9-letter words containing a, l, s, p
- spillable — to cause or allow to run or fall from a container, especially accidentally or wastefully: to spill a bag of marbles; to spill milk.
- spinulate — having a spine or spines
- spiraling — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- spiralism — an individual's ascent in spiral structure
- spiralist — a person or thing that ascends in a spiral structure
- spirality — the spiral nature of a curve
- spiralled — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- spirillar — any of several spirally twisted, aerobic bacteria of the genus Spirillum, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans.
- spiritual — of, relating to, or consisting of spirit; incorporeal.
- spirulina — any of the blue-green algae of the genus Spirulina, sometimes added to food for its nutrient value.
- splayfoot — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- spleuchan — a small pouch, especially for carrying tobacco or money.
- split pea — a dried green pea, split and used especially for soup.
- splittail — a minnow, Pogonichthys macrolepidotus, of the Sacramento River, having the upper lobe of the tail much longer than the lower lobe: habitat changes have greatly reduced its numbers.
- spoilable — able to be spoiled
- spoilsman — a person who seeks or receives a share in political spoils.
- spoliator — a plunderer
- sponsalia — marriage; espousals
- sporidial — relating or belonging to one or more sporidia
- sporozoal — belonging or relating to Sporozoa
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- spottable — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- spraddled — to straddle.
- sprawling — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- sprekelia — a bulbous plant, Sprekelia formosissima, from Mexico and Guatemala, related to hippeastrum and grown for its striking crimson or white pendent flowers, in the form of a cross: family Amaryllidaceae
- sprigtail — the pintail, Anas acuta.
- springald — a youth; young fellow.
- spritsail — a sail extended by a sprit.
- spur gall — a hairless and indurated area or gall on the side of a horse, caused by the irritation of a spur.
- spur-gall — to scrape, rub or injure (a horse) with the spur when riding
- spy plane — an aircraft used to carry out surveillance of an enemy country or military formations from a high altitude
- stampless — without a stamp
- stapedial — the innermost, stirrup-shaped bone of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals, involved in the conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear. Also called stirrup. Compare incus (def 1), malleus.
- staphylo- — uvula
- stavropol — a territory of the Russian Federation in Europe, N of the Caucasus. 29,600 sq. mi. (76,960 sq. km).
- steel pan — steel drum.
- stipulate — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- stoopball — an American street game similar to baseball in which a ball is thrown against a wall or stoop
- stoppable — capable of being stopped.
- strap-oil — a beating
- strapless — without a strap or straps.
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
- subalpine — pertaining to the regions at the foot of the Alps.
- subapical — located below the apex.
- subprimal — (of meat) being a cut of meat larger than a steak, roast, or other single cut but smaller than a side of beef: shipped by the packer to local markets for final cutting to reduce processing costs and to retard spoilage.
- subsample — a specimen from or a small part of a sample.
- sugarplum — a small sweetmeat made of sugar with various flavoring and coloring ingredients; a bonbon.
- sulphatic — sulphuric, of or pertaining to a sulphate
- sulpician — a member of a society of secular priests founded in France in 1642, engaged chiefly in training men to teach in seminaries.