10-letter words containing l, p, s
- stop plank — a board or boarding that is placed along the top of a dam to increase its height and capacity
- strap-laid — noting a type of flat cordage made by stitching strands together side by side.
- straw poll — an unofficial vote taken to obtain an indication of the general trend of opinion on a particular issue.
- streetlamp — light mounted on a post in street
- strip club — strip joint.
- strip mall — a retail complex consisting of stores or restaurants in adjacent spaces in one long building, typically having a narrow parking area directly in front of the stores.
- strip mill — a mill in which steel slabs are rolled into strips
- stripeless — without stripes
- striplight — a row of lamps, provided with a reflector for floodlighting the stage, used as border lights, footlights, backing lights, etc.
- strippable — Mining. of or relating to ore or coal that can be produced by strip mining.
- 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.
- subpleural — situated under the pleura.
- subproblem — any question or matter involving doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty.
- sugar lump — cube of sugar for coffee or tea
- sugar palm — gomuti (def 1).
- sugar-plum — a small sweetmeat made of sugar with various flavoring and coloring ingredients; a bonbon.
- sulphatase — an enzyme of the esterase group that catalyses the hydrolysis of sulphate esters
- sulphatise — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
- 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
- sulphurate — to combine or treat with sulphur or a sulphur compound
- sulphurise — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur.
- sulphurize — to combine or treat with sulphur or a sulphur compound
- sulphurous — sulfurous (defs 1, 2).
- sun parlor — a porch or room with many windows exposed to sunshine; sun porch; solarium.
- sun pillar — a halo phenomenon in which a vertical streak of light appears above and below the sun, believed to be caused by the reflection of sunlight by ice crystals with vertical axes.
- 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.
- superaltar — a consecrated portable stone slab for use on an unconsecrated altar
- superblock — an area of city land larger than the usual block, treated according to a unified plan and generally closed to vehicular through traffic.
- supercilia — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
- superclass — a category of related classes within a phylum or subphylum.
- superclean — exceptionally clean
- supercycle — any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated.
- superelite — (often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- superexalt — to exalt further; to exalt or raise above others or above a previous position
- superflack — an extremely competent, successful press agent
- superfluid — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
- superhelix — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
- superiorly — higher in station, rank, degree, importance, etc.: a superior officer.
- superlarge — extremely large
- superlight — extremely light
- superliner — an ocean liner of relatively great size or speed.
- superlunar — situated above or beyond the moon.