10-letter words containing l, o, s, p
- splash out — If you splash out on something, especially on a luxury, you buy it even though it costs a lot of money.
- splashdown — the landing of a space vehicle in a body of water, especially the ocean.
- splay-foot — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- spleenwort — any of various temperate and tropical ferns of the genera Asplenium and Diplazium, certain species of which are grown as ornamentals.
- splendored — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- splintwood — a thin flexible wood often used for making baskets
- split roll — a taxation under which real-estate taxes on business and industrial buildings are levied at higher rates than on residential homes.
- spoil bank — a bank of excavated refuse or waste earth, as of shale from surface coal mining.
- spoilsport — a person whose selfish or unsportsmanlike attitudes or actions spoil the pleasure of others, as in a game or social gathering.
- spoliation — the act or an instance of plundering or despoiling.
- spoliative — blood-diminishing
- spondaical — composed of spondees
- spondylous — relating to a vertebra or vertebrae
- spongeable — able to be cleaned with a sponge
- spongocoel — the central cavity in the body of a sponge.
- spongology — the study of sponges
- sponsional — relating to, involved in or entering into a sponsion
- spoon nail — an abnormal condition in which the outer surfaces of the nails are concave; koilonychia.
- sporadical — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sporicidal — a substance or preparation for killing spores.
- sporophyll — a modified leaf that bears sporangia.
- sporoplasm — the protoplasm within a spore that is injected into a host cell by various parasitic organisms.
- sportingly — engaging in, disposed to, or interested in open-air or athletic sports: a rugged, sporting man.
- spot plate — a flat ceramic or plastic plate containing small wells on which spot tests are made.
- spouseless — without a spouse
- spoylefull — plundering
- springlock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
- spuriously — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
- staphyloma — a condition in which the sclera or cornea of the eye projects outwards due to inflammation
- stoop ball — a game resembling baseball, played in a street, schoolyard, or other confined paved area, in which a ball is thrown forcibly against a stairway or wall so that it rebounds into the air, bases and runs being awarded depending on the number of bounces the ball takes before being caught by the opposing player or team.
- stop plank — a board or boarding that is placed along the top of a dam to increase its height and capacity
- straw poll — an unofficial vote taken to obtain an indication of the general trend of opinion on a particular issue.
- strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
- strophulus — a papular eruption of the skin, especially in infants, occurring in several forms and usually harmless.
- stylograph — a fountain pen in which the writing point is a fine, hollow tube instead of a nib.
- stylophone — a type of battery-powered electronic instrument played with a steel-tipped penlike stylus
- suboctuple — in the proportion or ratio of one to eight
- suboptimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- subproblem — any question or matter involving doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty.
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- sulphonium — the hypothetical univalent radical -SH3
- sulphoxide — any compound containing a sulphinyl group (SO) and a hydrocarbon radical
- sulphurous — sulfurous (defs 1, 2).
- sun parlor — a porch or room with many windows exposed to sunshine; sun porch; solarium.
- super bowl — the annual championship football game between the best team of the National Football Conference and that of the American Football Conference.
- superalloy — an alloy, often with a nickel, nickel-iron, or cobalt base, capable of withstanding very high temperatures, used in jet engines, rockets, etc.
- superblock — an area of city land larger than the usual block, treated according to a unified plan and generally closed to vehicular through traffic.
- superiorly — higher in station, rank, degree, importance, etc.: a superior officer.
- supermodel — an extremely prominent and successful model who can command very high fees.
- suppletion — the use in inflection or derivation of an allomorph that is not related in form to the primary allomorph of a morpheme, as the use of better as the comparative of good.