11-letter words containing a, p, e, l
- spectrality — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
- speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- speculatist — a person who speculates
- speculative — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- speed metal — a style of heavy-metal music typically played at extremely fast tempos.
- sperm whale — a large, square-snouted whale, Physeter catodon, valued for its oil and spermaceti: now reduced in number and rare in some areas.
- spermicidal — that kills sperm
- spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
- spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
- spinsterial — relating to a spinster
- spiral gear — a type of helical gear used for transmitting power between shafts that are at an angle to each other.
- spirit lake — a lake in SW Washington, at the N foot of Mount St. Helens: site of devastation during 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens.
- split-phase — pertaining to or noting a current in one of two parallel circuits that have a single-phase current source but unequal impedances and that produce currents of different phase.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- spreadingly — in a spreading manner
- stalin peak — former name of Communism Peak.
- stanley cup — a trophy emblematic since 1926 of the championship of the National Hockey League, composed of Canadian and U.S. professional teams.
- steeplejack — a person who climbs steeples, towers, or the like, to build or repair them.
- stone plant — living stones.
- strandloper — a member of an extinct tribe of Khoikhoi or Bushmen who lived on seafood gathered on the beaches of southern Africa
- stroke play — medal play.
- subparallel — not quite parallel
- sugar apple — sweetsop.
- sugar maple — any of several maples having a sweet sap, especially Acer saccharum (the state tree of New York, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin), having a short trunk and long, curving branches, yielding a hard wood used for making furniture and being the chief source of maple sugar.
- superaltern — a universal proposition that is the basis for the immediate inference of a corresponding particular proposition.
- superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
- superficial — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- supergalaxy — a system of galaxies.
- superlative — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- superlawyer — an extremely successful lawyer
- superlunary — situated above or beyond the moon.
- supernormal — in excess of the normal or average: supernormal faculties; supernormal production.
- superplayer — an exceptionally talented player
- superscalar — (of a computer) performing several tasks at once
- supervisual — of or relating to seeing or sight: a visual image.
- supportable — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
- surpassable — to go beyond in amount, extent, or degree; be greater than; exceed.
- suspectable — that could be suspected
- swamp blues — a style of slow blues originating in Louisiana
- swamp maple — red maple.
- swash plate — an inclined circular plate on a rotating shaft for transferring force and motion to or from parts reciprocating in a direction parallel to the axis of shaft rotation.
- sympetalous — gamopetalous.
- synsepalous — gamosepalous.
- tabletopped — having a table top
- taffy apple — candy apple.
- tape player — a small device for playing magnetic tape recordings.
- team player — a person who willingly works in cooperation with others.