9-letter words containing s, a, o, p
- sponsalia — marriage; espousals
- spoonways — like spoons, esp by fitting together in the way that spoons do
- sporangia — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- sporidial — relating or belonging to one or more sporidia
- sporocarp — (in higher fungi, lichens, and red algae) a multicellular structure in which spores form; a fruiting body.
- sporozoal — belonging or relating to Sporozoa
- sporozoan — any parasitic spore-forming protozoan of the phylum (or class) Sporozoa, several species of which, as plasmodia, cause malaria.
- sport car — a small, high-powered automobile with long, low lines, usually seating two persons.
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- sportsman — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- spot card — spot (def 10b).
- spot cash — an amount of money paid immediately in cash
- spot pass — a pass intentionally directed to a specific place in the court or field instead of a particular receiver, the receiver being expected to arrive at the place at the same time as the ball.
- spot rate — trading: immediate price
- spottable — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- stamp out — to strike or beat with a forcible, downward thrust of the foot.
- staphylo- — uvula
- stavropol — a territory of the Russian Federation in Europe, N of the Caucasus. 29,600 sq. mi. (76,960 sq. km).
- stenopaic — (of an optic device) having a narrow opening devised to improve eyesight by limiting obscurations
- stoopball — an American street game similar to baseball in which a ball is thrown against a wall or stoop
- stop bath — an acid bath or rinse for stopping the action of a developer before fixing a negative or print.
- stop bead — a strip of molding along the inside of a window frame for holding a sliding sash.
- stoppable — capable of being stopped.
- stopwatch — a watch with a hand or hands that can be stopped or started at any instant, used for precise timing, as in races.
- strap-oil — a beating
- strappado — an old form of punishment or torture in which the victim, with arms bound behind, was raised from the ground by a rope fastened to the wrists, abruptly released, then arrested with a painful jerk just before reaching the ground.
- strapwork — a type of ornamentation imitating pierced and interlaced straps or bands, usually forming a geometric pattern.
- strapwort — a seaside plant with leaves resembling straps
- stroupach — a cup of tea
- subpoenas — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- superatom — a cluster of atoms behaving in certain ways like a single atom
- supernova — the explosion of a star, possibly caused by gravitational collapse, during which the star's luminosity increases by as much as 20 magnitudes and most of the star's mass is blown away at very high velocity, sometimes leaving behind an extremely dense core.
- superroad — an extremely large road
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.
- swap shop — a store or shop where items, especially secondhand ones, are traded or sold.
- sweatshop — a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
- swordplay — the action or technique of wielding a sword; fencing.
- sycophant — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sympatico — simpatico
- symphonia — any of various medieval musical instruments, as the hurdy-gurdy.
- symposiac — of, relating to, or suitable for a symposium.
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- syphiloma — a tumour or gumma caused by infection with syphilis
- talk shop — a retail store, especially a small one.
- tallyshop — a store specializing in selling merchandise on the hire-purchase system.
- tap shoes — shoes worn by tap-dancers which are equipped with taps that make a rhythmic sound when the shoes are used for dancing
- telophase — the final stage of meiosis or mitosis, in which the separated chromosomes reach the opposite poles of the dividing cell and the nuclei of the daughter cells form around the two sets of chromosomes.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.