10-letter words containing p, i, s, t, l
- splenative — relating to the spleen or spleenful
- splintered — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- splintwood — a thin flexible wood often used for making baskets
- split cane — bamboo split into strips of triangular section, tapered, and glued to form a stiff but flexible hexagonal rod: used, esp formerly, for making fishing rods
- split ends — If you have split ends, some of your hairs are split at the ends because they are dry or damaged.
- split flap — a flap that is located on the under surface of the trailing edge of an aircraft wing and that splits away from the wing structure when rotated downward, producing an increase in lift or drag or both. Compare landing flap.
- split page — (in a newspaper) a page replacing one of an earlier edition and containing chiefly the same material in altered form.
- split peas — peas that are dried and split and used in soups, pease pudding, or as a vegetable
- split rail — a wooden rail split lengthwise from a log and commonly used in rustic rail and post fencing.
- split ring — a steel ring having two helical turns, often used as a key ring
- split roll — a taxation under which real-estate taxes on business and industrial buildings are levied at higher rates than on residential homes.
- split-site — divided between more than one site
- split-time — a daylight-saving time based on a half-hour advance.
- split-wing — of or relating to wings (of an artificial fly) that are dressed cocked up and separated into a V shape
- splittable — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- spoilsport — a person whose selfish or unsportsmanlike attitudes or actions spoil the pleasure of others, as in a game or social gathering.
- spoliation — the act or an instance of plundering or despoiling.
- spoliative — blood-diminishing
- sportingly — engaging in, disposed to, or interested in open-air or athletic sports: a rugged, sporting man.
- sprightful — sprightly.
- springhalt — stringhalt.
- springtail — any of numerous minute, wingless primitive insects of the order Collembola, most possessing a special abdominal appendage for jumping that allows for the nearly perpetual springing pattern characteristic of the group.
- spritelike — an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- stamp mill — a mill or machine in which ore is crushed to powder by means of heavy stamps or pestles.
- staphyline — having a form resembling a bunch of grapes
- stepfamily — a family composed of a parent, a stepparent, and a child or children by a previous marriage.
- still pack — the pack not in play in a game in which two packs are used alternately.
- stipulated — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- strap-laid — noting a type of flat cordage made by stitching strands together side by side.
- strip club — strip joint.
- strip mall — a retail complex consisting of stores or restaurants in adjacent spaces in one long building, typically having a narrow parking area directly in front of the stores.
- strip mill — a mill in which steel slabs are rolled into strips
- stripeless — without stripes
- striplight — a row of lamps, provided with a reflector for floodlighting the stage, used as border lights, footlights, backing lights, etc.
- strippable — Mining. of or relating to ore or coal that can be produced by strip mining.
- strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
- suboptimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- sulphatise — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
- superelite — (often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- superlight — extremely light
- supertitle — (especially in opera production) a translation of a segment of the libretto or other text or sometimes a brief summary of the plot projected onto a screen above the stage during a performance.
- suppletion — the use in inflection or derivation of an allomorph that is not related in form to the primary allomorph of a morpheme, as the use of better as the comparative of good.
- suppletive — serving as an inflected form of a word with a totally different stem, as went, the suppletive past of go.
- suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- supplicant — supplicating.
- supplicate — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
- supravital — pertaining to or involving a staining method for a preparation of living cells.
- swipe left — to move a finger from right to left across a touchscreen in order to dismiss an image
- synaptical — Also called syndesis. Cell Biology. the pairing of homologous chromosomes, one from each parent, during early meiosis.
- syphilitic — pertaining to, noting, or affected with syphilis.