7-letter words containing spe
- spectre — a visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition.
- specula — a mirror or reflector, especially one of polished metal, as on a reflecting telescope.
- speeded — rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity: the speed of light; the speed of sound.
- speeder — a person or thing that speeds.
- speedex — Early system on IBM 701. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- speedup — acceleration
- speeler — an acrobat
- speldin — a fish that has been split and dried
- spelean — of, relating to, or inhabiting a cave or caves.
- spelled — to take the place of for a time; relieve: Let me spell you at the wheel.
- speller — a person who spells words.
- spelter — zinc, especially in the form of ingots.
- spelunk — to explore caves, especially as a hobby.
- spemann — Hans [hahns] /hɑns/ (Show IPA), 1869–1941, German zoologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1935.
- spencer — Charles, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, 1674–1722, British statesman: prime minister 1718–21.
- spender — Stephen, 1909–96, English poet and critic.
- spenser — Edmund, c1552–99, English poet.
- spented — simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- spermic — spermatic.
- spermo- — spermato-
- suspect — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- suspend — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
- unspeak — to recant; unsay.
- unspell — to break (a spell)
- unspent — not spent or used, as money.
- upspeak — to start speaking
- upspear — (of grass or plants) to grow upwards in a spear-like manner
- vespers — (initial capital letter) the evening star, especially Venus; Hesperus.
- whisper — to speak with soft, hushed sounds, using the breath, lips, etc., but with no vibration of the vocal cords.