11-letter words containing r, e, l, a, p
- self-parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- self-praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- semelparous — (of a plant) producing flowers and fruit only once before dying
- semipopular — relatively popular; quite popular
- sempiternal — everlasting; eternal.
- septemviral — of or relating to septemvirs or a septemvirate.
- septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
- serial port — A serial port on a computer is a place where you can connect the computer to a device such as a modem or a mouse.
- sharpeville — a town in E South Africa: scene of riots in 1960 (when 69 demonstrators died), 1984, and 1985 (when 19 died)
- shelf paper — paper used for covering shelves, especially those of a cupboard or kitchen cabinet.
- shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
- sleepwalker — the act or state of walking, eating, or performing other motor acts while asleep, of which one is unaware upon awakening; somnambulism.
- soap boiler — a manufacturer of soap
- solar panel — a bank of solar cells.
- solar power — energy generated by the sun
- spacewalker — a person who manoeuvres in space while outside but attached to a spacecraft
- spare wheel — A spare wheel is a wheel with a tyre on it that you keep in your car in case you get a flat tyre and need to replace one of your wheels.
- sparklessly — in a sparkless manner
- specializer — a person who specializes in something
- spectacular — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- spectrality — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- sperm whale — a large, square-snouted whale, Physeter catodon, valued for its oil and spermaceti: now reduced in number and rare in some areas.
- spermicidal — that kills sperm
- spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
- spinsterial — relating to a spinster
- spiral gear — a type of helical gear used for transmitting power between shafts that are at an angle to each other.
- spirit lake — a lake in SW Washington, at the N foot of Mount St. Helens: site of devastation during 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- spreadingly — in a spreading manner
- strandloper — a member of an extinct tribe of Khoikhoi or Bushmen who lived on seafood gathered on the beaches of southern Africa
- stroke play — medal play.
- subparallel — not quite parallel
- sugar apple — sweetsop.
- sugar maple — any of several maples having a sweet sap, especially Acer saccharum (the state tree of New York, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin), having a short trunk and long, curving branches, yielding a hard wood used for making furniture and being the chief source of maple sugar.
- superaltern — a universal proposition that is the basis for the immediate inference of a corresponding particular proposition.
- superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
- superficial — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- supergalaxy — a system of galaxies.
- superlative — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- superlawyer — an extremely successful lawyer
- superlunary — situated above or beyond the moon.
- supernormal — in excess of the normal or average: supernormal faculties; supernormal production.
- superplayer — an exceptionally talented player
- superscalar — (of a computer) performing several tasks at once
- supervisual — of or relating to seeing or sight: a visual image.
- supportable — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
- surpassable — to go beyond in amount, extent, or degree; be greater than; exceed.
- tape player — a small device for playing magnetic tape recordings.