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15-letter words containing g, s, a, p

  • snapping beetle — click beetle.
  • snapping turtle — either of two large, edible, freshwater turtles of the family Chelydridae, of North and Central America, having a large head and powerful hooked jaws, especially the common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina.
  • social spending — the money that is spent on welfare payments
  • spaghetti strap — a thin, often rounded strip of fabric used in women's clothing, as to form a shoulder strap on a bare-shouldered garment.
  • spark generator — an alternating-current power source with a condenser discharging across a spark gap.
  • sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
  • spawning ground — a place where fish deposit their eggs for fertilization
  • speaking as sth — You can say 'speaking as a parent' or 'speaking as a teacher', for example, to indicate that the opinion you are giving is based on your experience as a parent or as a teacher.
  • speaking of sth — You can say speaking of something that has just been mentioned as a way of introducing a new topic which has some connection with that thing.
  • specific charge — the ratio of the charge on a particle to the mass of the particle.
  • speech training — training designed to improve spoken skills, such as voice projection
  • spermatogenesis — the origin and development of spermatozoa.
  • spherical angle — an angle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
  • spinal ganglion — a ganglion on the dorsal root of each spinal nerve, containing the cell bodies of sensory nerves.
  • sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
  • spraddle-legged — moving with or having the legs wide apart: a spraddle-legged walk.
  • spread sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical analysis by selecting a number of short passages at random throughout the work and considering their aggregation
  • spread-eagleism — boastfulness or bombast, especially in the display of patriotic or nationalistic pride in the U.S.; flag-waving.
  • spring mattress — a mattress containing an arrangement of spiral springs
  • spring training — a program of physical exercise, practice, and exhibition games followed by a baseball team in the late winter and early spring, before the start of the regular season.
  • spring-cleaning — a complete cleaning of a place, as a home, done traditionally in the spring of the year.
  • stamping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
  • starting pistol — a pistol used to give the signal to start a race
  • steamed pudding — a traditional pudding containing fat, sugar, eggs, flour, and other ingredients, which is steamed
  • step on the gas — accelerate, drive faster
  • stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
  • stigmatophilist — a person who has stigmatophilia
  • stop at nothing — to be prepared to do anything; be unscrupulous or ruthless
  • straining piece — (in a queen-post roof) a horizontal beam uniting the tops of the two queen posts, and resisting the thrust of the roof.
  • supergiant star — Astronomy. an exceptionally luminous star whose diameter is more than 100 times that of the sun, as Betelgeuse or Antares.
  • surgical spirit — Surgical spirit is a liquid which is used to clean wounds or surgical instruments. It consists mainly of alcohol.
  • symptomological — relating to symptomology
  • teng hsiao-ping — Deng Xiaoping.
  • tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
  • thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
  • thalassographic — relating to thalassography
  • tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
  • to sow gapeseed — to stare in a gaping manner instead of attending to business
  • topgallant mast — a mast fixed to the head of a topmast on a square-rigged vessel.
  • topgallant sail — a sail or either of two sails set on the yard or yards of a topgallant mast.
  • trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
  • ultrasonography — a diagnostic imaging technique utilizing reflected high-frequency sound waves to delineate, measure, or examine internal body structures or organs.
  • undisappointing — not disappointing
  • vanishing point — a point of disappearance, cessation, or extinction: His patience had reached the vanishing point.
  • vanishing spray — a substance that disperses without trace shortly after it is sprayed onto a surface, used in football to mark a temporary line behind which defenders must stand when a free kick is taken
  • vegetable sheep — any of various species of the genus Raoulia, esp R. mammillaris or R. eximia, of New Zealand rocky mountains: a small low bush having white flowers and hairy leaves which, from a distance, make it look like a sheep
  • walpurgis night — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
  • washing-up bowl — plastic bowl used for washing dishes
  • washington palm — a palm tree, Washingtonia filifera, of California and Florida, having large fan-shaped leaves and small black fruits
  • zygophyllaceous — belonging to the Zygophyllaceae, the caltrop family of plants.
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