8-letter words starting with SP
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter SP. This section showcases how SP at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with SP, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| speaking | 15 | delivering an address to a public audience | - |
| spending | 12 | the act of spending or disbursing money | - |
| specific | 17 | a fact about some part (as opposed to general) | - |
| spinning | 11 | creating thread | - |
| splendid | 12 | very good; of the highest quality | he was a splendid teacher |
| speeding | 12 | changing location rapidly | - |
| spitting | 11 | the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva) | - |
| spelling | 11 | forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage | - |
| specimen | 14 | a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes | they collected a urine specimen for urinalysis |
| spoiling | 11 | the process of becoming spoiled | - |
| sporting | 11 | exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | a sporting solution of the disagreement |
| spilling | 11 | - | - |
| spanking | 15 | quick and energetic | a spanking breeze |
| spacious | 12 | (of buildings and rooms) having ample space | a spacious ballroom |
| spectrum | 14 | a broad range of related objects or values or qualities or ideas or activities | - |
| spirited | 11 | made lively or spirited | a spirited debate |
| spraying | 14 | a quantity of small objects flying through the air | - |
| splinter | 10 | a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal | he got a splinter in his finger |
| spotless | 10 | completely neat and clean | - |
| splendor | 11 | a quality that outshines the usual | - |
| sprinkle | 14 | a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | - |
| sparring | 11 | making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer | - |
| spinster | 10 | an elderly unmarried woman | - |
| springer | 11 | a large spaniel with wavy silky coat usually black or liver and white | - |
| spotting | 11 | the act of detecting something; catching sight of something | - |
| splashed | 14 | covered with bright patches (often used in combination) | gardens splashed with color |
| spiteful | 13 | showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite | a despiteful fiend |
| spouting | 11 | propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | - |
| splatter | 10 | the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | - |
| speedway | 17 | a racetrack for racing automobiles or motorcycles | - |
| spaceman | 14 | a person trained to travel in a spacecraft | - |
| sprouted | 11 | (of growing vegetation) having just emerged from the ground | the corn is sprouted |
| spoonful | 13 | as much as a spoon will hold | - |
| spritzer | 19 | a mixed drink made of wine mixed with a sparkling water | - |
| spectral | 12 | resembling or characteristic of a phantom | spectral emanations |
| spitfire | 13 | a highly emotional and quick-tempered person (especially a girl or woman) | - |
| sprinter | 10 | someone who runs a short distance at top speed | - |
| spanning | 11 | - | - |
| sporadic | 13 | recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances | a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids |
| splicing | 13 | a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together | - |
| spyglass | 14 | a small refracting telescope | - |
| spangled | 12 | covered with beads or jewels or sequins | - |
| spearman | 12 | - | - |
| specious | 12 | plausible but false | a specious claim |
| speculum | 14 | a medical instrument for dilating a bodily passage or cavity in order to examine the interior | - |
| sponging | 12 | - | - |
| spurious | 10 | plausible but false | spurious inferences |
| spurting | 11 | propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | - |
| sphinxes | 20 | - | - |
| spiraled | 11 | - | - |
| spittoon | 10 | a receptacle for spit (usually in a public place) | - |
| spreader | 11 | a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions | - |
| speckled | 17 | having a pattern of dots | - |
| splitter | 10 | a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences | - |
| speedily | 14 | with speed | - |
| spitball | 12 | an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it | - |
| sparkler | 14 | diamonds | - |
| spillage | 11 | the act of allowing a fluid to escape | - |
| sparsely | 13 | in a sparse way | sparsely inhabited |
| sprocket | 16 | tooth on the rim of gear wheel | - |
| spoilage | 11 | the process of becoming spoiled | - |
| sprucing | 13 | - | - |
| sparerib | 12 | a cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off | - |
| sportive | 13 | given to merry frolicking | - |
| spandrel | 11 | an approximately triangular surface area between two adjacent arches and the horizontal plane above them | - |
| spiffing | 17 | excellent or splendid | that's a perfectly spiffing idea |
| spookily | 17 | in an unnatural eery manner | - |
| spurring | 11 | a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | - |
| spectate | 12 | be a spectator in a sports event | - |
| spillway | 16 | a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction | - |
| splutter | 10 | utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage | - |
| spumante | 12 | - | - |
| spacelab | 14 | - | - |
| spacemen | 14 | - | - |
| spaciest | 12 | - | - |
| spacings | 13 | - | - |
| spackled | 17 | - | - |
| spackles | 16 | - | - |
| spadeful | 14 | the quantity a shovel can hold | - |
| spademan | 13 | - | - |
| spademen | 13 | - | - |
| spadgers | 12 | - | - |
| spadices | 13 | - | - |
| spadille | 11 | - | - |
| spadillo | 11 | - | - |
| spadixes | 18 | - | - |
| spadones | 11 | - | - |
| spadroon | 11 | - | - |
| spaeings | 11 | - | - |
| spaetzle | 19 | - | - |
| spaewife | 16 | - | - |
| spageric | 13 | - | - |
| spagging | 13 | - | - |
| spagiric | 13 | - | - |
| spagyric | 16 | - | - |
| spaining | 11 | - | - |
| spairged | 12 | - | - |
| spairges | 11 | - | - |
| spaldeen | 11 | - | - |
| spallers | 10 | - | - |
| spalling | 11 | - | - |
| spalpeen | 12 | - | - |
| spalting | 11 | - | - |
| spambots | 14 | - | - |
| spammers | 14 | - | - |
| spammier | 14 | - | - |
| spammies | 14 | - | - |
| spamming | 15 | - | - |
| spancels | 12 | - | - |
| spandril | 11 | an approximately triangular surface area between two adjacent arches and the horizontal plane above them | - |
| spanghew | 17 | - | - |
| spanging | 12 | - | - |
| spangler | 11 | - | - |
| spangles | 11 | - | - |
| spanglet | 11 | - | - |
| spaniels | 10 | - | - |
| spankers | 14 | - | - |
| spanless | 10 | - | - |
| spanners | 10 | - | - |
| spanspek | 16 | - | - |
| spansule | 10 | - | - |
| spanworm | 15 | - | - |
| sparable | 12 | - | - |
| sparaxis | 17 | deciduous perennial herbs of South Africa | - |
| spargers | 11 | - | - |
| sparging | 12 | - | - |
| sparkers | 14 | - | - |
| sparkier | 14 | - | - |
| sparkies | 14 | - | - |
| sparkily | 17 | - | - |
| sparking | 15 | - | - |
| sparkish | 17 | - | - |
| sparkled | 15 | - | - |
| sparkles | 14 | - | - |
| sparklet | 14 | - | - |
| sparlike | 14 | - | - |
| sparling | 11 | the common smelt of Europe | - |
| sparoids | 11 | - | - |
| sparrers | 10 | - | - |
| sparrier | 10 | - | - |
| sparrows | 13 | - | - |
| sparsest | 10 | - | - |
| sparsity | 13 | the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness | - |
| spartans | 10 | - | - |
| sparthes | 13 | - | - |
| spartina | 10 | grass of freshwater swamps and salt marshes of Europe, Africa, America, and South Atlantic islands | - |
| spasming | 13 | - | - |
| spastics | 12 | - | - |
| spatfall | 13 | - | - |
| spathose | 13 | - | - |
| spatlese | 10 | - | - |
| spattees | 10 | - | - |
| spatters | 10 | - | - |
| spatting | 11 | - | - |
| spatular | 10 | - | - |
| spatulas | 10 | - | - |
| spatules | 10 | - | - |
| spatzles | 19 | - | - |
| spavined | 14 | (of horses) afflicted with a swelling of the hock-joint | - |
| spawling | 14 | - | - |
| spawners | 13 | - | - |
| spawnier | 13 | - | - |
| spawning | 14 | - | - |
| spazzing | 29 | - | - |
| speakers | 14 | - | - |
| speakout | 14 | - | - |
| speaning | 11 | - | - |
| spearers | 10 | - | - |
| speargun | 11 | - | - |
| spearier | 10 | - | - |
| spearing | 11 | - | - |
| spearmen | 12 | - | - |
| speccier | 14 | - | - |
| speccies | 14 | - | - |
| speccing | 15 | - | - |
| specials | 12 | - | - |
| speciate | 12 | evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment | - |
| speckier | 16 | - | - |
| speckies | 16 | - | - |
| specking | 17 | - | - |
| speckles | 16 | - | - |
| specters | 12 | - | - |
| specting | 13 | - | - |
| spectres | 12 | - | - |
| spectrin | 12 | - | - |
| specular | 12 | capable of reflecting light like a mirror | a specular metal |
| speeched | 16 | - | - |
| speeches | 15 | - | - |
| speeders | 11 | - | - |
| speedful | 14 | - | - |
| speedier | 11 | - | - |
| speedups | 13 | - | - |
| speelers | 10 | - | - |
| speeling | 11 | - | - |
| speering | 11 | - | - |
| speiling | 11 | - | - |
| speiring | 11 | - | - |
| speisses | 10 | - | - |
| spekboom | 18 | - | - |
| spelaean | 10 | - | - |
| spelders | 11 | - | - |
| spelding | 12 | - | - |
| speldins | 11 | - | - |
| speldrin | 11 | - | - |
| spellers | 10 | - | - |
| spellful | 13 | - | - |
| spelters | 10 | - | - |
| speltzes | 19 | - | - |
| spelunks | 14 | - | - |
| spencers | 12 | - | - |
| spendall | 11 | - | - |
| spenders | 11 | - | - |
| spendier | 11 | - | - |
| sperling | 11 | - | - |
| spermary | 15 | - | - |
| spermine | 12 | - | - |
| spermous | 12 | consisting of or resembling spermatozoa | - |
| sperring | 11 | - | - |
| spersing | 11 | - | - |
| sperthes | 13 | - | - |
| spetched | 16 | - | - |
| spetches | 15 | - | - |
| spetsnaz | 19 | - | - |
| spetting | 11 | - | - |
| spetznaz | 28 | - | - |
| spewiest | 13 | - | - |
| sphaeres | 13 | - | - |
| sphagnum | 16 | any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat | - |
| sphairee | 13 | - | - |
| spheares | 13 | - | - |
| sphenoid | 14 | butterfly-shaped bone at the base of the skull | - |
| spherics | 15 | - | - |
| spherier | 13 | - | - |
| sphering | 14 | - | - |
| spheroid | 14 | a shape that is generated by rotating an ellipse around one of its axes | it looked like a sphere but on closer examination I saw it was really a spheroid |
| spherule | 13 | a small sphere | - |
| sphinges | 14 | - | - |
| sphingid | 15 | any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed | - |
| sphygmic | 21 | - | - |
| sphygmus | 19 | - | - |
| sphynxes | 23 | - | - |
| spicated | 13 | - | - |
| spiccato | 14 | bowing in such a way that the bow bounces lightly off the strings | - |
| spiciest | 12 | - | - |
| spickest | 16 | - | - |
| spicknel | 16 | - | - |
| spiculae | 12 | - | - |
| spicular | 12 | - | - |
| spicules | 12 | - | - |
| spiculum | 14 | small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals | - |
| spidered | 12 | - | - |
| spiegels | 11 | - | - |
| spielers | 10 | - | - |
| spieling | 11 | - | - |
| spiering | 11 | - | - |
| spiffied | 17 | - | - |
| spiffier | 16 | - | - |
| spiffies | 16 | - | - |
| spiffily | 19 | - | - |
| spighted | 15 | - | - |
| spignels | 11 | - | - |
| spikelet | 14 | a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | - |
| spikiest | 14 | - | - |
| spilikin | 14 | - | - |
| spilings | 11 | - | - |
| spilites | 10 | - | - |
| spilitic | 12 | - | - |
| spillers | 10 | - | - |
| spimmers | 14 | - | - |
| spimming | 15 | - | - |
| spinachy | 18 | - | - |
| spinages | 11 | - | - |
| spinally | 13 | in the spine | spinally administered |
| spindled | 12 | - | - |
| spindler | 11 | - | - |
| spindles | 11 | - | - |
| spinelle | 10 | - | - |
| spinette | 10 | - | - |
| spiniest | 10 | - | - |
| spinifex | 20 | - | - |
| spinking | 15 | - | - |
| spinless | 10 | - | - |
| spinners | 10 | - | - |
| spinnery | 13 | - | - |
| spinnets | 10 | - | - |
| spinneys | 13 | - | - |
| spinnier | 10 | - | - |
| spinnies | 10 | - | - |
| spinodes | 11 | - | - |
| spinoffs | 16 | - | - |
| spinouts | 10 | - | - |
| spintext | 17 | - | - |
| spinulae | 10 | - | - |
| spinules | 10 | - | - |
| spiracle | 12 | a breathing orifice | - |
| spiraeas | 10 | - | - |
| spirally | 13 | with spirals | spirally fluted handles |
| spirants | 10 | - | - |
| spirated | 11 | - | - |
| spirelet | 10 | - | - |
| spiremes | 12 | - | - |
| spiriest | 10 | - | - |
| spirilla | 10 | any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form | - |
| spiritus | 10 | - | - |
| spirling | 11 | - | - |
| spirting | 11 | - | - |
| spirtles | 10 | - | - |
| spirulae | 10 | - | - |
| spirulas | 10 | - | - |
| spitcher | 15 | - | - |
| spitters | 10 | - | - |
| spittier | 10 | - | - |
| spittles | 10 | - | - |
| spivvery | 19 | - | - |
| spivvier | 16 | - | - |
| spivvish | 19 | - | - |
| splasher | 13 | protective covering consisting of a panel to protect people from the splashing water or mud etc. | - |
| splashes | 13 | - | - |
| splatted | 11 | - | - |
| splaying | 14 | - | - |
| splenial | 10 | - | - |
| splenium | 12 | - | - |
| splenius | 10 | either of two flat muscles that extend from the upper vertebrae to the base of the skull and serve to rotate or flex or extend the head and neck | - |
| splicers | 12 | - | - |
| splining | 11 | - | - |
| splinted | 11 | - | - |
| splished | 14 | - | - |
| splishes | 13 | - | - |
| splitted | 11 | - | - |
| splodged | 13 | - | - |
| splodges | 12 | - | - |
| sploshed | 14 | - | - |
| sploshes | 13 | - | - |
| splotchy | 18 | - | - |
| splurged | 12 | - | - |
| splurger | 11 | - | - |
| splurges | 11 | - | - |
| splurted | 11 | - | - |
| spoddier | 12 | - | - |
| spodiums | 13 | - | - |
| spodosol | 11 | - | - |
| spoffish | 19 | - | - |
| spoilers | 10 | - | - |
| spoilful | 13 | - | - |
| spoliate | 10 | - | - |
| spondaic | 13 | of or consisting of spondees | spondaic hexameter |
| spondees | 11 | - | - |
| spondyls | 14 | - | - |
| spongers | 11 | - | - |
| spongier | 11 | - | - |
| spongily | 14 | - | - |
| spongins | 11 | - | - |
| spongoid | 12 | - | - |
| sponsing | 11 | - | - |
| sponsion | 10 | - | - |
| sponsons | 10 | - | - |
| sponsors | 10 | - | - |
| spontoon | 10 | - | - |
| spoofers | 13 | - | - |
| spoofery | 16 | - | - |
| spoofier | 13 | - | - |
| spoofing | 14 | - | - |
| spookery | 17 | - | - |
| spookier | 14 | - | - |
| spooking | 15 | - | - |
| spookish | 17 | - | - |
| spoolers | 10 | - | - |
| spooling | 11 | - | - |
| spooming | 13 | - | - |
| spooners | 10 | - | - |
| spooneys | 13 | - | - |
| spoonfed | 14 | - | - |
| spoonier | 10 | - | - |
| spoonies | 10 | - | - |
| spoonily | 13 | - | - |
| spooning | 11 | - | - |
| spoorers | 10 | - | - |
| spooring | 11 | - | - |
| sporidia | 11 | - | - |
| sporozoa | 19 | strictly parasitic protozoans that are usually immobile; includes plasmodia and coccidia and piroplasms and malaria parasites | - |
| sporrans | 10 | - | - |
| sporters | 10 | - | - |
| sportful | 13 | - | - |
| sportier | 10 | - | - |
| sporties | 10 | - | - |
| sportifs | 13 | - | - |
| sportily | 13 | - | - |
| sporular | 10 | - | - |
| sporules | 10 | - | - |
| sposhier | 13 | - | - |
| spotters | 10 | - | - |
| spottier | 10 | - | - |
| spotties | 10 | - | - |
| spottily | 13 | - | - |
| spousage | 11 | - | - |
| spousals | 10 | - | - |
| spousing | 11 | - | - |
| spouters | 10 | - | - |
| spoutier | 10 | - | - |
| sprackle | 16 | - | - |
| spraddle | 12 | - | - |
| spragged | 13 | - | - |
| sprained | 11 | - | - |
| spraints | 10 | - | - |
| sprangle | 11 | - | - |
| sprattle | 10 | - | - |
| sprauncy | 15 | - | - |
| sprawled | 14 | - | - |
| sprawler | 13 | a person who sprawls | he is such a sprawler he needs a bed to himself |
| sprayers | 13 | - | - |
| sprayier | 13 | - | - |
| spreaghs | 14 | - | - |
| spreathe | 13 | - | - |
| spreazed | 20 | - | - |
| spreazes | 19 | - | - |
| spredden | 12 | - | - |
| spreddes | 12 | - | - |
| spreeing | 11 | - | - |
| spreethe | 13 | - | - |
| spreezed | 20 | - | - |
| spreezes | 19 | - | - |
| sprented | 11 | - | - |
| sprigged | 13 | decorated with designs of sprigs | sprigged muslin |
| sprigger | 12 | a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books | - |
| sprights | 14 | - | - |
| springal | 11 | - | - |
| springed | 12 | - | - |
| springes | 11 | - | - |
| springle | 11 | - | - |
| sprinted | 11 | - | - |
| spritely | 13 | - | - |
| spritzed | 20 | - | - |
| spritzes | 19 | - | - |
| spritzig | 20 | - | - |
| sproglet | 11 | - | - |
| sprucely | 15 | in a stylish manner | - |
| sprucest | 12 | - | - |
| sprucier | 12 | - | - |
| spruiked | 15 | - | - |
| spruiker | 14 | - | - |
| sprushed | 14 | - | - |
| sprushes | 13 | - | - |
| spryness | 13 | - | - |
| spudders | 12 | - | - |
| spuddier | 12 | - | - |
| spudding | 13 | - | - |
| spuddles | 12 | - | - |
| spudgels | 12 | - | - |
| spuggies | 12 | - | - |
| spuilzie | 19 | - | - |
| spulyied | 14 | - | - |
| spulyies | 13 | - | - |
| spulzied | 20 | - | - |
| spulzies | 19 | - | - |
| spumiest | 12 | - | - |
| spumones | 12 | - | - |
| spumonis | 12 | - | - |
| spunkier | 14 | - | - |
| spunkies | 14 | - | - |
| spunkily | 17 | - | - |
| spunking | 15 | - | - |
| spunyarn | 13 | - | - |
| spurdogs | 12 | - | - |
| spurgall | 11 | - | - |
| spurless | 10 | - | - |
| spurlike | 14 | - | - |
| spurling | 11 | - | - |
| spurners | 10 | - | - |
| spurning | 11 | - | - |
| spurrers | 10 | - | - |
| spurreys | 13 | - | - |
| spurrier | 10 | - | - |
| spurries | 10 | - | - |
| spurters | 10 | - | - |
| spurtles | 10 | - | - |
| spurways | 16 | - | - |
| sputniks | 14 | - | - |
| sputters | 10 | - | - |
| sputtery | 13 | - | - |
| spyholes | 16 | - | - |
| spyplane | 15 | - | - |
| spywares | 16 | - | - |
