8-letter words containing s, p, l, a, t
- sprattle — a struggle; fight.
- st. paul — Saint, died a.d. c67, a missionary and apostle to the gentiles: author of several of the Epistles. Compare Saul (def 2).
- 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
- stipular — of or like a stipule or stipules
- stsc apl — Implementation of APL by Scientific Time-Sharing Corporation
- subplant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- sulphate — A sulphate is a salt of sulphuric acid.
- supplant — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- symplast — the continuous system of protoplasts, linked by plasmodesmata and bounded by the cell wall
- tailspin — spin (def 23).
- tapeless — without tape
- tieclasp — a clip, often ornamental, which holds a tie in place against a shirt
- tiraspol — a city in E Moldavia (Moldova), NW of Odessa.
- triapsal — (of a church) having three apses
- zetalisp — (language) The Maclisp dialect used on the LISP Machine. The many extensions to Maclisp include vectors, closures, flavors, stack groups, locatives, and invisible pointers. Currently supported by Lisp Machines, Inc. and Symbolics.