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8-letter words containing s, p, i, t, e

  • spenting — simple past tense and past participle of spend.
  • 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.
  • spinster — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
  • spintext — a preacher
  • spirated — twisted in a spiral
  • spirelet — a small spire, as on a turret.
  • spirited — pertaining to something that works by burning alcoholic spirits: a spirit stove.
  • spitcher — the end or finish
  • spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
  • spitfire — a person, especially a girl or woman, who is of fiery temper and easily provoked to outbursts.
  • spithead — a roadstead off the S coast of England between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
  • 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.
  • spoliate — to rob, plunder, or despoil
  • sportive — playful or frolicsome; jesting, jocose, or merry: a sportive puppy.
  • sprinted — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
  • sprinter — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
  • spritzer — a tall drink made with chilled wine and soda.
  • 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.
  • steapsin — the lipase present in pancreatic juice.
  • steeping — to soak in water or other liquid, as to soften, cleanse, or extract some constituent: to steep tea in boiling-hot water; to steep reeds for basket weaving.
  • steepish — somewhat or a little steep
  • step-ins — step-in garments, esp underwear
  • 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.
  • stepping — 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.
  • stepwise — in a steplike arrangement.
  • stipends — a periodic payment, especially a scholarship or fellowship allowance granted to a student.
  • 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.
  • stripped — having had a covering, clothing, equipment, or furnishings removed: trees stripped of their leaves by the storm; a stripped bed ready for clean sheets.
  • stripper — a person who strips.
  • stupider — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
  • 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
  • superfit — extremely fit
  • superhit — an extremely popular song, film, CD, play, etc
  • supinate — to turn to a supine position; rotate (the hand or foot) so that the palm or sole is upward.
  • sweetlip — any of various Australian fish with large lips
  • tarsiped — a generic term for marsupials of the genus Tarsipes
  • the pits — a naturally formed or excavated hole or cavity in the ground: pits caused by erosion; clay pits.
  • the ship — the constellation Argo
  • the yips — (in golf) nervous twitching or tension that destroys concentration and spoils performance
  • thespiae — a city at the foot of Mount Helicon where, according to mythology, the Muses performed their games.
  • thespian — (often lowercase) pertaining to tragedy or to the dramatic art in general.
  • thespius — the founder of the city of Thespiae and the father, by Megamede, of 50 daughters, all of whom bore sons to Hercules.
  • tieclasp — a clip, often ornamental, which holds a tie in place against a shirt
  • timepass — a way of passing the time
  • timespan — a span of time; time frame.
  • tin pest — the powdering of tin exposed to low temperatures, caused by allotropic transformation.
  • tipsheet — a list of advice or tips
  • topelius — Zakarias [sah-kah-ree-ahs] /ˌsɑ kɑˈri ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1818–98, Finnish poet and novelist.
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