8-letter words containing s, p, o, t, e
- forspent — worn out; exhausted.
- freepost — Freepost is a system in Britain which allows you to send mail to certain organizations without paying for the postage. 'Freepost' is written on the envelope as part of the address.
- gatepost — the vertical post on which a gate is suspended by hinges, or the post against which the gate is closed.
- goopiest — Superlative form of goopy.
- heatspot — a spot on the skin or other surface produced by heat
- heelpost — a post made to withstand strain, forming or fitted to the end of something, as the post on which a gate or door is hinged.
- helistop — a heliport.
- heptoses — Plural form of heptose.
- hoopster — a basketball player.
- hoplites — Plural form of hoplite.
- housepet — A domestic pet, one that lives mostly indoors.
- housetop — the top or roof of a house.
- imposted — a tax; tribute; duty.
- imposter — a tax; tribute; duty.
- isophote — a line on a diagram or image of a galaxy, nebula, or other celestial object joining points of equal surface brightness
- isopleth — a line drawn on a map through all points having the same numerical value, as of a population figure or geographic measurement.
- isotoped — Simple past tense and past participle of isotope.
- isotopes — Plural form of isotope.
- lapstone — A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers used to beat leather.
- lipoates — Plural form of lipoate.
- lockstep — a way of marching in very close file, in which the leg of each person moves with and closely behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead.
- mephisto — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- metopism — a congenital disfigurement of the forehead in which the frontal suture, which normally undergoes closure during childhood, persists
- milepost — any of a series of posts set up to mark distance by miles, as along a highway, or an individual post showing the distance to or from a place.
- neotypes — Plural form of neotype.
- nepotism — patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
- nepotist — patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
- notepads — Plural form of notepad.
- octuples — Plural form of octuple.
- one-spot — the upward face of a die bearing one pip or a domino one half of which bears one pip.
- one-step — a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.
- one-stop — that can be accomplished in one stop: a store offering one-stop shopping.
- open set — a set which is not a closed set
- opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
- openstep — (operating system) An object-oriented application programming interface (API) derived from NEXTSTEP and proposed as an open standard by NeXT in 1994. OpenStep is the specification of the object kits of NEXTSTEP. OPENSTEP/Mach was an implementation of this specification. The original, OPENSTEP version 4.0, and really was NEXTSTEP 4. Rhapsody was the codename for Apple's Mac OS X Server, which is really NEXTSTEP 5 (it calls itself "kernel 5.3" at boot time). OpenStep was designed to be implemented independently of the computer's operating system, hardware, and user interface. The API for Rhapsody will be a superset of OpenStep's. When the OpenStep API is implemented for a specific platform and made into a product, it is written in uppercase, e.g. OPENSTEP Developer 4.2 for Mach, or OPENSTEP Enterprise for Windows NT and Windows 95. Versions of OPENSTEP exist for Windows 95/NT, Solaris, HP/UX, and Mach.
- operants — Plural form of operant.
- operates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of operate.
- opheltes — the son of King Lycurgus of Nemea who was killed in infancy by a serpent and in whose memory the Nemean games were held.
- opposite — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
- optimise — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- otoscope — an instrument for examining the external canal and tympanic membrane of the ear.
- outleaps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outleap.
- outpaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outpace.
- outpress — to press out
- outsleep — to sleep through or later than (a specified time).
- outspeak — to outdo or excel in speaking.
- outspeed — rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity: the speed of light; the speed of sound.
- outspell — to surpass at spelling
- outspend — to outdo in spending; spend more than: They seemed determined to outspend their neighbors.
- outspent — worn-out; exhausted.