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9-letter words containing e, s, t, r, p

  • sculpture — the art of carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions, as in relief, intaglio, or in the round.
  • separated — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
  • separates — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
  • separator — a person or thing that separates.
  • separatum — a reprint of an article separately from the magazine, journal, or book in which it was originally published; an offprint
  • septarian — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
  • septarium — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
  • september — the ninth month of the year, containing 30 days. Abbreviation: Sept., Sep.
  • septemvir — a member of a seven-man ruling body in ancient Rome.
  • septenary — of or relating to the number seven or forming a group of seven.
  • septiform — sevenfold
  • sepulture — the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.
  • serotypic — of or relating to a serotype
  • serpentis — genitive of Serpens.
  • serpentry — the collective body of serpents; serpents as a whole
  • serpulite — a fossilized calcareous tube of a serpula
  • set apart — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
  • sharp-set — eager to satisfy the appetite, especially for food.
  • side trip — a brief excursion off the main route of an itinerary, as to visit a particular person or place.
  • silvertip — grizzly bear.
  • skatepark — A skatepark is an area that is designed for people to practise skateboarding.
  • soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
  • sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
  • spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.
  • sparteine — a bitter, poisonous, liquid alkaloid obtained from certain species of broom, especially Cytisus scoparius, used in medicine to stimulate the heart and also the uterine muscles in childbirth.
  • sparterie — things made from esparto
  • spartiate — a member of the ruling class of ancient Laconia; a Spartan citizen. Compare Helot (def 1), Perioeci.
  • sparticle — a hypothetical elementary particle thought to have been produced in the Big Bang
  • spattered — to scatter or dash in small particles or drops: The dog spattered mud on everyone when he shook himself.
  • spearmint — an aromatic herb, Mentha spicata, having lance-shaped leaves used for flavoring.
  • spearwort — any of several buttercups having lance-shaped leaves and small flowers, as Ranunculus ambigens, of the eastern U.S., growing in mud.
  • spec rate — (benchmark)   Results of the throughput measurement using SPEC benchmark suites CINT92 and CFP92. With the throughput measurement method, several copies of a given benchmark are executed. The method is particularly suitable for multiprocessor systems. The results, called SPEC rate, express how many jobs of a particular type (characterised by the individual benchmark) can be executed in a given time (The SPEC reference time happens to be a week, the execution times are normalized with respect to a VAX 11/780). The SPEC rates therefore characterise the capacity of a system for compute-intensive jobs of similar characteristics. See also SPEC ratio.
  • spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
  • speedster — a person who travels at high speed.
  • spermatia — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
  • spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
  • spermatid — Cell Biology. one of the cells that result from the meiotic divisions of a spermatocyte and mature into spermatozoa.
  • spermato- — indicating sperm
  • sphaerite — an aluminium phosphate
  • sphincter — a circular band of voluntary or involuntary muscle that encircles an orifice of the body or one of its hollow organs.
  • spinneret — an organ or part by means of which a spider, insect larva, or the like spins a silky thread for its web or cocoon.
  • spiraster — a part of a living sponge
  • spirituel — showing or having a refined and graceful mind or wit.
  • spitteler — Carl [German kahrl] /German kɑrl/ (Show IPA), ("Felix Tandem") 1845–1924, Swiss poet, novelist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1919.
  • splintery — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
  • splitters — a person or thing that splits.
  • spluttery — tending to splutter: spluttery fire sparks.
  • sporocyte — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
  • sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
  • sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
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