8-letter words containing a, s, u, p, l
- plausive — applauding.
- playsuit — a sports costume for women and children, usually consisting of shorts and a shirt, worn as beachwear, for tennis, etc.
- pleasure — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pliosaur — a large dinosaur with a short neck
- plussage — a surplus amount.
- postural — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- pucellas — a tool resembling tongs or shears for handling and shaping molten glass.
- pulsator — something that pulsates, beats, or throbs.
- purslane — a low, trailing plant, Portulaca oleracea, having yellow flowers, used as a salad plant and potherb. Compare purslane family.
- pushball — a game played with a large, heavy ball, usually about 6 feet (1.8 meters) in diameter, which two sides attempt to push to opposite goals.
- pustular — of, relating to, or of the nature of pustules.
- scale up — increase in size
- scalprum — a large scalpel
- scapular — of or relating to the shoulders or the scapula or scapulae.
- sholapur — a city in S Maharashtra state, in SW India.
- skullcap — a small, brimless close-fitting cap, often made of silk or velvet, worn on the crown of the head, as for religious functions.
- slack up — to go more slowly
- snarl up — To snarl something up means to cause problems which prevent it continuing or making progress.
- spadeful — the amount that can be dug out with or carried on a spade.
- spansule — a modified-release capsule of a drug
- spaulder — a pauldron, especially one for protecting only a shoulder.
- specular — pertaining to or having the properties of a mirror.
- spicular — relating to or characteristic of spicula
- sporular — a spore, especially a small one.
- st. paul — Saint, died a.d. c67, a missionary and apostle to the gentiles: author of several of the Epistles. Compare Saul (def 2).
- stipular — of or like a stipule or stipules
- subpanel — a panel that is part of a larger panel
- subplant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- subpolar — subantarctic.
- sulphate — A sulphate is a salt of sulphuric acid.
- sun lamp — a lamp that generates ultraviolet rays, used as a therapeutic device, for obtaining an artificial suntan, etc.
- supernal — being in or belonging to the heaven of divine beings; heavenly, celestial, or divine.
- supplant — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- supplial — the act or an instance of supplying
- supposal — the act of supposing.
- unlapsed — no longer committed to or following the tenets of a particular belief, obligation, position, etc.: a lapsed Catholic.