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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.
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