8-letter words containing s, t, i, p, e
- postiche — superadded, especially inappropriately, as a sculptural or architectural ornament.
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- preexist — to exist beforehand.
- presplit — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- prestige — reputation or influence arising from success, achievement, rank, or other favorable attributes.
- pretties — pretty women
- previsit — to visit beforehand
- priestly — of or relating to a priest; sacerdotal: priestly vestments.
- primates — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- pristane — a colourless combustible liquid
- pristine — having its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.
- privates — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- proteins — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- psammite — any sandstone.
- psephite — any coarse rock, as breccia or conglomerate.
- purities — the condition or quality of being pure; freedom from anything that debases, contaminates, pollutes, etc.: the purity of drinking water.
- purtiest — pretty.
- put wise — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
- pyelitis — inflammation of the pelvis or outlet of the kidney.
- quipster — a person who frequently makes quips.
- receipts — a written acknowledgment of having received, or taken into one's possession, a specified amount of money, goods, etc.
- reptiles — any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia, comprising the turtles, snakes, lizards, crocodilians, amphisbaenians, tuatara, and various extinct members including the dinosaurs.
- rescript — a written answer, as of a Roman emperor or a pope, to a query or petition in writing.
- rispetto — a form of folk verse from Tuscany
- saponite — a clay mineral, hydrous magnesium aluminum silicate, belonging to the montmorillonite group: found as a soft filling in rock cavities.
- sappiest — abounding in sap, as a plant.
- scripted — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- scripter — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- sepiment — a hedge or fence that acts as a dividing line
- septaria — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- septical — septic
- septimal — of or based on the number seven.
- septimus — a male given name.
- setpoint — the desired value in a closed-loop feedback system, as in regulation of temperature or pressure.
- shipmate — a person who serves with another on the same vessel.
- shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- side pot — (in poker with table stakes) a second or subsequent pot, separate from the main pot, created when a player's entire table stake has been bet in a main pot or another side pot and other players want to continue betting.
- sidepath — a minor path
- sidestep — to step to one side.
- simplest — easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools.
- sinopite — a clay-like mineral containing iron oxides
- siphonet — (of aphids) a small siphon on the abdomen by which an aphid emits sticky liquid
- site map — A site map is a plan of a website showing what is on it and providing links to the different sections.
- skipdent — an open-weave effect in fabric, produced by purposely omitting specific warp ends in the drawing-in process.
- snakepit — a pit filled with snakes
- snippety — sharp or curt, especially in a supercilious or haughty way; impertinent.
- sorptive — the state or process of being sorbed.
- soutpiel — an English-speaking South African
- speciate — to form or develop into a new biological species
- spectrin — a rodlike structural protein of the red blood cell membrane.