8-letter words containing s, p, o, i
- sloppily — muddy, slushy, or very wet: The field was a sloppy mess after the rain.
- slopping — to spill or splash (liquid).
- snoopily — in a prying or snooping manner
- snooping — to prowl or pry; go about in a sneaking, prying way.
- snowslip — a body of snow that slips down a mountain; an avalanche
- soapdish — a shallow container for a bar of soap, used in a bathroom
- soapfish — any of several serranid fishes of the genus Rypticus, producing a body mucus that gives the skin a soapy quality, as R. saponaceus, inhabiting shallow waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
- solpugid — sun spider.
- sopheric — relating to Jewish scribes
- sopherim — scribe1 (def 3).
- sophists — (often initial capital letter) Greek History. any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation. a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.
- sorption — the state or process of being sorbed.
- sorptive — the state or process of being sorbed.
- souplike — resembling or characteristic of soup
- soutpiel — an English-speaking South African
- spacious — containing much space, as a house, room, or vehicle; amply large.
- specious — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
- sphenoid — being in the shape of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- spheroid — a solid geometrical figure similar in shape to a sphere, as an ellipsoid.
- spiccato — (of violin music) performed with short, abrupt, rebounding motions of the bow.
- spin off — the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- spin out — the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- spin-off — Commerce. a process of reorganizing a corporate structure whereby the capital stock of a division or subsidiary of a corporation or of a newly affiliated company is transferred to the stockholders of the parent corporation without an exchange of any part of the stock of the latter. Compare split-off (def 3), split-up (def 3).
- spin-out — the spinning out of control into a rotating skid of a car or other vehicle.
- spit out — eject by spitting
- spittoon — a cuspidor.
- spoffish — officious or bustling
- spoilage — the act of spoiling or the state of being spoiled.
- spoilful — plundering
- spoliate — to rob, plunder, or despoil
- spondaic — of or relating to a spondee.
- sponging — any aquatic, chiefly marine animal of the phylum Porifera, having a porous structure and usually a horny, siliceous or calcareous internal skeleton or framework, occurring in large, sessile colonies.
- spongoid — resembling a sponge
- sponsion — an engagement or promise, especially one made on behalf of another.
- spoofing — a mocking imitation of someone or something, usually light and good-humored; lampoon or parody: The show was a spoof of college life.
- spookily — like or befitting a spook or ghost; suggestive of spooks.
- spooling — any cylindrical piece or device on which something is wound.
- spoonier — foolishly or sentimentally amorous.
- spoonily — in a spoony manner
- spooning — a utensil for use in eating, stirring, measuring, ladling, etc., consisting of a small, shallow bowl with a handle.
- sporadic — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- 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
- spousing — either member of a married pair in relation to the other; one's husband or wife.
- spouting — a pipe, tube, or liplike projection through or by which a liquid is discharged, poured, or conveyed.
- spurious — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
- stinkpot — Also called stinkball. a jar containing combustibles or other materials that generate offensive and suffocating vapors, formerly used in warfare.
- stolypin — Petr Arkadievich. 1863–1911, Russian conservative statesman: prime minister (1906–11). He instituted agrarian reforms but was ruthless in suppressing rebellion: assassinated
- stooping — to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk.