8-letter words containing pa
- spangled — Something that is spangled is covered with small shiny objects.
- spangler — a person who spangles
- spanglet — a little spangle
- spaniard — a native or inhabitant of Spain.
- spanking — to strike (a person, usually a child) with the open hand, a slipper, etc., especially on the buttocks, as in punishment.
- spanless — impossible to span
- spanning — the distance between the tip of the thumb and the tip of the little finger when the hand is fully extended.
- spanrail — a rail connecting two legs of furniture; stretcher.
- spanspek — a sweet rough-skinned melon; a cantaloupe: family Cucurbitaceae
- spansule — a modified-release capsule of a drug
- spanworm — measuringworm.
- sparable — a small nail with no head, used for fixing the soles and heels of shoes
- sparaxis — any plant of the cormous S African genus Sparaxis, esp S. grandiflora and S. tricolor, grown for their dainty spikes of star-shaped purple, red, or orange flowers: family Iridaceae
- sparerib — a cut of pork ribs with most of the meat trimmed off
- sparkily — in a sparky manner
- sparkler — a person or thing that sparkles.
- sparklet — a small spark.
- sparlike — resembling a spar
- sparling — the European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus.
- sparring — a motion of sparring.
- sparsely — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- sparsity — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- spartina — a ricegrass which grows in salt marshes
- spatfall — a mass of larvae on the sea bed
- spathose — spathaceous.
- spätlese — type of German wine, usually white
- spaulder — a pauldron, especially one for protecting only a shoulder.
- spavined — suffering from or affected with spavin.
- spawning — Zoology. the mass of eggs deposited by fishes, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, etc.
- spaz out — an awkward or clumsy person.
- spazzing — an awkward or clumsy person.
- st. paul — Saint, died a.d. c67, a missionary and apostle to the gentiles: author of several of the Epistles. Compare Saul (def 2).
- standpat — standpatter.
- stoppage — an act or instance of stopping; cessation of activity: the stoppage of all work at the factory.
- stoppard — Tom (Thomas Straussler) born 1937, British playwright, born in the Czech Republic.
- stumpage — standing timber with reference to its value.
- subpanel — a panel that is part of a larger panel
- subspace — a smaller space within a main area that has been divided or subdivided: The jewelry shop occupies a subspace in the hotel's lobby.
- sunspace — sunroom.
- sympathy — harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
- sympatry — the occurrence of sympatric organisms
- syncopal — Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
- tapaculo — a small passeriform bird, Pteroptochus albicollis (megapodius), with short wings and cocked tail, native to South America
- tapadera — Southwestern U.S. a hoodlike piece of heavy leather around the front of the stirrup of a stock or range saddle to protect the rider's foot.
- tapadero — tapadera.
- tarpaper — a heavy, tar-coated paper used as a waterproofing material in building construction.
- taxpayer — a person who pays a tax or is subject to taxation.
- telepath — a student of or believer in telepathy.
- the park — a soccer pitch
- the past — the period of time or a segment of it that has elapsed