11-letter words containing n, a, p, r
- spray paint — paint in aerosol form
- spray-paint — to cover, mark, draw, or write with spray paint.
- spreadingly — in a spreading manner
- spring lamb — a lamb born in the late winter or early spring and sold for slaughter before July 1.
- spring rate — The spring rate is a measurement of the amount of force needed to compress a spring a particular distance.
- springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- springwater — water from a spring
- standpatter — a person who refuses to consider or accept change.
- stearoptene — the oxygenated solid part of an essential oil (opposed to eleoptene).
- stench trap — a trap in a sewer that by means of a water seal prevents the upward passage of foul-smelling gases
- stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
- step-parent — a stepfather or stepmother.
- stepanakert — a city in and the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, within Azerbaijan.
- stevengraph — a small picture woven in colored silk thread: introduced in 1879 and mass-produced on a Jacquard-type loom.
- stipendiary — receiving a stipend; performing services for regular pay.
- strandloper — a member of an extinct tribe of Khoikhoi or Bushmen who lived on seafood gathered on the beaches of southern Africa
- strap hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
- strap-hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
- straphanger — a passenger who stands in a crowded bus or subway train and holds onto a strap or other support suspended from above.
- stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
- sugar spoon — a small spoon for serving granulated sugar, resembling but having a wider bowl than a teaspoon.
- sukarnapura — Jayapura
- sun prairie — a town in S Wisconsin.
- superabound — to abound beyond something else.
- superagency — a very large agency, especially a large government agency that oversees smaller ones.
- superaltern — a universal proposition that is the basis for the immediate inference of a corresponding particular proposition.
- superdainty — very dainty
- superharden — harden (def 6).
- superjacent — lying above or upon something else.
- superlunary — situated above or beyond the moon.
- supernatant — floating above or on the surface.
- supernation — a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own: The president spoke to the nation about the new tax.
- supernature — the supernatural
- supernormal — in excess of the normal or average: supernormal faculties; supernormal production.
- supertanker — a tanker with a deadweight capacity of over 75,000 tons.
- superweapon — an extremely powerful weapon
- suppressant — a substance that suppresses an undesirable action or condition: an appetite suppressant.
- suppurating — to produce or discharge pus, as a wound; maturate.
- suppuration — the process of suppurating.
- suspiration — a long, deep sigh.
- telanaipura — former name of Jambi (def 2).
- temperament — the combination of mental, physical, and emotional traits of a person; natural predisposition.
- tenorrhaphy — suture of a tendon.
- tepary bean — a twining or bushy plant, Phaseolus acutifolius latifolius, of the legume family, native to Mexico and Arizona, having white or violet-colored flowers, grown as a food plant in dry regions.
- tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
- tertianship — (in the Jesuit order) a period of strict discipline before the taking of final vows, beginning one or two years after ordination.
- tetrapteran — of or related to things, particularly insects, with four wings
- the permian — the Permian period or rock system
- thorn apple — any poisonous plant belonging to the genus Datura, of the nightshade family, the species of which bear capsules covered with prickly spines, especially the jimson weed, D. stramonium.
- thunderclap — a crash of thunder.