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8-letter words containing sp

  • respread — to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
  • respring — to rise, leap, move, or act suddenly and swiftly, as by a sudden dart or thrust forward or outward, or being suddenly released from a coiled or constrained position: to spring into the air; a tiger about to spring.
  • resprout — to begin to grow; shoot forth, as a plant from a seed.
  • rispetto — a form of folk verse from Tuscany
  • sandspur — an American wild grass
  • sea wasp — any of various highly poisonous stinging jellyfishes of the order Cubomedusae, of tropical seas.
  • seaspeak — the language used by sailors to ease communication between ships
  • sidespin — a spinning motion imparted to a ball that causes it to rotate in course about its vertical axis.
  • sit spin — a spin performed on one skate, in which the skater slowly squats down into a sitting position, with the other leg extended out in front.
  • six-spot — a playing card or the upward face of a die bearing six pips.
  • spa bath — whirlpool, jacuzzi, hot tub
  • spa town — a town where water comes out of the ground and people come to drink it or lie in it because they think it will improve their health
  • spacelab — a manned laboratory in space, developed by the European Space Agency, carried aboard an orbiting space shuttle.
  • spaceman — an astronaut.
  • spacewar — (games)   A space-combat simulation game for the PDP-1 written in 1960-61 by Steve Russell, an employee at MIT. SPACEWAR was inspired by E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and jumping through hyperspace. MIT were wondering what to do with a new vector video display so Steve wrote the world's first video game. Steve now lives in California and still writes software for HC12 emulators. SPACEWAR aficionados formed the core of the early hacker culture at MIT. Nine years later, a descendant of the game motivated Ken Thompson to build, in his spare time on a scavenged PDP-7, the operating system that became Unix. Less than nine years after that, SPACEWAR was commercialised as one of the first video games; descendants are still feeping in video arcades everywhere.
  • spacings — an act of someone or something that spaces.
  • spacious — containing much space, as a house, room, or vehicle; amply large.
  • spadeful — the amount that can be dug out with or carried on a spade.
  • spademan — a man who works with spade
  • spadille — the highest trump in certain card games, as the queen of clubs in omber.
  • spadroon — a type of sword
  • spaetzle — a dish consisting of lumps or threads made from a batter of flour, milk, eggs, and salt, usually poured through a coarse colander into boiling water, and then either drained and mixed in butter, lightly pan-fried, or added to sauces, stews, etc.
  • spaewife — a woman who foretells the future
  • spagyric — pertaining to or resembling alchemy; alchemic.
  • spaldeen — a smooth, pink rubber ball used in playing catch, stickball, etc.
  • spalding — Albert, 1888–1953, U.S. violinist.
  • spalling — a chip or splinter, as of stone or ore.
  • spalpeen — a lad or boy.
  • spamming — (lowercase) Digital Technology. disruptive online messages, especially commercial messages posted on a computer network or sent as email (often used attributively): Install spam blocker software and keep your email spam filters updated to protect your accounts from unsolicited spam.
  • span-new — brand-new.
  • spandrel — Architecture. an area between the extradoses of two adjoining arches, or between the extrados of an arch and a perpendicular through the extrados at the springing line.
  • spanghew — to throw into the air
  • 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
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