9-letter words containing a, p, e, l
- sleepwalk — to engage in sleepwalking.
- sleepwear — garments, as nightgowns or pajamas, worn for sleeping or at bedtime.
- slip seat — an upholstered seat having its own frame that fits loosely into the frame of a chair.
- slipcased — having a slipcase
- soleplate — a plate upon which studding is erected.
- someplace — somewhere.
- space law — the projected law that would govern the use of outer space by various nations based on certain treaties.
- spaceless — having no limits or dimensions in space; limitless; unbounded.
- spacewalk — a task or mission performed by an astronaut outside a spacecraft in space.
- spadelike — resembling a spade
- spareable — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
- spareless — merciless
- sparkless — having no spark
- sparsedly — in a scattered manner
- sparticle — a hypothetical elementary particle thought to have been produced in the Big Bang
- spatulate — shaped like a spatula; rounded more or less like a spoon.
- speakable — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- spearlike — resembling a spear
- special k — an animal anaesthetic, ketamine hydrochloride, sold illegally as a hallucinogenic drug
- specially — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- specialty — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
- spectacle — anything presented to the sight or view, especially something of a striking or impressive kind: The stars make a fine spectacle tonight.
- speculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- speedball — a game similar to soccer with the chief difference that a player catching the ball on the fly can pass it with the hands.
- speedwalk — an endless conveyor belt, moving walk, or the like used to transport standing persons from place to place.
- spendable — available for spending.
- sphacelus — the death of living tissue
- spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- spiculate — having the form of a spicule.
- 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
- spiralled — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- spleuchan — a small pouch, especially for carrying tobacco or money.
- split pea — a dried green pea, split and used especially for soup.
- spoilable — able to be spoiled
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- steel pan — steel drum.
- stipulate — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- stoppable — capable of being stopped.
- 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.
- subsample — a specimen from or a small part of a sample.