11-letter words containing l, e, p, s
- solenoglyph — any poisonous snake of the viper family with hollow, paired, erectile fangs
- spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
- spacewalker — a person who manoeuvres in space while outside but attached to a spacecraft
- spare wheel — A spare wheel is a wheel with a tyre on it that you keep in your car in case you get a flat tyre and need to replace one of your wheels.
- sparklessly — in a sparkless manner
- special act — a legislative act that applies only to specific persons or to a specific area.
- specialised — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- specialises — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- specialized — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- specializer — a person who specializes in something
- specialogue — a mail-order catalogue aimed at a specific group of customers
- specialties — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
- specifiable — that can be specified.
- spectacular — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- spectrality — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- spectrology — the study of ghosts, phantoms, or apparitions.
- specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
- speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- speculatist — a person who speculates
- speculative — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- speed light — an electronic flash lamp.
- speed limit — the maximum speed at which a vehicle is legally permitted to travel, as within a specific area, on a certain road, or under given conditions.
- speed metal — a style of heavy-metal music typically played at extremely fast tempos.
- spell check — to process (a document) with a spell checker; check the spelling of.
- spell-check — to process (a document) with a spell checker; check the spelling of.
- spellbinder — a person or thing that spellbinds, especially a powerful speaker who can captivate an audience.
- sperm whale — a large, square-snouted whale, Physeter catodon, valued for its oil and spermaceti: now reduced in number and rare in some areas.
- spermicidal — that kills sperm
- spermophile — any of various burrowing rodents of the squirrel family, especially of the genus Spermophilus (or Citellus), sometimes sufficiently numerous to do much damage to crops, as the ground squirrels and susliks.
- spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
- spider hole — a foxhole with a camouflaged lid or cover in which a sniper hides
- spider lily — any of several plants having lilylike flowers with narrow petals, as those belonging to the genera Crinum, Hymenocallis, and Lycoris, of the amaryllis family.
- spike heels — Spike heels are women's shoes with very high narrow heels.
- spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
- spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
- spindlelegs — (used with a plural verb) long, thin legs.
- spinel ruby — ruby spinel.
- spinsterial — relating to a spinster
- spiral gear — a type of helical gear used for transmitting power between shafts that are at an angle to each other.
- spirit lake — a lake in SW Washington, at the N foot of Mount St. Helens: site of devastation during 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens.
- spirituelle — having a refined and lively mind or wit; spirituel
- spleenstone — a stone which was supposed to cure maladies of the spleen
- splendorous — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- splenectomy — excision or removal of the spleen.
- splint bone — one of the rudimentary, splintlike metacarpal or metatarsal bones of the horse or some allied animal, one on each side of the back of each cannon bone.
- splintering — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- split-level — noting a house having a room or rooms that are somewhat above or below adjacent rooms, with the floor levels usually differing by approximately half a story.
- split-phase — pertaining to or noting a current in one of two parallel circuits that have a single-phase current source but unequal impedances and that produce currents of different phase.