5-letter words containing s, p, i
- spir- — spiro-2
- spire — a coil or spiral.
- spirt — to gush or issue suddenly in a stream or jet, as a liquid; spout.
- spiry — spiral; coiled; coiling; helical.
- spite — a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- spitz — Mark (Andrew) born 1950, U.S. swimmer: winner of seven gold medals in 1972 summer Olympic Games.
- split — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- spoil — to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
- sprig — a small spray of some plant with its leaves, flowers, etc.
- sprit — a small pole or spar crossing a fore-and-aft sail diagonally from the mast to the upper aftermost corner, serving to extend the sail.
- spyri — Johanna [German yaw-hah-nah;; English joh-han-uh-,, -an-uh] /German yɔˈhɑ nɑ;; English dʒoʊˈhæn ə-,, -ˈæn ə/ (Show IPA), 1827–1901, Swiss author.
- srapi — Speech Recognition Application Program Interface
- stipa — a member of a genus of perennial grasses in the subfamily Pooideae
- stipe — Botany, Mycology. a stalk or slender support, as the petiole of a fern frond, the stem supporting the pileus of a mushroom, or a stalklike elongation of the receptacle of a flower.
- stipo — a tall, ornate, Italian desk with a drop lid.
- stirp — a line of descendants from a common ancestor.
- strip — to cut, tear, or form into strips.
- swipe — a strong, sweeping blow, as with a cricket bat or golf club.
- tapis — Obsolete. a carpet, tapestry, or other covering.
- tipsy — slightly intoxicated or drunk.
- vlisp — (language) 1. A Lisp dialect developed by Patrick Greussay <[email protected]> in about 1973 with a fast interpreter and a portable virtual machine. Vlisp introduced the "chronology", a dynamic environment for implementing interrupts. It led to Le_Lisp. See also ObjVlisp. 2. Vincennes LISP.
- whips — to beat with a strap, lash, rod, or the like, especially by way of punishment or chastisement; flog; thrash: Criminals used to be whipped for minor offenses.
- whisp — A flock of snipe.
- wimps — Plural form of wimp.
- wipes — Plural form of wipe.
- wisps — Plural form of wisp.
- wispy — being a wisp or in wisps; wisplike: a wispy plant.
- wppsi — a group of intelligence tests, including the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) later revised (WAIS-R) the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) later revised (WISC-R) the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) and the Wechsler-Bellevue Scale, no longer used, all of which emphasize performance and verbal skills and give separate scores for subtests in vocabulary, arithmetic, memory span, assembly of objects, and other abilities.
- yipes — an expression of surprise, fear, or alarm
- ylisp — A variant of Xlisp from Hewlett-Packard for the HP-95LX palmtop.