9-letter words containing c, s, p
- sidepiece — a piece forming a side or a part of a side, or fixed by the side, of something.
- simpatico — congenial or like-minded; likable: I find our new neighbor simpatico in every respect.
- simscript — A free-form, English-like general-purpose simulation language produced by Harry Markowitz et al of Rand Corp in 1963. It was implemented as a Fortran preprocessor on IBM 7090 and was designed for large discrete simulations. It influenced Simula. Later versions included SIMSCRIPT I.5 and SIMSCRIPT II.5.
- siphuncle — (in a nautilus) the connecting tube that passes from the end of the body through all of the septa to the innermost chamber.
- sippy cup — a spill-resistant drinking cup for toddlers, having a tight lid with a spout.
- skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
- sketchpad — sketchbook (def 1).
- skiascope — retinoscope.
- skiascopy — retinoscope.
- skull cap — A skull cap is a small close-fitting cap.
- skull-cap — a small, brimless close-fitting cap, often made of silk or velvet, worn on the crown of the head, as for religious functions.
- slapstick — broad comedy characterized by boisterous action, as the throwing of pies in actors' faces, mugging, and obvious farcical situations and jokes.
- sleepcoat — a lightweight, knee-length garment for sleep or lounging, styled like a pajama top and having a sash.
- slipcased — having a slipcase
- slipcover — a cover of cloth or other material for a piece of furniture, as an upholstered chair or sofa, made so as to be easily removable.
- slipstick — slide rule.
- slo pitch — slow pitch
- slo-pitch — a type of softball with ten players per side and in which each pitch must travel in an arc from three to ten feet high.
- small-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a market capitalization of under $1 billion: considered to have more growth potential and higher investment risk.
- snap back — a sudden rebound or recovery.
- snaphance — a type of mechanism similar to a flintlock used to discharge a gun
- snowcreep — a continuous, slow, downhill movement of snow.
- snowscape — landscape covered with snow.
- 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 copy — computer output displayed on the screen of a VDT (opposed to hard copy).
- somascope — a medical instrument used to inspect internal organs for disease
- someplace — somewhere.
- sophistic — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- sophocles — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
- soporific — causing or tending to cause sleep.
- space age — period post-1950s onwards
- space bar — a horizontal bar on a typewriter keyboard that is depressed in order to resume typing one space to the right.
- space law — the projected law that would govern the use of outer space by various nations based on certain treaties.
- space man — space writer.
- space out — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- space-age — pertaining to or characteristic of the Space Age.
- space-bar — a horizontal bar on a typewriter keyboard that is depressed in order to resume typing one space to the right.
- spaceband — a device on a linecaster for evening up the spaces between words
- spaceless — having no limits or dimensions in space; limitless; unbounded.
- spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.
- spaceship — spacecraft.
- spaceshot — a launch of a space vehicle beyond the earth's atmosphere.
- spacesuit — a sealed and pressurized suit designed to allow the wearer to leave a pressurized cabin in outer space or at extremely high altitudes within the atmosphere.
- spacewalk — a task or mission performed by an astronaut outside a spacecraft in space.
- spaceward — going into space
- spacially — spatial.
- spaciness — the state of being spacey
- spanaemic — relating to a lack of red corpuscles in blood
- spar deck — the upper deck of a vessel, extending from stem to stern.
- spartacus — died 71 b.c, Thracian slave, gladiator, and insurrectionist.