11-letter words containing r, t, s, p
- slipperette — a disposable slipper, often of paper, as for wear during a long airplane or train trip.
- 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.
- small print — text typewritten in a small-sized font
- smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- snapshooter — an amateur photographer, especially one who takes snapshots with a simple camera.
- snow report — a regular weather report that concentrates on details of amounts of snow and conditions at ski resorts
- soft-soaper — a person who flatters or cajoles, especially for reasons of self-interest or personal advantage: a soft-soaper specializing in rich, elderly women.
- sophistries — Sophistries are clever arguments that sound convincing but are in fact false.
- soroptimist — a member of an international association of professional or executive businesswomen (Soroptimist Club) devoted primarily to welfare work.
- soup tureen — a large bowl with a lid, from which soup is served at the table
- sparagmatic — denoting a type of Precambrian rock found in Scandinavia
- sparrowfart — the very early morning
- spartanburg — a city in NW South Carolina.
- spatterdash — a long gaiter to protect the trousers or stockings, as from mud while riding.
- spatterdock — any of various water lilies of the genus Nuphar, having globular yellow flowers and growing in lakes or sluggish streams, especially N. advena, of the eastern U.S.
- spatterwork — a method of decorating whereby ink or another fluid is spattered over a medium
- 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.
- spectrogram — a representation or photograph of a spectrum.
- spectrology — the study of ghosts, phantoms, or apparitions.
- specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- speechcraft — the art of rhetoric
- speedometer — an instrument on an automobile or other vehicle for indicating the rate of travel in miles or kilometers per hour.
- spendthrift — a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal.
- spent force — If you refer to someone who used to be powerful as a spent force, you mean that they no longer have any power or influence.
- sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
- spermaphyte — the placenta of a plant
- spermatheca — a small sac or cavity in female or hermaphroditic invertebrates used to store sperm for fertilizing eggs, as in the queen bee.
- spermatoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermatoxin — a substance toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermatozoa — one of the minute, usually actively motile gametes in semen, which serve to fertilize the ovum; a mature male reproductive cell.
- spermophyte — spermatophyte.
- spermotoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermotoxin — a substance toxic to spermatozoa.
- spessartite — Mineralogy. a yellow or red manganese-aluminum garnet, used as a semiprecious gem.
- spherometer — an instrument for measuring the curvature of spheres and curved surfaces.
- spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
- sphragistic — of or relating to seals or signet rings.
- spice route — an ancient trade route followed by merchants, importers and exporters trading in exotic spices such as cloves and cinnamon
- spider mite — any of numerous, variously colored web-spinning mites of the family Tetranychidae, many of which are pests of garden plants and fruit trees.
- spin doctor — Slang. a press agent skilled at spin control.
- spinmeister — spin doctor.
- spinsterdom — the state of being a spinster
- spinsterial — relating to a spinster
- spinsterian — relating to a spinster
- spinsterish — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- spirit away — the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul.
- spirit cave — an archaeological site in Thailand that has produced evidence of very early plant domestication in Southeast Asia, dated c7000 b.c.
- 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.