13-letter words containing l, o, p, t
- spermatoblast — a reproductive cell
- sphagnologist — a person who studies sphagna
- spiny lobster — any of several edible crustaceans of the family Palinuridae, differing from the true lobsters in having a spiny shell and lacking the large pincers.
- splenectomize — to remove the spleen from
- 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.
- spoils system — the system or practice in which public offices with their emoluments and advantages are at the disposal of the victorious party for its own purposes.
- spontaneously — coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: a spontaneous burst of applause.
- sporting lady — a prostitute.
- sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- spot lighting — Spot lighting is lighting directed towards and used to draw attention to a product or display.
- spotter plane — an aircraft used in observing enemy movements or the accuracy of fire on a target
- sprocket hole — any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
- state capitol — the building which houses the government of a state
- state of play — current situation
- stenopetalous — having narrow petals.
- stenophyllous — having narrow leaves.
- 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.
- stomatoplasty — plastic surgery of the mouth or the cervix.
- stone parsley — a parsley, Sison amomum, of Eurasia, bearing aromatic seeds that are used as a condiment.
- stormy petrel — the British storm petrel, Hydrobates pelagicus, of the eastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Indian Ocean.
- street people — homeless people
- strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
- sub-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
- subemployment — insufficient employment in the labor force of a country, area, or industry, including unemployment and underemployment.
- sublime porte — official name of Porte.
- 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.
- subpopulation — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
- subtropically — in the subtropics
- sunspot cycle — the cycle, averaging in duration slightly more than 11 years, in which the frequency of sunspots varies from a maximum to a minimum and back to a maximum again.
- superdiplomat — a highly skilled or powerful diplomat, a high-ranking diplomat
- superlobbyist — someone who lobbies on behalf of another
- superloyalist — a fanatically loyal supporter (esp of a political party)
- supermotility — Biology. moving or capable of moving spontaneously: motile cells; motile spores.
- supernational — tending to involve, or extending authority over, more than one nation; international; supranational.
- superrational — beyond the scope or range of reason; intuitional.
- supplantation — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- support level — a minimum price below which a specific stock is not supposed to fall, as because of the stock's inherent worth.
- suppositional — the act of supposing.
- 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.
- surplus store — a shop that sells used items, or items previously purchased but unused, and no longer needed. The items are often military, government or industrial excess
- suspercollate — to hang
- sympatholytic — opposing the effects of stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- synophthalmia — cyclopia.
- syphilization — the act of syphilizing
- tablespoonful — the amount a tablespoon can hold.
- talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
- talking point — a fact or feature that aids or supports one side, as in an argument or competition.