8-letter words containing s, p, o, t, e
- speakout — a firm or brave statement of one's beliefs
- spectro- — indicating a spectrum
- spoliate — to rob, plunder, or despoil
- sportive — playful or frolicsome; jesting, jocose, or merry: a sportive puppy.
- spotless — free from any spot, stain, etc.; immaculately clean: a spotless kitchen.
- sprocket — Machinery. Also called chainwheel, sprocket wheel. a toothed wheel engaging with a conveyor or power chain. one tooth of such a wheel.
- stanhope — James, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.
- step out — 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.
- step-off — 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.
- stepford — blandly conformist and submissive
- stepover — an instance of raising the foot over the ball while in possession in order to wrong-foot an opponent
- stewpond — a fishpond, often located in the garden of a monastery
- stoke up — to feed and tend (a fire, etc) with fuel
- stompers — stamp (defs 1–3).
- stopless — not having any stops, continuous
- stopover — a brief stop in the course of a journey, as to eat, sleep, or visit friends.
- stoppage — an act or instance of stopping; cessation of activity: the stoppage of all work at the factory.
- store up — save, keep in reserve
- stovetop — the upper surface of a stove, especially the area used for cooking: a stovetop cluttered with unwashed pots and pans.
- strepto- — indicating a shape resembling a twisted chain
- stropper — a person who strops.
- subdepot — a depot within a larger depot
- superhot — extremely hot
- sweetsop — a sweet, pulpy fruit having a thin, tuberculate rind, borne by a tropical American tree or shrub, Annona squamosa, of the annona family.
- taphouse — an inn or tavern where liquor for sale is kept on tap.
- tea shop — a tearoom.
- teaspoon — a small spoon generally used to stir tea, coffee, etc.
- teleshop — to engage in teleshopping.
- ten-spot — a playing card the face of which bears ten pips.
- to press — to be printed
- to spare — more than is required
- topelius — Zakarias [sah-kah-ree-ahs] /ˌsɑ kɑˈri ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1818–98, Finnish poet and novelist.
- topscore — to be the highest scorer in a sports match or competition
- topsider — a light canvas shoe
- topsmelt — a silversides, Atherinops affinis, of waters along the Pacific coast of North America: valued as a food fish.
- topstone — a stone forming the top of something
- trappose — relating to traprock
- trophesy — a condition caused by a disorder of the nerves relating to nutrition
- two-step — a ballroom dance in duple meter, marked by sliding steps.
- typhoeus — the son of Gaea and Tartarus who had a hundred dragon heads, which spurted fire, and a bellowing many-tongued voice. He created the whirlwinds and fought with Zeus before the god hurled him beneath Mount Etna
- unposted — not sent by post
- upstroke — an upward stroke, especially of a pen or pencil, or of a piston in a vertical cylinder.
- vest top — a sleeveless top; a top with thin shoulder straps
- wavetops — Plural form of wavetop.
- westport — a town in SW Connecticut.
- wipeouts — Plural form of wipeout.