one of a pair of lateral appendages, often leaflike, at the base of a leaf petiole in many plants.
- sulphide — A sulphide is a compound of sulphur with some other chemical elements.
- sulphite — any salt or ester of sulphurous acid, containing the ions SO32– or HSO3– (hydrogen sulphite) or the groups –SO3 or –HSO3. The salts are usually soluble crystalline compounds
- superlie — to lie above