9-letter words containing e, p, s, o
- slop-over — a quantity of liquid carelessly spilled or splashed about.
- slopewise — in a sloping manner
- smoke pot — a can of chemicals that produces a great quantity of smoke when ignited.
- snow pear — a small tree, Pyrus nivalis, of eastern Europe and Asia Minor, having showy flowers and nearly globe-shaped fruit.
- snowcreep — a continuous, slow, downhill movement of snow.
- snowscape — landscape covered with snow.
- soapberry — the fruit of any of certain tropical or subtropical trees of the genus Sapindus, especially S. saponaria, used as a substitute for soap.
- soapstone — a massive variety of talc with a soapy or greasy feel, used for hearths, washtubs, tabletops, carved ornaments, etc.
- soften up — make softer
- soil pipe — a pipe carrying wastes from toilets and sometimes from waste pipes. Compare waste pipe (def 2).
- soleplate — a plate upon which studding is erected.
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- somascope — a medical instrument used to inspect internal organs for disease
- someplace — somewhere.
- soopstake — sweeping up all stakes
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- sophocles — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
- sophomore — a student in the second year of high school or college.
- souped up — a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.
- souped-up — a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.
- space out — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.
- spaceshot — a launch of a space vehicle beyond the earth's atmosphere.
- spadefoot — spadefoot toad.
- spadework — preliminary or initial work, such as the gathering of data, on which further activity is to be based.
- sparkover — spark1 (def 2).
- speak for — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- speak out — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- spearwort — any of several buttercups having lance-shaped leaves and small flowers, as Ranunculus ambigens, of the eastern U.S., growing in mud.
- spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- speed cop — a policeman who rides a motorcycle and who checks the speeds at which motorists are travelling
- speedboat — a motorboat designed for high speeds.
- spell out — to name, write, or otherwise give the letters, in order, of (a word, syllable, etc.): Did I spell your name right?
- spelldown — a spelling competition that begins with all the contestants standing and that ends when all but one, the winner, have been required to sit down due to a specified number of misspellings.
- sperm oil — a yellow, thin, water-insoluble liquid obtained from the sperm whale, used chiefly as a lubricant in light machinery, as watches, clocks, and scientific apparatus.
- spermato- — indicating sperm
- sphendone — an ancient Greek headband
- sphenodon — tuatara.
- spicewood — spicebush (def 1).
- spiel off — to recite by or as if by rote
- spillover — the act of spilling over.
- spilosite — a form of slate
- splendour — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- splotches — a large, irregular spot; blot; stain; blotch.
- spodumene — a mineral, lithium aluminum silicate, LiAlSi 2 O 6 , occurring in prismatic crystals, transparent varieties being used as gems.
- spoilable — able to be spoiled
- spoilfive — a game played by two to ten persons having five cards each.
- spoke-dog — a stick used by wheelwrights to force the outer ends of spokes into the rim or felloe.
- spokeless — one of the bars, rods, or rungs radiating from the hub or nave of a wheel and supporting the rim or felloe.
- spokesman — a person who speaks for another or for a group.