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11-letter words containing s, e, p, o

  • splodginess — the state of being splodgy
  • spoken word — The spoken word is used to refer to language expressed in speech, for example in contrast to written texts or music.
  • spokesmodel — an attractive or otherwise appealing person who is hired to speak on behalf of a company or product, as in a commercial.
  • spokeswoman — a woman who speaks for another person or for a group.
  • sponge bath — a bath in which the bather is cleaned by a wet sponge or washcloth dipped in water, without getting into a tub of water.
  • sponge cake — a light, sweet cake made with a comparatively large proportion of eggs but no shortening.
  • sponge down — to wipe clean with a damp sponge or cloth
  • sponge iron — finely divided, porous iron, reduced from an oxide at a temperature below the melting point.
  • sponge tree — huisache.
  • spontaneity — the state, quality, or fact of being spontaneous.
  • spontaneous — coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: a spontaneous burst of applause.
  • spoon bread — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a baked dish made with cornmeal, milk, eggs, and shortening, served as an accompaniment to meat.
  • spore fruit — a spore-bearing structure, as an ascoscarp; sporocarp.
  • spore print — the pattern produced by placing the cap of a mushroom on a piece of paper and allowing the spores to fall
  • sporiferous — bearing spores.
  • sporogenous — of or relating to spores or spore production.
  • sports desk — the editorial section of a newspaper, television or radio programme, etc that deals with sports news
  • sports page — newspaper page carrying sports results
  • sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
  • spot height — the elevation of a certain point.
  • spot market — a market in which commodities, as grain, gold, or crude oil, are dealt in for cash and immediate delivery (distinguished from futures market).
  • spot strike — a labor strike by a local branch of a union.
  • spot survey — a survey taken immediately and at random
  • spotted gum — an Australian eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus maculata
  • spotted owl — a dark-brown owl (Strix occidentalis, family Strigidae) with scattered white spots and dark eyes, sometimes seen in the forests of W North America: it is an endangered species
  • spotted ray — any of various species of ray with irregular markings on the back
  • spottedness — the state, condition or quality of being spotted
  • spouted bed — A spouted bed is a bed in which the particles are quite big, and contact only happens in an upward movement of fluid in the middle of the bed.
  • springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
  • stauroscope — an optical instrument for studying the crystal structure of minerals under polarized light
  • steam point — the temperature at which water vapor condenses at a pressure of one atmosphere, represented by 100°C and 212°F.
  • stearoptene — the oxygenated solid part of an essential oil (opposed to eleoptene).
  • steatopygia — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
  • steatopygic — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
  • stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stenotypist — shorthand in which alphabetic letters or types are used to produce shortened forms of words or groups of words.
  • step reebok — a set of aerobic exercises designed to improve the cardiovascular system, which consists of stepping on and off a special box of adjustable height
  • step rocket — a multistage rocket that discards burned-out stages.
  • stepbrother — one's stepfather's son or stepmother's son by a previous marriage.
  • stephanotis — any vine belonging to the genus Stephanotis, of the milkweed family, having fragrant, waxy, white flowers and leathery leaves.
  • steppenwolf — a novel (1927) by Hermann Hesse.
  • stereograph — a single or double picture for a stereoscope.
  • stereophony — the state or condition of being stereophonic.
  • stereoptics — the branch of stereoscopy that is concerned with optics
  • stereoscope — an optical instrument through which two pictures of the same object, taken from slightly different points of view, are viewed, one by each eye, producing the effect of a single picture of the object, with the appearance of depth or relief.
  • stereoscopy — the study of the stereoscope and its techniques.
  • stereotyped — reproduced in or by stereotype plates.
  • stereotypes — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • stereotypic — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • stethoscope — an instrument used in auscultation to convey sounds in the chest or other parts of the body to the ear of the examiner.
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