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10-letter words containing a, l, i, p

  • roach clip — a small tweezerlike clip for holding the butt of a marijuana cigarette.
  • sailplaner — a person who flies sailplanes
  • saint paul — Saint, died a.d. c67, a missionary and apostle to the gentiles: author of several of the Epistles. Compare Saul (def 2).
  • sale price — discounted cost
  • sales slip — a receipt or other slip of paper issued by a store or other vendor showing where a purchase was made and also the amount, date, department, etc.
  • salpingian — a trumpet-shaped tube, as a Fallopian or Eustachian tube.
  • san felipe — a city in NE Venezuela, on the Orinoco River.
  • sapiential — containing, exhibiting, or affording wisdom; characterized by wisdom.
  • sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
  • scalloping — any of the bivalve mollusks of the genus Argopecten (Pecten) and related genera that swim by rapidly clapping the fluted shell valves together.
  • scallopini — scallops, especially of veal, flattened by pounding and usually dredged in flour or breadcrumbs and sautéed quickly: scaloppine alla Marsala.
  • scaloppine — scallops, especially of veal, flattened by pounding and usually dredged in flour or breadcrumbs and sautéed quickly: scaloppine alla Marsala.
  • scampishly — in a scampish manner
  • scriptural — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
  • seal point — a Siamese cat having a fawn-colored body and dark-brown points.
  • seal-point — a Siamese cat having a fawn-colored body and dark-brown points.
  • semipostal — a postage stamp sold by a government at a premium above its face value, the excess being used for a nonpostal purpose, as a charity.
  • septennial — occurring every seven years.
  • septicidal — (of a capsule) dehiscing lengthwise along a septum.
  • ship canal — a canal navigable by ships.
  • shiplapped — of, related to, or resembling shiplap
  • shopaholic — a frequent shopper, especially one who is unable to control his or her spending.
  • side plate — a small plate used for bread or other accompaniments to a meal
  • silk paper — paper that contains silk fibers and is sometimes used for printing postage stamps and revenue stamps.
  • simple arc — a curve that does not cross itself and has no points missing; a curve that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the closed interval from 0 to 1.
  • simplicial — relating to simplexes
  • slash pine — a pine, Pinus elliotii, found in slashes and swamps in the southeastern U.S., yielding a hard, durable wood.
  • slave ship — a ship for transporting slaves from their native homes to places of bondage.
  • slavophile — a person who greatly admires the Slavs and Slavic ways.
  • slip a cog — (not in technical use) a gear tooth, formerly especially one of hardwood or metal, fitted into a slot in a gearwheel of less durable material.
  • slip gauge — a very accurately ground block of hardened steel used to measure a gap with close accuracy: used mainly in tool-making and inspection
  • slipstream — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
  • slop basin — a basin or bowl into which the dregs, leaves, and grounds of teacups and coffee cups are emptied at the table.
  • small pica — (formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 11 point
  • snappingly — involving a snap
  • snappishly — in a sharp or irritable manner
  • solar ship — (in ancient Egypt) a boat placed in or near the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
  • sopaipilla — a small pastry made of deep-fried yeast dough and usually dipped in honey.
  • spaciality — spatial.
  • spallation — a nuclear reaction in which several nucleons are released from the nucleus of an atom.
  • spaniolize — to cause to become Spanish
  • spankingly — in a spanking manner
  • spark coil — a coil of many turns of insulated wire on an iron core, used for producing sparks.
  • sparkishly — in a sparkish manner
  • sparkliest — tending to sparkle; animated; lively: a row of sparkly cheerleaders.
  • spatiality — of or relating to space.
  • speakingly — in an eloquent manner
  • specialise — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
  • specialism — devotion or restriction to a particular pursuit, branch of study, etc.
  • specialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
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