10-letter words containing p, s, i, l
- 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.
- spoil bank — a bank of excavated refuse or waste earth, as of shale from surface coal mining.
- 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
- spondaical — composed of spondees
- sponsional — relating to, involved in or entering into a sponsion
- spoon nail — an abnormal condition in which the outer surfaces of the nails are concave; koilonychia.
- sporadical — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sporicidal — a substance or preparation for killing spores.
- sportingly — engaging in, disposed to, or interested in open-air or athletic sports: a rugged, sporting man.
- sprightful — sprightly.
- springdale — a city in NW Arkansas.
- springerle — anise-flavored cookies, orig. of Germany
- springhalt — stringhalt.
- springless — having no springs: a springless bed.
- springlike — to rise, leap, move, or act suddenly and swiftly, as by a sudden dart or thrust forward or outward, or being suddenly released from a coiled or constrained position: to spring into the air; a tiger about to spring.
- springlock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
- 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.
- sprinkling — the act or an instance of sprinkling.
- spritelike — an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- spuriously — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
- 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.
- sulphonium — the hypothetical univalent radical -SH3
- sulphoxide — any compound containing a sulphinyl group (SO) and a hydrocarbon radical
- sulphurise — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur.
- sulphurize — to combine or treat with sulphur or a sulphur compound
- sun pillar — a halo phenomenon in which a vertical streak of light appears above and below the sun, believed to be caused by the reflection of sunlight by ice crystals with vertical axes.
- supercilia — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
- superelite — (often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- superfluid — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
- superhelix — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
- superiorly — higher in station, rank, degree, importance, etc.: a superior officer.
- superlight — extremely light