9-letter words containing o, l, p, e, s
- ski slope — snow-covered hill at ski resort
- sleep off — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- sleep out — live-out.
- sleep-out — live-out.
- sleepcoat — a lightweight, knee-length garment for sleep or lounging, styled like a pajama top and having a sash.
- sleepover — an instance of sleeping over, as at another person's house.
- slipcover — a cover of cloth or other material for a piece of furniture, as an upholstered chair or sofa, made so as to be easily removable.
- slipnoose — a noose with a knot that slides along the rope, thus forming a noose that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- slop over — to overflow or spill, as a liquid when its container is tilted
- slop-over — a quantity of liquid carelessly spilled or splashed about.
- slopewise — in a sloping manner
- soil pipe — a pipe carrying wastes from toilets and sometimes from waste pipes. Compare waste pipe (def 2).
- soleplate — a plate upon which studding is erected.
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- someplace — somewhere.
- sophocles — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
- spell out — to name, write, or otherwise give the letters, in order, of (a word, syllable, etc.): Did I spell your name right?
- spelldown — a spelling competition that begins with all the contestants standing and that ends when all but one, the winner, have been required to sit down due to a specified number of misspellings.
- sperm oil — a yellow, thin, water-insoluble liquid obtained from the sperm whale, used chiefly as a lubricant in light machinery, as watches, clocks, and scientific apparatus.
- spiel off — to recite by or as if by rote
- spillover — the act of spilling over.
- spilosite — a form of slate
- splendour — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- splotches — a large, irregular spot; blot; stain; blotch.
- spoilable — able to be spoiled
- spoilfive — a game played by two to ten persons having five cards each.
- spokeless — one of the bars, rods, or rungs radiating from the hub or nave of a wheel and supporting the rim or felloe.
- spongefly — any of several insects of the family Sisyridae, the aquatic larvae of which feed on freshwater sponges.
- sponsible — responsible
- spoolview — (tool) A printing system for Unix. SpoolView can control several printers connected to a TCP/IP network. Different printers can be loaded with different paper and forms. After submitting a print request, the user can change the printer, form, number of copies or priority. Administrators can register new printers, change paper forms on printers, cancel requests, suspend printers.
- sporeling — Botany, Mycology. the young individual developed from a spore.
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- sportless — without any sport
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- 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.
- spot-weld — to weld (two pieces of metal) together in a small area or spot by the application of heat and pressure.
- spottable — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- spoutless — having no spout
- stepstool — a low set of hinged steps, often folding into or under a stool, used typically in a kitchen for reaching high shelves.
- stockpile — a supply of material, as a pile of gravel in road maintenance.
- stoppable — capable of being stopped.
- stylopize — (of a stylops) to parasitize (a host)
- superbold — (of writing, ornamentation, styling) very or exceptionally bold or striking
- supercoil — superhelix.
- supercold — extremely cold
- supercool — to cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without producing solidification or crystallization; undercool.
- superlong — extremely long
- telescope — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- telescopy — the use of the telescope.
- telophase — the final stage of meiosis or mitosis, in which the separated chromosomes reach the opposite poles of the dividing cell and the nuclei of the daughter cells form around the two sets of chromosomes.