8-letter words containing t, e, s, p
- sparklet — a small spark.
- spathose — spathaceous.
- spätlese — type of German wine, usually white
- speak to — talk or converse with
- speakout — a firm or brave statement of one's beliefs
- speciate — to form or develop into a new biological species
- spectate — to participate as a spectator, as at a horse race.
- spectral — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- spectrin — a rodlike structural protein of the red blood cell membrane.
- spectro- — indicating a spectrum
- spectrum — ZX Spectrum
- spenting — simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- spetsnaz — a Soviet intelligence force
- spikelet — a small or secondary spike in grasses; one of the flower clusters, the unit of inflorescence, consisting of two or more flowers and subtended by one or more glumes variously disposed around a common axis.
- spinster — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- spintext — a preacher
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- spirelet — a small spire, as on a turret.
- spirited — pertaining to something that works by burning alcoholic spirits: a spirit stove.
- spitcher — the end or finish
- spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- spitfire — a person, especially a girl or woman, who is of fiery temper and easily provoked to outbursts.
- spithead — a roadstead off the S coast of England between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
- splatter — an act or instance of splattering.
- splinter — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- splitter — a person or thing that splits.
- splutter — to talk rapidly and somewhat incoherently, as when confused, excited, or embarrassed: When pushed for an explanation, he always spluttered.
- 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.
- sprattle — a struggle; fight.
- spreathe — to chap
- sprinted — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- sprinter — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- spritzer — a tall drink made with chilled wine and soda.
- sprocket — Machinery. Also called chainwheel, sprocket wheel. a toothed wheel engaging with a conveyor or power chain. one tooth of such a wheel.
- spumante — Italian. any sparkling wine.
- spurters — to gush or issue suddenly in a stream or jet, as a liquid; spout.
- sputtery — tending to sputter
- stake up — to close up (or in) with a fence of stakes
- stampede — a sudden, frenzied rush or headlong flight of a herd of frightened animals, especially cattle or horses.
- stanhope — James, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.
- stapelia — any of various plants of the genus Stapelia, of the milkweed family, native to southern Africa, having short, fleshy, leafless stems, and flowers that are oddly colored or mottled and in most species emit a fetid, carrionlike odor.
- steam up — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- steapsin — the lipase present in pancreatic juice.
- steep-up — very steep or perpendicular
- steepest — having an almost vertical slope or pitch, or a relatively high gradient, as a hill, an ascent, stairs, etc.
- steeping — to soak in water or other liquid, as to soften, cleanse, or extract some constituent: to steep tea in boiling-hot water; to steep reeds for basket weaving.
- steepish — somewhat or a little steep
- steepled — an ornamental construction, usually ending in a spire, erected on a roof or tower of a church, public building, etc.