8-letter words containing s, p, i, t
- spectrin — a rodlike structural protein of the red blood cell membrane.
- spenting — simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- spiccato — (of violin music) performed with short, abrupt, rebounding motions of the bow.
- 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.
- spilitic — relating to spilite
- spin out — the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- spin-out — the spinning out of control into a rotating skid of a car or other vehicle.
- 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.
- spiritus — a spirit or breathing
- spit out — eject by spitting
- spitball — a small ball or lump of chewed paper used as a missile.
- 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.
- spitting — to eject saliva from the mouth; expectorate.
- spittoon — a cuspidor.
- splinter — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- split up — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- split-up — the act of splitting.
- splitter — a person or thing that splits.
- spoliate — to rob, plunder, or despoil
- sporting — of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport: sport fishing.
- sportive — playful or frolicsome; jesting, jocose, or merry: a sportive puppy.
- spotting — the hobby of watching for and noting particular examples of something, such as birds, numbers or types of trains, buses, etc
- spouting — a pipe, tube, or liplike projection through or by which a liquid is discharged, poured, or conveyed.
- 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.
- spritzig — (of wine) sparkling
- sputniks — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of a series of Soviet earth-orbiting satellites: Sputnik I was the world's first space satellite.
- 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.
- stapling — a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
- starlisp — *LISP
- starship — a spaceship designed for intergalactic travel.
- 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.
- stick up — a thrust with a pointed instrument; stab.
- stick-up — a thrust with a pointed instrument; stab.
- stickpin — a decorative straight pin with a jeweled or ornamented head and a long shaft with a sheath for encasing the point, used for holding an ascot or necktie in place.
- stink up — to cause to stink