9-letter words containing o, s, i, p
- slo pitch — slow pitch
- slo-pitch — a type of softball with ten players per side and in which each pitch must travel in an arc from three to ten feet high.
- sloop rig — gaff-topsail catfish.
- slop pail — a pail for conveying slop in feeding livestock, especially pigs.
- slop sink — a deep sink for emptying slop pails and the like.
- slopewise — in a sloping manner
- soap dish — a dish designed to hold a bar of soap, especially as a bathroom or kitchen fixture attached to a sink, lavatory, or bathtub.
- soap-dish — a dish designed to hold a bar of soap, especially as a bathroom or kitchen fixture attached to a sink, lavatory, or bathtub.
- sociopath — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- soil pipe — a pipe carrying wastes from toilets and sometimes from waste pipes. Compare waste pipe (def 2).
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- solipsism — Philosophy. the theory that only the self exists, or can be proved to exist.
- solipsist — Philosophy. the theory that only the self exists, or can be proved to exist.
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- sophistic — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
- sophonias — Zephaniah.
- soporific — causing or tending to cause sleep.
- sopranino — a musical instrument, as a saxophone or recorder, that is a pitch higher than the soprano instrument of its class.
- spasmodic — pertaining to or of the nature of a spasm; characterized by spasms.
- 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.
- sphygmoid — resembling the pulse; pulselike.
- spicewood — spicebush (def 1).
- spiel off — to recite by or as if by rote
- spill out — overflow
- spillover — the act of spilling over.
- spilosite — a form of slate
- spiniform — like a thorn or spine
- spinosity — the condition of being spinose
- spinozism — the philosophical system of Spinoza, which defines God as the unique substance, as an impersonal deity, and as possessing an infinite number of attributes, of which we know only thought and extension, and an infinite number of modes, each modifying all of the attributes, these attributes and modes being regarded both as proceeding necessarily from the nature of God and as constituents of God.
- spinproof — (of an airplane) designed so as to be highly resistant to a tailspin.
- spiration — the act of breathing
- spiritoso — spirited; lively (used as a musical direction).
- spiritous — of the nature of spirit; immaterial, ethereal, or refined.
- spirogram — a record made by a spirograph
- spirogyra — a widely distributed filamentous freshwater green alga of the genus Spirogyra.
- split off — separate from group
- split-off — the act of separating or splitting away from something else.
- splodgily — in a splodgy manner
- spoil for — If you are spoiling for a fight, you are very eager for it to happen.
- spoilable — able to be spoiled
- spoilfive — a game played by two to ten persons having five cards each.
- spoilsman — a person who seeks or receives a share in political spoils.
- spokewise — in relation to, away from, or toward a center, as the spokes on a wheel: The projections were arranged spokewise around the core.
- spoliator — a plunderer
- spondulix — money; cash.
- spongious — spongy or relating to a sponge
- sponsalia — marriage; espousals
- 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.