14-letter words containing d, r, i, p, s
- spanish armada — Armada (def 1).
- spanish dagger — a stemless or short-trunked plant, Yucca gloriosa, of the agave family, native to the southeastern U.S., having leaves nearly 2½ feet (75 cm) long, with a stiff, sharp point, and greenish-white or reddish flowers nearly 4 inches (10 cm) wide.
- speech-reading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- spoiled priest — a person who was a student for the priesthood but who has withdrawn or been dismissed
- 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.
- 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
- 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 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.
- swedish turnip — rutabaga.
- the depression — the worldwide economic depression of the early 1930s, when there was mass unemployment
- third position — a position in which the feet overlap at the heels with the toes pointing out in opposite directions to the left and right.
- trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- triple dresser — a dresser having three drawers across for most of its height.
- un-replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- underemphasize — to give less than sufficient emphasis to; minimize.
- understrapping — subordinate or inferior
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- unpersonalized — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- unpresidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
- upper sideband — the frequency band above the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
- vespertilionid — any of a large family (Vespertilionidae) of long-tailed bats that are widely distributed, esp. in temperate regions, including most of the small, insect-eating species
- vice president — an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.
- vice-president — an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.
- ville-de-paris — a department in N France. 41 sq. mi. (106 sq. km). Capital: Paris.
- washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
- well-dispersed — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- well-practised — having or having been habitually or frequently practised in order to improve skill or quality