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14-letter words containing s, i, n, e, p

  • spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
  • spindle-legged — (used with a plural verb) long, thin legs.
  • spine-chilling — very frightening or horrifying.
  • spine-tingling — A spine-tingling film or piece of music is enjoyable because it causes you to feel a strong emotion such as excitement or fear.
  • spinning frame — a machine for drawing, twisting, and winding yarn.
  • spinning jenny — an early spinning machine having more than one spindle, enabling a person to spin a number of yarns simultaneously.
  • spinning wheel — a device formerly used for spinning wool, flax, etc., into yarn or thread, consisting essentially of a single spindle driven by a large wheel operated by hand or foot.
  • spinthariscope — an instrument that detects ionizing radiation by picking up sparks of light from alpha particles.
  • spiny anteater — echidna.
  • spiritus lenis — smooth breathing.
  • spironolactone — a steroid, C 2 4 H 3 2 O 4 S, used in combination with other drugs as a diuretic and antihypertensive.
  • spit and image — a person who bears a strong physical resemblance to another, esp to a relative
  • spitting image — spit1 (def 13).
  • spittle insect — any of numerous leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cercopidae, which in the immature stages live in a spittlelike secretion on plants.
  • splash erosion — erosion caused by the impact of falling raindrops.
  • 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.
  • split decision — a decision of a bout on whose outcome the referee and judges did not unanimously agree.
  • sponge pudding — a light steamed or baked pudding, spongy in texture, made with various flavourings or fruit
  • sporangiophore — a structure bearing sporangia.
  • sporangiospore — a spore that is produced within a sporangium.
  • sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
  • 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.
  • spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
  • spy-in-the-sky — of or relating to a surveillance camera mounted on an aircraft or orbiting satellite
  • starting price — gambling odds
  • steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
  • stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
  • stepping stone — stone: used to cross water
  • sticking place — Also called sticking point. the place or point at which something stops and holds firm.
  • stopping place — a place where vehicles may stop temporarily
  • stopping power — a measure of the effect a substance has on the kinetic energy of a particle passing through it
  • streptothricin — an antibacterial substance produced by a soil fungus, Actinomyces lavendulae.
  • 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 marlin — a marlin, Tetrapturus audax, of the Pacific Ocean, having the sides of the body marked with dark blue vertical stripes, valued for sport and food.
  • styptic pencil — a pencil-shaped stick of a paste containing alum or a similar styptic agent, used to stanch the bleeding of minor cuts.
  • sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
  • sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
  • sulphanilamide — a white odourless crystalline compound formerly used in medicine in the treatment of bacterial infections. Formula: NH2C6H4SO2NH2
  • 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
  • sun-worshipper — someone who worships the sun as a deity
  • sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
  • sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
  • super-rational — beyond the scope or range of reason; intuitional.
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