10-letter words containing d, i, s, p, r
- rhapsodize — to talk with extravagant enthusiasm.
- rinderpest — an acute, usually fatal infectious disease of cattle, sheep, etc., caused by a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus and characterized by high fever, diarrhea, and lesions of the skin and mucous membranes.
- rood spire — a spire over the crossing of a church.
- rose aphid — a dark green aphid, Macrosiphum rosae, that feeds on roses and related plants.
- sand viper — hognose snake.
- scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
- sea spider — any member of the arthropod class Pycnogonida, marine invertebrates with eight long walking legs attached to a small body consisting of a cephalothorax and vestigial abdomen.
- self-pride — pride in one's abilities, status, possessions, etc.; self-esteem.
- ship-bread — hardtack.
- spear side — the male side, or line of descent, of a family (opposed to distaff side or spindle side).
- spermatoid — resembling sperm.
- spermicide — a sperm-killing agent, especially a commercial birth-control preparation, usually a cream or jelly.
- spermidine — a biogenic polyamine, H 2 N(CH 2) 4 NH(CH 2) 3 NH 2 , formed from putrescine, occurring widely in nature and first identified in semen.
- spheroidal — pertaining to a spheroid or spheroids.
- spider fly — an artificial fly having a hackle body, little or no tail, no wings, and unusually long legs, dressed to resemble a spider.
- spider web — the web that is spun by a spider, made of interlaced threads of viscous fluid that harden on exposure to air.
- spiderlike — any of numerous predaceous arachnids of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs that serve as nests and as traps for prey.
- spiderling — the young of a spider.
- spiderwork — a thing which has the appearance of a spider's web
- spiderwort — any plant of the genus Tradescantia, having blue, purple, or rose-colored flowers.
- spin-dryer — to remove moisture from (laundry) by centrifugal force, as in an automatic washing machine.
- spinigrade — a type of spiny echinoderm
- splintered — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- spoondrift — spindrift.
- sporadical — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sporicidal — a substance or preparation for killing spores.
- springdale — a city in NW Arkansas.
- springhead — a spring or fountainhead from which a stream flows.
- springwood — the part of an annual ring of wood, characterized by large, thin-walled cells, formed during the first part of the growing season.
- strap-laid — noting a type of flat cordage made by stitching strands together side by side.
- strip bond — a bond that has been stripped into its principal certificate and interest coupons, each part to be sold separately.
- strip down — remove paint or wallpaper from
- sun spider — any predatory, scorpionlike arachnid of the order Solifugae (or Solpugida), having enormously developed mouth pincers and a long body covered with tactile hairs, inhabiting deserts and plains regions in all warm parts of the world except Australia.
- superdrive — (storage) Apple Computer, Inc.'s name for a combined DVD-ROM, DVD-RW, CD-RW drive that appeared in the iMac in 2002.
- superfluid — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
- superoxide — a compound containing the univalent ion O 2 − .
- supervised — to oversee (a process, work, workers, etc.) during execution or performance; superintend; have the oversight and direction of.
- swipe card — a plastic card with magnetically encoded data that is decoded when passed through a slotted electronic reader, especially for payment or identification purposes.
- tapestried — furnished or covered with tapestries.
- tardy slip — a slip of paper given to students who are late for school
- torpedoist — a person in favour of the use of torpedoes or a person knowledgeable about torpedoes
- transpired — to occur; happen; take place.
- triapsidal — having three apses.
- unapprised — not informed or apprised of something
- uninspired — not inspired; not creative or spirited: an uninspired performance; an uninspired teacher.
- unparadise — to deprive of or expel from paradise
- unperished — not perished
- unpromised — not engaged or promised in marriage
- unrespited — allowing no respite, rest, or temporary relief
- unscripted — not scripted; lacking a script: an unscripted idea for a movie.