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11-letter words containing r, e, p, l

  • slipperwort — any of several tropical American plants belonging to the genus Calceolaria, of the figwort family, having opposite or whorled leaves and slipper-shaped flowers.
  • soap boiler — a manufacturer of soap
  • solar panel — a bank of solar cells.
  • solar power — energy generated by the sun
  • soldiership — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
  • 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.
  • spectrology — the study of ghosts, phantoms, or apparitions.
  • specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
  • speculatory — a place suitable for observation
  • spellbinder — a person or thing that spellbinds, especially a powerful speaker who can captivate an audience.
  • 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
  • spermophile — any of various burrowing rodents of the squirrel family, especially of the genus Spermophilus (or Citellus), sometimes sufficiently numerous to do much damage to crops, as the ground squirrels and susliks.
  • spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
  • spider hole — a foxhole with a camouflaged lid or cover in which a sniper hides
  • spider lily — any of several plants having lilylike flowers with narrow petals, as those belonging to the genera Crinum, Hymenocallis, and Lycoris, of the amaryllis family.
  • spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
  • spinel ruby — ruby spinel.
  • 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.
  • spirituelle — having a refined and lively mind or wit; spirituel
  • splendorous — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
  • splintering — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
  • sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
  • spreadingly — in a spreading manner
  • sprightless — without any spirit or liveliness
  • spring line — warp (def 16).
  • springfield — a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,400 sq. mi. (146,075 sq. km). Capital: Springfield. Abbreviation: IL (for use with zip code), Ill.
  • springville — a town in central Utah.
  • sprinklered — having or protected by a sprinkler system.
  • strandloper — a member of an extinct tribe of Khoikhoi or Bushmen who lived on seafood gathered on the beaches of southern Africa
  • strike slip — the component of slip on a fault parallel with the linear extension or strike of the fault.
  • 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.
  • sulphureous — of the yellow colour of sulphur
  • super-slick — very well-executed or presented
  • super-title — (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.
  • superaltern — a universal proposition that is the basis for the immediate inference of a corresponding particular proposition.
  • supercilium — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
  • superdeluxe — very luxurious, more than deluxe
  • superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
  • superficial — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
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