8-letter words containing spi
- spiffing — to reward (a salesperson) with a spiff.
- spike up — a naillike fastener, 3 to 12 inches (7.6 to 30.5 cm) long and proportionately thicker than a common nail, for fastening together heavy timbers or railroad track.
- spikelet — a small or secondary spike in grasses; one of the flower clusters, the unit of inflorescence, consisting of two or more flowers and subtended by one or more glumes variously disposed around a common axis.
- spilitic — relating to spilite
- spillage — the act or process of spilling.
- spillane — Mickey (Frank Morrison) 1918–2006, U.S. detective novelist.
- spillway — a passageway through which surplus water escapes from a reservoir, lake, or the like.
- spimming — a type of spam that is sent by means of instant messaging.
- spin off — the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- spin out — the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- spin-dry — to remove moisture from (laundry) by centrifugal force, as in an automatic washing machine.
- spin-off — Commerce. a process of reorganizing a corporate structure whereby the capital stock of a division or subsidiary of a corporation or of a newly affiliated company is transferred to the stockholders of the parent corporation without an exchange of any part of the stock of the latter. Compare split-off (def 3), split-up (def 3).
- spin-out — the spinning out of control into a rotating skid of a car or other vehicle.
- spinachy — characteristic of spinach
- spindled — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- spindler — a person who spindles
- spingarn — Joel Elias, 1875–1939, U.S. literary critic, publisher, and editor.
- spinifex — any of several Australian grasses of the genera Spinifex, Plectrachne, or Triodia, having spiny seeds and stiff, sharp-pointed leaves that grow in dense masses.
- spinless — having no spin
- spinnery — a spinning mill.
- spinning — the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- spinster — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- spintext — a preacher
- spiracle — a breathing hole; an opening by which a confined space has communication with the outer air; air hole.
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- spirelet — a small spire, as on a turret.
- spirifer — any of various fossil brachiopods of the genus Spirifer having spirals on each side
- spirilla — any of several spirally twisted, aerobic bacteria of the genus Spirillum, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans.
- spirited — pertaining to something that works by burning alcoholic spirits: a spirit stove.
- spiritus — a spirit or breathing
- spit out — eject by spitting
- spitball — a small ball or lump of chewed paper used as a missile.
- spitcher — the end or finish
- spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- spitfire — a person, especially a girl or woman, who is of fiery temper and easily provoked to outbursts.
- spithead — a roadstead off the S coast of England between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
- spitting — to eject saliva from the mouth; expectorate.
- spittoon — a cuspidor.
- spivvery — the characteristic behaviour of a spiv
- tailspin — spin (def 23).
- thespiae — a city at the foot of Mount Helicon where, according to mythology, the Muses performed their games.
- thespian — (often lowercase) pertaining to tragedy or to the dramatic art in general.
- thespius — the founder of the city of Thespiae and the father, by Megamede, of 50 daughters, all of whom bore sons to Hercules.
- turnspit — a spit that rotates or can be rotated.
- unespied — unnoticed; not seen
- vespiary — a nest of social wasps.
- vorspiel — an introductory movement to a musical work, especially a prelude or overture.