10-letter words containing p, s, i, l
- silk paper — paper that contains silk fibers and is sometimes used for printing postage stamps and revenue stamps.
- simferopol — a city in S Ukraine, on the S Crimean Peninsula.
- simple arc — a curve that does not cross itself and has no points missing; a curve that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the closed interval from 0 to 1.
- simple vow — a public vow taken by a religious, under which property may be retained and marriage, though held to be illicit, is valid under canon law.
- simpleness — easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools.
- simplicial — relating to simplexes
- simplicity — the state, quality, or an instance of being simple.
- simplicius — Saint, died a.d. 483, pope 468–483.
- simplified — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- simplistic — characterized by extreme simplism; oversimplified: a simplistic notion of good and bad.
- sine prole — without offspring or progeny: to die sine prole.
- sipunculid — an invertebrate of the phylum Sipuncula, comprising the peanut worms.
- skimpingly — in a manner marked by skimpiness
- skippingly — in the manner of a skip
- slash pine — a pine, Pinus elliotii, found in slashes and swamps in the southeastern U.S., yielding a hard, durable wood.
- slave ship — a ship for transporting slaves from their native homes to places of bondage.
- slavophile — a person who greatly admires the Slavs and Slavic ways.
- sleep with — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- sleepiness — person: drowsy feeling
- sleepshirt — a shirtlike garment, usually knee-length or shorter, worn for sleeping.
- slip a cog — (not in technical use) a gear tooth, formerly especially one of hardwood or metal, fitted into a slot in a gearwheel of less durable material.
- slip gauge — a very accurately ground block of hardened steel used to measure a gap with close accuracy: used mainly in tool-making and inspection
- slip joint — a joint made between an older and a newer masonry wall to form a continuous surface, masonry at the end of the newer wall fitting into a vertical groove cut in the end of the older wall.
- slip noose — a noose made with a slipknot
- slipperier — tending or liable to cause slipping or sliding, as ice, oil, a wet surface, etc.: a slippery road.
- slipsloppy — wet and sloppy
- slipstream — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- slop basin — a basin or bowl into which the dregs, leaves, and grounds of teacups and coffee cups are emptied at the table.
- slow pitch — a variety of softball in which the ball is pitched with an underhand motion at moderate speed in an arc that rises at least six feet above the ground
- slow-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.
- slush pile — a collection of unsolicited manuscripts submitted to a publisher.
- small pica — (formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 11 point
- snappingly — involving a snap
- snappishly — in a sharp or irritable manner
- soil creep — creep of soil on even slopes; often accelerated by spring freeze-and-thaw or general periglacial conditions. Compare creep (def 22a).
- soil group — one of a number of soil classes having the same kinds of horizons in the same sequence and under similar moisture and temperature regimes.
- solar ship — (in ancient Egypt) a boat placed in or near the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
- sopaipilla — a small pastry made of deep-fried yeast dough and usually dipped in honey.
- spaciality — spatial.
- spallation — a nuclear reaction in which several nucleons are released from the nucleus of an atom.
- spaniolize — to cause to become Spanish
- spankingly — in a spanking manner
- spark coil — a coil of many turns of insulated wire on an iron core, used for producing sparks.
- sparkishly — in a sparkish manner
- sparkliest — tending to sparkle; animated; lively: a row of sparkly cheerleaders.
- spatiality — of or relating to space.
- speakingly — in an eloquent manner
- specialise — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- specialism — devotion or restriction to a particular pursuit, branch of study, etc.
- specialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.