9-letter words containing a, s, p, o
- slip road — A slip road is a road which cars use to drive on and off a motorway.
- slop pail — a pail for conveying slop in feeding livestock, especially pigs.
- snap roll — a manoeuvre in which an aircraft makes a fast roll
- snap shot — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
- snap-roll — to put (an airplane) through the maneuver of a snap roll.
- snapshoot — to take a snapshot of (a subject).
- snow pear — a small tree, Pyrus nivalis, of eastern Europe and Asia Minor, having showy flowers and nearly globe-shaped fruit.
- snowscape — landscape covered with snow.
- soap dish — a dish designed to hold a bar of soap, especially as a bathroom or kitchen fixture attached to a sink, lavatory, or bathtub.
- soap-dish — a dish designed to hold a bar of soap, especially as a bathroom or kitchen fixture attached to a sink, lavatory, or bathtub.
- soapberry — the fruit of any of certain tropical or subtropical trees of the genus Sapindus, especially S. saponaria, used as a substitute for soap.
- soapstone — a massive variety of talc with a soapy or greasy feel, used for hearths, washtubs, tabletops, carved ornaments, etc.
- sociopath — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- soft-soap — Informal. to cajole; flatter.
- soleplate — a plate upon which studding is erected.
- somascope — a medical instrument used to inspect internal organs for disease
- someplace — somewhere.
- sonograph — an instrument that produces a graphic representation of sound.
- soopstake — sweeping up all stakes
- sophonias — Zephaniah.
- sopranino — a musical instrument, as a saxophone or recorder, that is a pitch higher than the soprano instrument of its class.
- space out — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.
- spaceshot — a launch of a space vehicle beyond the earth's atmosphere.
- spadefoot — spadefoot toad.
- spadework — preliminary or initial work, such as the gathering of data, on which further activity is to be based.
- span roof — a roof having two slopes of equal breadth and pitch meeting at a common ridge.
- spar buoy — a buoy resembling a vertical log
- sparagmos — the tearing to pieces of a live victim, as a bull or a calf, by a band of bacchantes in a Dionysian orgy.
- spark off — cause, provoke
- sparkover — spark1 (def 2).
- spasmodic — pertaining to or of the nature of a spasm; characterized by spasms.
- spazz out — an awkward or clumsy person.
- speak for — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- speak out — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- spearwort — any of several buttercups having lance-shaped leaves and small flowers, as Ranunculus ambigens, of the eastern U.S., growing in mud.
- spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- speedboat — a motorboat designed for high speeds.
- spermato- — indicating sperm
- sphagnous — pertaining to, abounding in, or consisting of sphagnum.
- spiration — the act of breathing
- spirogram — a record made by a spirograph
- spirogyra — a widely distributed filamentous freshwater green alga of the genus Spirogyra.
- splayfoot — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- spodogram — the ash pattern produced by incinerating a plant
- spoilable — able to be spoiled
- spoilsman — a person who seeks or receives a share in political spoils.
- spokesman — a person who speaks for another or for a group.
- spoliator — a plunderer
- spongebag — A spongebag is a small bag in which you keep things such as soap and a toothbrush when you are travelling.