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13-letter words containing a, i, r, p, s, g

  • sporting lady — a prostitute.
  • sportscasting — the reporting of a sports event by radio or television broadcast.
  • spring a leak — to develop a leak
  • spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
  • spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
  • spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
  • springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
  • stage whisper — a loud whisper on a stage, meant to be heard by the audience.
  • standing crop — the totality of living things in an ecosystem at a given time.
  • stargazey pie — a Cornish fish pie served with the head of the fish protruding through the crust
  • starting post — the upright pole marking the beginning of a racecourse
  • staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
  • stepparenting — parenting within a stepfamily
  • stork parking — spaces reserved in a parking lot for cars driven by pregnant women or new mothers.
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • stratigraphic — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
  • string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
  • supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
  • supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
  • superorganism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
  • superregional — involving many regions
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • thigh-slapper — a very funny joke, remark, story, or incident.
  • trading stamp — a stamp with a certain value given as a premium by a retailer to a customer, specified quantities of these stamps being exchangeable for various articles.
  • training ship — a ship equipped for training novices in seamanship, as for naval service.
  • trainspotting — hobby: observing trains
  • transshipping — to transfer from one ship, truck, freight car, or other conveyance to another.
  • untrespassing — not trespassing or infringing
  • watering spot — watering hole
  • zoosporangium — a sporangium or spore case in which zoospores are produced.
  • zygosporangia — a sporangium that bears a zygospore.
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