5-letter words containing s, p, t
- spitz — Mark (Andrew) born 1950, U.S. swimmer: winner of seven gold medals in 1972 summer Olympic Games.
- splat — a sound made by splattering or slapping.
- split — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- spoot — a razor-shell, a type of shellfish
- sport — an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- spout — to emit or discharge forcibly (a liquid, granulated substance, etc.) in a stream or jet.
- sprat — a species of herring, Clupea sprattus, of the eastern North Atlantic.
- 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.
- spurt — to gush or issue suddenly in a stream or jet, as a liquid; spout.
- stamp — to strike or beat with a forcible, downward thrust of the foot.
- staph — staphylococcus.
- steep — having an almost vertical slope or pitch, or a relatively high gradient, as a hill, an ascent, stairs, etc.
- step- — indicating relationship through the previous union of a spouse or parent rather than by blood
- steps — a course followed by a person in walking or as walking
- 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.
- stoep — a veranda
- stomp — stamp (defs 1–3).
- stoop — to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk.
- stope — any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- stops — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- stopt — a simple past tense and past participle of stop.
- stoup — a basin for holy water, as at the entrance of a church.
- stowp — stoup.
- strap — a narrow strip of flexible material, especially leather, as for fastening or holding things together.
- strep — streptococcus.
- strip — to cut, tear, or form into strips.
- strop — any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- stump — the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off; a standing tree trunk from which the upper part and branches have been removed.
- stupa — a monumental pile of earth or other material, in memory of Buddha or a Buddhist saint, and commemorating some event or marking a sacred spot.
- stupe — a stupid person.
- swept — simple past tense and past participle of sweep1 .
- tapas — the bark of the paper mulberry.
- tapis — Obsolete. a carpet, tapestry, or other covering.
- tbsp. — In recipes, tbsp. is a written abbreviation for tablespoonful.
- temps — part of a dance step in which there is no transfer of weight.
- thesp — an actor
- tipsy — slightly intoxicated or drunk.
- topos — a convention or motif, especially in a literary work; a rhetorical convention.
- traps — a ladder or ladderlike device used to reach a loft, attic, etc.
- turps — alcoholic drink, esp beer (esp in the phrase on the turps)
- types — a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category: a criminal of the most vicious type.
- upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.