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13-letter words containing g, a, s, p, e, r

  • spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
  • spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
  • springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • spurge laurel — a European thymelaeaceous evergreen shrub, Daphne laureola, with glossy leaves and small green flowers
  • spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
  • stage whisper — a loud whisper on a stage, meant to be heard by the audience.
  • star-spangled — spangled with stars.
  • stargazey pie — a Cornish fish pie served with the head of the fish protruding through the crust
  • staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
  • steganography — the practice of concealing messages in such a way that only the sender and the recipient know that there is a message
  • stepparenting — parenting within a stepfamily
  • stereographer — a person who takes stereoscopic photographs.
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • stranger rape — sexual assault by an assailant upon a person he or she does not know.
  • string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
  • superdelegate — a party leader or elected public official chosen as an uncommitted delegate to a national political convention.
  • supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
  • supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
  • superorganism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
  • superregional — involving many regions
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • thigh-slapper — a very funny joke, remark, story, or incident.
  • untrespassing — not trespassing or infringing
  • vagodepressor — decreasing or mimicking the decrease of the activity of the vagus nerve.
  • watering spot — watering hole
  • weapons-grade — Weapons-grade substances such as uranium or plutonium are of a quality which makes them suitable for use in the manufacture of nuclear weapons.
  • work stoppage — the collective stoppage of work by employees in a business or an industry to protest working conditions.
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