8-letter words containing s, p, i, l
- loveship — The act of falling in or making love; courtship.
- lumpfish — any of several thick-bodied, sluggish fishes of the family Cyclopteridae, found in northern seas, having the pelvic fins modified and united into a sucking disk, especially Cyclopterus lumpus, of the North Atlantic.
- lycopsid — Any primitive plant of the division Lycopodiophyta.
- lysippus — flourished c360–c320 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- maniples — Plural form of maniple.
- milepost — any of a series of posts set up to mark distance by miles, as along a highway, or an individual post showing the distance to or from a place.
- milksops — Plural form of milksop.
- milpitas — a town in W California.
- misapply — to make a wrong application or use of.
- misplace — to put in a wrong place.
- misplant — to plant badly or wrongly
- misplead — To plead amiss or in a wrong manner; err in pleading.
- misspell — Spell (a word) incorrectly.
- misspelt — Simple past tense and past participle of misspell.
- nauplius — (in many crustaceans) a larval form with three pairs of appendages and a single median eye, occurring usually as the first stage of development after leaving the egg.
- neapolis — a port in E Greece, in Macedonia East and Thrace region on the Bay of Kaválla an important Macedonian fortress of the Byzantine empire; ceded to Greece by Turkey after the Balkan War (1912–13). Pop: 58 576 (1991)
- netsplit — netburp
- newsclip — A very high level language designed for writing netnews filters. It translates into C. It includes support for various newsreaders. Version 1.01 includes a translator from NewsClip to C, examples and documentation. NewsClip was written by Looking Glass Software Ltd. and is distributed and used by ClariNet Communications Corporation It is only supported for ClariNet customers. Output of the filters may not be sold and donation for use of this program is hinted at. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- nuptials — of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony: the nuptial day; nuptial vows.
- objvlisp — 1984. An object-oriented extension of Vlisp. Reflective architecture.
- opticals — (India) spectacles.
- overslip — to leave out; miss.
- painless — without pain; causing little or no pain: painless dentistry; a painless cure.
- palewise — by perpendicular lines
- palisade — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- paludism — malaria.
- panelist — a member of a small group of persons gathered for formal public discussion, judging, playing a radio or television game, etc.
- panicles — a compound raceme.
- panislam — all of Islam or the Muslim world
- papalism — the papal system.
- papalist — a follower of the Pope or papacy
- parasail — a special parachute, kept open with wing-tip holders to help provide lift, used in parasailing.
- parsifal — (italics) a music drama by Richard Wagner: composed 1877–82; première 1882.
- pashalik — the territory governed by a pasha.
- pasolini — Pier Paolo, 1922–75, Italian film director and poet.
- passible — capable of feeling, especially suffering; susceptible of sensation or emotion; impressionable.
- pastille — a flavored or medicated lozenge; troche.
- paulinus — Saint, died a.d. 644, Roman missionary in England with Augustine: 1st archbishop of York 633–644.
- pc-tiles — (language) A visual programming language.
- pci slot — (hardware) A connector on Peripheral Component Interconnect and the associated physical space occupied by the installed PCI card.
- pearlies — dark clothes adorned with pearl buttons worn by a London costermonger on social occasions
- pearlins — clothes trimmed with pearlin
- peelings — Peelings are pieces of skin removed from vegetables and fruit.
- pelagius — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
- pelasgic — Pelasgian.
- pelorism — a floral mutation involving the formation of peloric flowers
- penalise — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- pericles — c495–429 b.c, Athenian statesman.
- perilous — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- periplus — a descriptive account of a voyage, esp of a circumnavigation