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9-letter words containing p, e, s, a

  • spareless — merciless
  • spareness — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
  • spareribs — a cut of meat from the rib section, especially of pork or beef, with some meat adhering to the bones.
  • sparkless — having no spark
  • sparkover — spark1 (def 2).
  • sparsedly — in a scattered manner
  • sparteine — a bitter, poisonous, liquid alkaloid obtained from certain species of broom, especially Cytisus scoparius, used in medicine to stimulate the heart and also the uterine muscles in childbirth.
  • sparterie — things made from esparto
  • spartiate — a member of the ruling class of ancient Laconia; a Spartan citizen. Compare Helot (def 1), Perioeci.
  • sparticle — a hypothetical elementary particle thought to have been produced in the Big Bang
  • spattered — to scatter or dash in small particles or drops: The dog spattered mud on everyone when he shook himself.
  • spatulate — shaped like a spatula; rounded more or less like a spoon.
  • speak for — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
  • speak out — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
  • speakable — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
  • speakeasy — a saloon or nightclub selling alcoholic beverages illegally, especially during Prohibition.
  • spear gun — a device for shooting a barbed missile under water, usually by means of gas under pressure, a strong rubber band, or a powerful spring.
  • spearfish — fish: type of marlin
  • spearhead — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
  • spearlike — resembling a spear
  • spearmint — an aromatic herb, Mentha spicata, having lance-shaped leaves used for flavoring.
  • spearwort — any of several buttercups having lance-shaped leaves and small flowers, as Ranunculus ambigens, of the eastern U.S., growing in mud.
  • spec rate — (benchmark)   Results of the throughput measurement using SPEC benchmark suites CINT92 and CFP92. With the throughput measurement method, several copies of a given benchmark are executed. The method is particularly suitable for multiprocessor systems. The results, called SPEC rate, express how many jobs of a particular type (characterised by the individual benchmark) can be executed in a given time (The SPEC reference time happens to be a week, the execution times are normalized with respect to a VAX 11/780). The SPEC rates therefore characterise the capacity of a system for compute-intensive jobs of similar characteristics. See also SPEC ratio.
  • special k — an animal anaesthetic, ketamine hydrochloride, sold illegally as a hallucinogenic drug
  • specially — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
  • specialty — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
  • spectacle — anything presented to the sight or view, especially something of a striking or impressive kind: The stars make a fine spectacle tonight.
  • spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
  • speculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • speechway — a pattern, style, or feature of spoken language shared by the people of a particular group or area.
  • speedball — a game similar to soccer with the chief difference that a player catching the ball on the fly can pass it with the hands.
  • speedboat — a motorboat designed for high speeds.
  • speedread — to read (something) very quickly
  • speedwalk — an endless conveyor belt, moving walk, or the like used to transport standing persons from place to place.
  • spendable — available for spending.
  • speranski — Mikhail Mikhailovich (mixɑˈil). 1772–1839, Russian statesman, chief adviser (1807–12) to Alexander I. His greatest achievement was the codification of Russian law (begun 1826)
  • spermaria — spermaries
  • spermatia — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
  • spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
  • spermatid — Cell Biology. one of the cells that result from the meiotic divisions of a spermatocyte and mature into spermatozoa.
  • spermato- — indicating sperm
  • sphacelus — the death of living tissue
  • sphaerite — an aluminium phosphate
  • spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
  • spiculate — having the form of a spicule.
  • spiderman — a person who erects the steel structure of a building
  • spikedace — a scaleless, mottled, olive-brown fish, Meda fulgida, of the Gila River system in New Mexico and Arizona, having two dorsal spines.
  • spikenard — an aromatic, Indian plant, Nardostachys jatamansi, of the valerian family, believed to be the nard of the ancients.
  • spillable — to cause or allow to run or fall from a container, especially accidentally or wastefully: to spill a bag of marbles; to spill milk.
  • spin wave — a magnetic wave propagated through a crystal lattice by a collective excitation of the spin angular momentum of electrons.
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