9-letter words containing n, l, s, p
- spinulate — having a spine or spines
- spiraling — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- spirulina — any of the blue-green algae of the genus Spirulina, sometimes added to food for its nutrient value.
- spleenful — full of or displaying spleen.
- splendent — shining or radiant, as the sun.
- splendour — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- splenetic — of the spleen; splenic.
- splenitis — inflammation of the spleen
- spleuchan — a small pouch, especially for carrying tobacco or money.
- splintery — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- splinting — a thin piece of wood or other rigid material used to immobilize a fractured or dislocated bone, or to maintain any part of the body in a fixed position.
- split end — an offensive end who lines up some distance outside the formation on the line of scrimmage as a pass receiver.
- split pin — a metal pin made by bending double a wire, often of hemispherical section, so that it can be passed through a hole in a nut, shaft, etc, to secure another part by bending back the ends of the wire
- split run — a pressrun, as that of a newspaper or magazine, which is interrupted after the running of a specified number of copies to permit the substitution of type or of a cut, as in a keyed advertisement: a device for testing the relative effectiveness of different versions of an advertisement.
- split tin — a long loaf of bread split on top, giving a greater crust area
- split-new — brand-new
- splitting — that has undergone splitting; parted lengthwise; cleft.
- spoilsman — a person who seeks or receives a share in political spoils.
- spondulix — money; cash.
- spondylo- — vertebra
- spongefly — any of several insects of the family Sisyridae, the aquatic larvae of which feed on freshwater sponges.
- sponsalia — marriage; espousals
- sponsible — responsible
- spoonbill — any of several wading birds of the family Plataleidae, related to the ibises, having a long, flat bill with a spoonlike tip.
- sporeling — Botany, Mycology. the young individual developed from a spore.
- spot line — a rope or wire hung from a specific place on the gridiron for flying a piece of scenery that could not be flied by the existing battens.
- sprawling — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- springald — a youth; young fellow.
- springlet — a small spring of water.
- sprinkler — any of various devices for sprinkling, as a watering pot, a container of water with a perforated top used to sprinkle clothes before ironing, or especially a perforated ring or small stand with a revolving nozzle to which a hose is attached for watering a lawn with a fine, even spray.
- spun silk — yarn produced by spinning silk waste and short, broken filaments from which the sericin has been removed. Compare reeled silk.
- spy plane — an aircraft used to carry out surveillance of an enemy country or military formations from a high altitude
- steel pan — steel drum.
- steepling — an ornamental construction, usually ending in a spire, erected on a roof or tower of a church, public building, etc.
- stippling — to paint, engrave, or draw by means of dots or small touches.
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
- stripling — a youth.
- subalpine — pertaining to the regions at the foot of the Alps.
- subpurlin — a light structural member for carrying roofing materials, supported by and running at right angles to purlins.
- sulpician — a member of a society of secular priests founded in France in 1642, engaged chiefly in training men to teach in seminaries.
- superlong — extremely long
- suppliant — a person who supplicates; petitioner.
- supplying — to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.
- swampland — land or an area covered with swamps.
- synalepha — the blending of two successive vowels into one, especially the coalescence of a vowel at the end of one word with a vowel at the beginning of the next.
- tail-spin — spin (def 23).
- tonle sap — a lake in W Cambodia, draining into the Mekong River.
- tonoplast — a membrane separating a vacuole from the surrounding cytoplasm in a plant cell.
- uncleship — the position or status of an uncle; the condition of being an uncle
- unispiral — having one spiral.