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9-letter words containing l, a, s, p, e

  • spinulate — having a spine or spines
  • spiralled — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
  • spleuchan — a small pouch, especially for carrying tobacco or money.
  • split pea — a dried green pea, split and used especially for soup.
  • spoilable — able to be spoiled
  • sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
  • sporulate — to produce spores.
  • spottable — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
  • spraddled — to straddle.
  • sprekelia — a bulbous plant, Sprekelia formosissima, from Mexico and Guatemala, related to hippeastrum and grown for its striking crimson or white pendent flowers, in the form of a cross: family Amaryllidaceae
  • spy plane — an aircraft used to carry out surveillance of an enemy country or military formations from a high altitude
  • stampless — without a stamp
  • stapedial — the innermost, stirrup-shaped bone of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals, involved in the conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear. Also called stirrup. Compare incus (def 1), malleus.
  • steel pan — steel drum.
  • stipulate — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
  • stoppable — capable of being stopped.
  • strapless — without a strap or straps.
  • strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
  • subalpine — pertaining to the regions at the foot of the Alps.
  • subsample — a specimen from or a small part of a sample.
  • superable — capable of being overcome; surmountable.
  • superably — capable of being overcome; surmountable.
  • supermale — a person bearing an X and Y chromosome pair in the cell nuclei and normally having a penis, scrotum, and testicles, and developing hair on the face at adolescence; a boy or man.
  • superreal — surpassing realism
  • supersale — a massive sale
  • supersalt — a salt with an excess of acid over base
  • supertalk — Silicon Beach Software. A superset of HyperTalk used in SuperCard.
  • sympetaly — the condition of fused petals
  • synalepha — the blending of two successive vowels into one, especially the coalescence of a vowel at the end of one word with a vowel at the beginning of the next.
  • teleplasm — a hypothetical emanation from the body of a medium that serves as the means for telekinesis.
  • telophase — the final stage of meiosis or mitosis, in which the separated chromosomes reach the opposite poles of the dividing cell and the nuclei of the daughter cells form around the two sets of chromosomes.
  • teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
  • tie clasp — an ornamental metal clasp for securing the two ends of a necktie to a shirt front.
  • tonle sap — a lake in W Cambodia, draining into the Mekong River.
  • topcastle — a large fighting top used in medieval ships.
  • unpalsied — not affected by paralysis
  • unpleased — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
  • unsampled — undemonstrated
  • unshapely — not shapely
  • wallopers — Plural form of walloper.
  • warplanes — Plural form of warplane.
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