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13-letter words containing l, a, t, r, p

  • southern alps — a mountain range in New Zealand, on South Island: the highest range in Australasia. Highest peak: Mount Cook (also known as Aoraki or Aorangi), 3754 m (12 316 ft)
  • spectacularly — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
  • spectral line — a line in a spectrum due to the absorption or emission of light at a discrete frequency.
  • spectral type — a category for classifying a star, as A star or G star, according to features of its spectrum, as its shape as a function of temperature and wavelength and its absorption spectrum, that indicate the surface temperature of the star and the presence of particular atoms or molecules in its outer layers: principal types are spectral types O, B, A, F, G, K, and M.
  • speleotherapy — a form of treatment for asthma sufferers that takes place in clinics in disused mines, in which the air is free of pollen, dust mites, and the other irritants that provoke an allergic reaction; used to reduce the risk of heart disease
  • spermatoblast — a reproductive cell
  • splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • spoiler party — a third political party formed to draw votes away from one of the two major parties, thus spoiling its chance of winning an election.
  • sporting lady — a prostitute.
  • sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • spotter plane — an aircraft used in observing enemy movements or the accuracy of fire on a target
  • spreadability — capable of being spread; easily spread: a soft, spreadable cheese.
  • stader splint — a splint consisting of an adjustable metal rod with a steel pin at either end for insertion in the bone above and below a fracture.
  • standard lamp — A standard lamp is a tall electric light which stands on the floor in a living room.
  • standard lisp — A subset of Lisp 1.5 developed by A. Hearn primarily for implementing REDUCE. It was replaced by Portable Sandard LISP.
  • star-spangled — spangled with stars.
  • steeplechaser — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • stone parsley — a parsley, Sison amomum, of Eurasia, bearing aromatic seeds that are used as a condiment.
  • string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
  • striped maple — a maple, Acer pensylvanicum, of northeastern North America, having white-striped bark.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • subperiosteal — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
  • subtriplicate — designating or involving the ratio of the cube roots of two terms
  • subtropically — in the subtropics
  • sulfate paper — paper made from sulfate pulp.
  • sulfite paper — paper made from sulfite pulp.
  • sumptuary law — a law regulating personal habits that offend the moral or religious beliefs of the community.
  • sunray pleats — bias-cut knife pleats that are narrower at the top than at the bottom, producing a flared effect, used esp for skirts
  • super-wealthy — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
  • supercritical — extremely critical.
  • superdelegate — a party leader or elected public official chosen as an uncommitted delegate to a national political convention.
  • superdiplomat — a highly skilled or powerful diplomat, a high-ranking diplomat
  • superelevated — (of a curve in a road, railroad track, etc.) banked.
  • supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
  • superlatively — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
  • superloyalist — a fanatically loyal supporter (esp of a political party)
  • supermilitant — highly militant
  • supernational — tending to involve, or extending authority over, more than one nation; international; supranational.
  • superparticle — (in supersymmetry theory) a theoretical particle that is a partner to an observed particle, having the same mass but a different spin
  • superrational — beyond the scope or range of reason; intuitional.
  • supplementary — Also, supplemental. of the nature of or forming a supplement; additional.
  • supralittoral — of or relating to the biogeographic region of a shore of a lake, sea, or ocean permanently above water but made damp by spray from waves or by capillarity of the substrate.
  • supranational — outside or beyond the authority of one national government, as a project or policy that is planned and controlled by a group of nations.
  • suprarational — not understandable by reason alone; beyond rational comprehension.
  • supratemporal — situated above the upper part of the temporal bone or region.
  • surface plate — Machinery. a flat plate used by machinists for testing surfaces that are to be made perfectly flat.
  • suspercollate — to hang
  • table-rapping — the sounds of knocking or tapping made without any apparent physical agency while a group of people sit round a table, and attributed by spiritualists to the spirit of a dead person using this as a means of communication with the living
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
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