11-letter words containing s, e, p, o
- 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.
- solenoglyph — any poisonous snake of the viper family with hollow, paired, erectile fangs
- sonographer — a diagnostic technician who operates a sonograph
- sophistries — Sophistries are clever arguments that sound convincing but are in fact false.
- sopping wet — soaked, dripping
- soup course — a part of a meal when soup is served
- soup tureen — a large bowl with a lid, from which soup is served at the table
- sour grapes — bitterness about sth unattainable
- space group — a set of symmetry elements that brings a periodic arrangement of points on a Bravais space lattice to its original position.
- space opera — a television or radio drama or motion picture that is a science-fiction adventure story.
- space probe — Aerospace. an unmanned spacecraft designed to explore the solar system and transmit data back to earth.
- spathaceous — of the nature of or resembling a spathe.
- 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
- specialogue — a mail-order catalogue aimed at a specific group of customers
- spectrogram — a representation or photograph of a spectrum.
- spectrology — the study of ghosts, phantoms, or apparitions.
- speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- speech form — linguistic form.
- speed demon — a person who travels or works at high speed.
- speedcoding — (language) A pseudocode interpreter for mathematics on IBM 701 and IBM 650 written by John Backus in 1953.
- speedometer — an instrument on an automobile or other vehicle for indicating the rate of travel in miles or kilometers per hour.
- 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
- sperm donor — a man who supplies sperm to be used in an artificial fertilization process
- 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.
- 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.
- spermophyte — spermatophyte.
- spermotoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermotoxin — a substance toxic to spermatozoa.
- spheroidize — to turn or be turned into spheroids
- 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.
- sphingosine — a basic unsaturated amino alcohol, C 1 8 H 3 3 (OH) 2 NH 2 , produced by the hydrolysis of sphingomyelin or gangliosides.
- spice route — an ancient trade route followed by merchants, importers and exporters trading in exotic spices such as cloves and cinnamon
- spider hole — a foxhole with a camouflaged lid or cover in which a sniper hides
- spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
- spiniferous — (esp of plants) bearing spines or thorns
- spinsterdom — the state of being a spinster
- spiriferous — having a spire or spiral parts.
- spirochaete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
- spleenstone — a stone which was supposed to cure maladies of the spleen
- splendorous — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- splenectomy — excision or removal of the spleen.
- splint bone — one of the rudimentary, splintlike metacarpal or metatarsal bones of the horse or some allied animal, one on each side of the back of each cannon bone.