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14-letter words containing p, s, o, r, i

  • spironolactone — a steroid, C 2 4 H 3 2 O 4 S, used in combination with other drugs as a diuretic and antihypertensive.
  • spitting cobra — any cobra or cobralike snake, especially the ringhals, that sprays venom at the eyes of approaching animals.
  • splash erosion — erosion caused by the impact of falling raindrops.
  • splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • splinter group — a small organization that becomes separated from or acts apart from an original larger group or a number of other small groups, with which it would normally be united, as because of disagreement.
  • spoiled priest — a person who was a student for the priesthood but who has withdrawn or been dismissed
  • sporangiophore — a structure bearing sporangia.
  • sporangiospore — a spore that is produced within a sporangium.
  • sporotrichosis — a widespread infectious disease marked by nodules or ulcers of the skin, chiefly affecting humans and domestic mammals and caused by the fungus Sporothrix schenckii.
  • sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
  • sporting house — Older Use. a brothel.
  • sports stadium — an arena where sports are played
  • spotted orchid — any of various common Eurasian orchids, esp the heath and common spotted orchids (Dactylorhiza maculata and D. fuchsii). The flowers are variable but usually have dark blotches
  • spring equinox — the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth and occurring about March 21 (vernal equinox or spring equinox) and September 22 (autumnal equinox)
  • spring molding — a molded board, as one forming part of a cornice, placed diagonally and secured at the ends to two surfaces intersecting at a right angle.
  • springboarding — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • springform pan — a metal cake pan with sides that can be unfastened to facilitate releasing the cake when done.
  • st. louis park — a city in E Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • starting point — place where sth begins
  • steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
  • stella polaris — Polaris.
  • stereospecific — (of a reaction) producing a simple stereoisomer.
  • stop-and-frisk — a policy that permits a police officer to momentarily detain and pat down or search a person suspected of criminal activity, especially when suspected of concealing a weapon.
  • stopping power — a measure of the effect a substance has on the kinetic energy of a particle passing through it
  • stopping train — a train that stops at local stations as well as the main ones
  • storming party — a group deployed to make the first assault on a position or building
  • straight poker — one of the original forms of poker in which players are dealt five cards face down, upon which they bet and then have the showdown without drawing any cards.
  • strepsipterous — belonging or pertaining to the order Strepsiptera, comprising minute insects that are closely related to the beetles, the twisted-winged male being free-living and the wingless female parasitic in various insect hosts.
  • streptobacilli — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
  • streptothricin — an antibacterial substance produced by a soil fungus, Actinomyces lavendulae.
  • strip cropping — the growing of different crops on alternate strips of ground that usually follow the contour of the land, a recourse to minimize erosion.
  • striped gopher — a ground squirrel marked with stripes, especially the thirteen-lined ground squirrel.
  • sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • submicroscopic — too small to be seen through a microscope.
  • subproletariat — the poorest group within the working class
  • sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
  • sulfinyl group — the bivalent group >SO.
  • sun-worshipper — someone who worships the sun as a deity
  • super-rational — beyond the scope or range of reason; intuitional.
  • superambitious — extremely ambitious, highly ambitious
  • superannuation — the act of superannuating.
  • supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
  • superciliously — haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
  • supercommittee — A supercommittee is a committee which has members from two or more organizations or political groups.
  • superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
  • supercontinent — a hypothetical protocontinent of the remote geologic past that rifted apart to form the continents of today.
  • superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
  • supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
  • superimportant — extremely important
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