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14-letter words containing d, i, p

  • spellbindingly — in a spellbinding manner
  • spending money — money for small personal expenses.
  • spending power — income available for spending
  • spending spree — a brief period of extravagant spending
  • spermatic cord — the cord by which a testis is suspended in the scrotum, containing the vas deferens and the blood vessels and nerves of the testis.
  • spick and span — spotlessly clean and neat: a spick-and-span kitchen.
  • spick-and-span — spotlessly clean and neat: a spick-and-span kitchen.
  • spider phaeton — (formerly) a light horse-drawn carriage with a high body and large slender wheels
  • spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
  • spindle-legged — (used with a plural verb) long, thin legs.
  • spiral binding — a binding, as for a notebook or booklet, in which the pages are fastened together by a spiral of wire or plastic that coils through a series of holes punched along one side of each page and the front and back covers.
  • spit and image — a person who bears a strong physical resemblance to another, esp to a relative
  • split decision — a decision of a bout on whose outcome the referee and judges did not unanimously agree.
  • spoiled priest — a person who was a student for the priesthood but who has withdrawn or been dismissed
  • sponge pudding — a light steamed or baked pudding, spongy in texture, made with various flavourings or fruit
  • sports stadium — an arena where sports are played
  • spotted orchid — any of various common Eurasian orchids, esp the heath and common spotted orchids (Dactylorhiza maculata and D. fuchsii). The flowers are variable but usually have dark blotches
  • spread betting — Spread betting is a form of gambling that involves predicting a range of possible scores or results rather than one particular score or result.
  • spring binding — a method of securing loose sheets of paper in a binder, using a mechanism containing a metal spring
  • spring molding — a molded board, as one forming part of a cornice, placed diagonally and secured at the ends to two surfaces intersecting at a right angle.
  • springboarding — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
  • squared splice — square splice.
  • standard pitch — concert pitch
  • stop-and-frisk — a policy that permits a police officer to momentarily detain and pat down or search a person suspected of criminal activity, especially when suspected of concealing a weapon.
  • striped gopher — a ground squirrel marked with stripes, especially the thirteen-lined ground squirrel.
  • striped marlin — a marlin, Tetrapturus audax, of the Pacific Ocean, having the sides of the body marked with dark blue vertical stripes, valued for sport and food.
  • striped muscle — a type of contractile tissue that is marked by transverse striations; it is concerned with moving skeletal parts to which it is usually attached
  • studio complex — a building containing a room or rooms used to record television or radio programmes, make films, music, etc
  • sulphacetamide — a topical antibiotic of the sulphonamide group, used to treat eye infections, as well as skin infections including acne
  • sulphanilamide — a white odourless crystalline compound formerly used in medicine in the treatment of bacterial infections. Formula: NH2C6H4SO2NH2
  • sulphonic acid — type of strong organic acid
  • sulphuric acid — Sulphuric acid is a colourless, oily, and very powerful acid.
  • summer pudding — a pudding made by filling a bread-lined basin with a purée of fruit, leaving it to soak, and then turning it out
  • sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
  • sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
  • supercivilized — (of a person or society) highly or excessively civilized
  • superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
  • superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
  • superinsulated — highly insulated
  • superintendent — a person who oversees or directs some work, enterprise, establishment, organization, district, etc.; supervisor.
  • swamp milkweed — a coarse milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, growing in swampy places from eastern North America to Colorado, having ball-like clusters of rose-purple flowers.
  • swedish turnip — rutabaga.
  • tape recording — sound reproduction on cassette
  • terpin hydrate — a white, crystalline powder, C 10 H 20 O 2 ⋅H 2 O, usually used in combination with codeine, as an expectorant.
  • the depression — the worldwide economic depression of the early 1930s, when there was mass unemployment
  • the hispanidad — the common values and cultural attitudes shared between and linking Spain and the other Spanish-speaking countries of the world
  • the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
  • the-pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • thermoperiodic — responding to or affected by periodic differences in temperatures.
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