8-letter words containing sp
- hesperus — an evening star, especially Venus.
- highspot — highlight
- hispania — Spain.
- hispanic — Spanish.
- hispano- — Hispanic
- homespun — spun or made at home: homespun cloth.
- hospices — Plural form of hospice.
- hospital — an institution in which sick or injured persons are given medical or surgical treatment.
- hospodar — a former title of governors or princes of Wallachia and Moldavia.
- hot spot — 1. (primarily used by C/Unix programmers, but spreading) It is received wisdom that in most programs, less than 10% of the code eats 90% of the execution time; if one were to graph instruction visits versus code addresses, one would typically see a few huge spikes amidst a lot of low-level noise. Such spikes are called "hot spots" and are good candidates for heavy optimisation or hand-hacking. The term is especially used of tight loops and recursions in the code's central algorithm, as opposed to (say) initial set-up costs or large but infrequent I/O operations. See tune, bum, hand-hacking. 2. The active location of a cursor on a bit-map display. "Put the mouse's hot spot on the "ON" widget and click the left button." 3. A screen region that is sensitive to mouse clicks, which trigger some action. Hypertext help screens are an example, in which a hot spot exists in the vicinity of any word for which additional material is available. 4. In a massively parallel computer with shared memory, the one location that all 10,000 processors are trying to read or write at once (perhaps because they are all doing a busy-wait on the same lock). 5. More generally, any place in a hardware design that turns into a performance bottleneck due to resource contention. 6. wireless hotspot.
- hot-spot — to stop (a forest fire) at a hot spot.
- hotspots — Plural form of hotspot.
- hotspurs — Plural form of hotspur.
- in spate — When a river is in spate it contains a lot more water than usual and is flowing very fast.
- in sport — in joke or jest; not in earnest
- inspects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inspect.
- insphere — ensphere.
- inspired — aroused, animated, or imbued with the spirit to do something, by or as if by supernatural or divine influence: an inspired poet.
- inspirer — to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence: His courage inspired his followers.
- inspires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inspire.
- inspirit — to infuse spirit or life into; enliven.
- isospins — Plural form of isospin.
- isospory — the condition of having spores of only one kind
- kalispel — a Salishan language used by the Flathead Indians of Montana and by some neighboring tribes in Idaho and the western part of Washington.
- kasparov — Gary or Garry, born 1963, Armenian chess player.
- keyspell — (text, tool, education) A spell checker and teaching aid from UK company KeySpell Limited for Microsoft Windows. KeySpell offers a selection of phonetically similar words, phrases, confusable terms, and examples in context. Even correctly spelt homophones can be checked. KeySpell can be run with Microsoft Word 97 or stand-alone. It includes 225,000 words and phrases and can use subsets of these.
- langspel — a long and narrow old or traditional Scandinavian stringed instrument, played with the fingers and not a bow
- larkspur — a town in W California.
- lickspit — a contemptible, fawning person; a servile flatterer or toady.
- lifespan — the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it.
- linkspan — a hinged bridge on a quay, used to move vehicles on or off a vessel
- lisp 1.5 — The second version of Lisp, successor to LISP 1. Developed at MIT in 1959. Followed by LISP 1.75, LISP 1.9, Lisp 2 and many other versions.
- lispound — a unit of weight, formerly used in Orkney, Shetland, and Baltic trade, varying from 12 to 34 pounds (5.4 to 15.4kg approx)
- lisptalk — "Concurrent Programming Language Lisptalk", C. Li, SIGPLAN Notices 23(4):71-80 (Apr 1988).
- lispview — CLOS based windowing system on OpenWindows.
- longspur — any of several fringillid birds of the genus Calcarius of tundra or prairie regions of North America, characterized by a long spurlike hind claw on each foot.
- marsport — a spoilsport
- midspace — an area between two celestial objects
- mispaint — to paint badly or wrongly
- misparse — To parse incorrectly.
- mispatch — to patch wrongly
- misplace — to put in a wrong place.
- misplant — to plant badly or wrongly
- misplead — To plead amiss or in a wrong manner; err in pleading.
- mispoint — (transitive) To point improperly; to punctuate wrongly.
- mispoise — lack of poise
- misprice — To price incorrectly or unsuitably.
- misprint — a mistake in printing, as an instance of printing a letter or word other than that intended.
- misprise — to despise; undervalue; slight; scorn.
- misprize — to despise; undervalue; slight; scorn.