14-letter words containing s, i, e, g, p, r
- splinter group — a small organization that becomes separated from or acts apart from an original larger group or a number of other small groups, with which it would normally be united, as because of disagreement.
- sporangiophore — a structure bearing sporangia.
- sporangiospore — a spore that is produced within a sporangium.
- sporting house — Older Use. a brothel.
- spread betting — Spread betting is a form of gambling that involves predicting a range of possible scores or results rather than one particular score or result.
- sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
- spring balance — a device in which an object to be weighed is attached to the end of a helical spring, the extension of which indicates the weight of the object on a calibrated scale
- spring chicken — a young chicken, especially a broiler or fryer.
- spring equinox — the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth and occurring about March 21 (vernal equinox or spring equinox) and September 22 (autumnal equinox)
- springing line — a horizontal line between the springs of an arch or dome.
- starting price — gambling odds
- steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
- stopping power — a measure of the effect a substance has on the kinetic energy of a particle passing through it
- straight poker — one of the original forms of poker in which players are dealt five cards face down, upon which they bet and then have the showdown without drawing any cards.
- striking price — in an option contract, the specified price at which a stock, commodity, etc. may be bought or sold; the price at which an investor can exercise profitably a put or call
- striped gopher — a ground squirrel marked with stripes, especially the thirteen-lined ground squirrel.
- sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
- summer pudding — a pudding made by filling a bread-lined basin with a purée of fruit, leaving it to soak, and then turning it out
- supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
- supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
- surpassingness — the fact of surpassing
- sweeping score — a line at each end of the rink parallel to the foot score and extending through the center of the tee.
- teleprocessing — computerized processing and transmission of data over the telephone or other long-distance communications systems.
- thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
- trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
- unaspiringness — the quality of being unaspiring or unambitious
- understrapping — subordinate or inferior
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- unenterprising — lacking in business initiative
- walking papers — notice of dismissal
- washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
- webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
- wide-spreading — spreading over or covering a large area: wide-spreading showers; wide-spreading ivy.
- winter springs — a town in central Florida.
- working papers — documents permitting employment