11-letter words containing o, p, s, a
- ship's boat — a boat for communication between ship and shore
- shoot craps — to play this game
- shop around — compare prices
- shopbreaker — a robber who breaks into a shop
- showmanship — the skill or ability of a showman.
- sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
- sideropenia — a lack of iron in the body
- singaporean — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- siphonogamy — a mode of pollination in which pollen tubes develop to facilitate the passage of male cells to eggs
- sky compass — a device for taking a bearing by means of polarized sunlight when the sun is invisible.
- slop around — to spill or splash (liquid).
- smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smoky topaz — smoky quartz used as a gemstone: not a true topaz.
- snap course — an academic course that can be passed with a minimum of effort.
- snap out of — to make a sudden, sharp, distinct sound; crack, as a whip; crackle.
- snapshooter — an amateur photographer, especially one who takes snapshots with a simple camera.
- snapshotted — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
- sneak up on — If someone sneaks up on you, they try and approach you without being seen or heard, perhaps to surprise you or do you harm.
- snob appeal — the attributes of something that appeal to people who associate those qualities with social or intellectual superiority; a thing's attractiveness to snobs.
- snobography — an account or description of snobs
- snow-capped — A snow-capped mountain is covered with snow at the top.
- so to speak — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- soap boiler — a manufacturer of soap
- soap bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
- soap powder — soap produced and packaged in powdered form.
- soap-bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
- soapolallie — a drink made by crushing soapberries
- social wasp — any of several wasps, as the hornets or yellowjackets, that live together in a community.
- sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- sociopathic — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- soda siphon — fizzy water dispenser
- soft palate — Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
- soft-soaper — a person who flatters or cajoles, especially for reasons of self-interest or personal advantage: a soft-soaper specializing in rich, elderly women.
- solar panel — a bank of solar cells.
- solar power — energy generated by the sun
- somatoplasm — the cytoplasm of a somatic cell, especially as distinguished from germ plasm.
- sonographer — a diagnostic technician who operates a sonograph
- sophistical — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- sour grapes — bitterness about sth unattainable
- southampton — Henry Wriothesley [rahy-uh ths-lee] /ˈraɪ əθs li/ (Show IPA), 3rd Earl of, 1573–1624, English nobleman, soldier, and patron of writers, including William Shakespeare.
- space group — a set of symmetry elements that brings a periodic arrangement of points on a Bravais space lattice to its original position.
- space opera — a television or radio drama or motion picture that is a science-fiction adventure story.
- space probe — Aerospace. an unmanned spacecraft designed to explore the solar system and transmit data back to earth.
- spanakopita — a baked dish consisting of spinach, feta cheese, eggs, and scallions enclosed in layers of phyllo.
- sparrowfart — the very early morning
- sparrowhawk — a small, short-winged European hawk, Accipiter nisus, that preys on smaller birds.
- spasmolysis — the relaxation or relief of muscle spasm.
- spasmolytic — of or noting spasmolysis.
- spathaceous — of the nature of or resembling a spathe.
- spatterdock — any of various water lilies of the genus Nuphar, having globular yellow flowers and growing in lakes or sluggish streams, especially N. advena, of the eastern U.S.