11-letter words containing s, i, p
- specializer — a person who specializes in something
- specialogue — a mail-order catalogue aimed at a specific group of customers
- specialties — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
- specifiable — that can be specified.
- specificate — a thing which is specified
- specificity — the quality or state of being specific.
- spectrality — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
- speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- speculatist — a person who speculates
- speculative — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- speechifier — to make a speech or speeches; harangue.
- speed light — an electronic flash lamp.
- speed limit — the maximum speed at which a vehicle is legally permitted to travel, as within a specific area, on a certain road, or under given conditions.
- speedcoding — (language) A pseudocode interpreter for mathematics on IBM 701 and IBM 650 written by John Backus in 1953.
- spellbinder — a person or thing that spellbinds, especially a powerful speaker who can captivate an audience.
- spendthrift — a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal.
- spermatoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermatoxin — a substance toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermicidal — that kills sperm
- 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.
- spermotoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermotoxin — a substance toxic to spermatozoa.
- spessartite — Mineralogy. a yellow or red manganese-aluminum garnet, used as a semiprecious gem.
- sphaeridium — a round body found on sea urchins
- spheroidize — to turn or be turned into spheroids
- sphingosine — a basic unsaturated amino alcohol, C 1 8 H 3 3 (OH) 2 NH 2 , produced by the hydrolysis of sphingomyelin or gangliosides.
- sphinx moth — hawk moth.
- sphragistic — of or relating to seals or signet rings.
- spice route — an ancient trade route followed by merchants, importers and exporters trading in exotic spices such as cloves and cinnamon
- spiculation — formation into spicules.
- spider crab — any of various crabs of the family Majidae, having long, slender legs and a comparatively small, triangular body.
- spider hole — a foxhole with a camouflaged lid or cover in which a sniper hides
- spider lily — any of several plants having lilylike flowers with narrow petals, as those belonging to the genera Crinum, Hymenocallis, and Lycoris, of the amaryllis family.
- spider mite — any of numerous, variously colored web-spinning mites of the family Tetranychidae, many of which are pests of garden plants and fruit trees.
- spider vein — one of a radiating network of dilated capillaries on the skin.
- spider wasp — any of certain wasps, especially of the family Pompilidae, that provision their nests with paralyzed spiders.
- spike heath — a Eurasian evergreen shrub, Bruckenthalia spiculifolia, of the heath family, having narrow leaves and bell-shaped, pink flowers, growing in gritty soil.
- spike heels — Spike heels are women's shoes with very high narrow heels.
- spin a yarn — If you say that someone spins a yarn, you mean that they tell a story that is not true, often an interesting or imaginative one.
- spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
- spin doctor — Slang. a press agent skilled at spin control.
- spin-drying — a technique for extracting water from clothes, linen, etc, by spinning them in a perforated drum
- spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
- spinal cord — the cord of nerve tissue extending through the spinal canal of the spinal column.
- spindlelegs — (used with a plural verb) long, thin legs.
- spinel ruby — ruby spinel.
- spiniferous — (esp of plants) bearing spines or thorns
- spinmeister — spin doctor.