11-letter words containing s, l, i, p, c
- 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.
- spermicidal — that kills sperm
- spiculation — formation into spicules.
- spinachlike — resembling or characteristic of spinach
- spinal cord — the cord of nerve tissue extending through the spinal canal of the spinal column.
- spondulicks — money; cash.
- spondylitic — inflammation of the vertebrae.
- spring lock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
- stock split — the act or result of splitting stock
- stockpiling — the activity of acquiring and storing a large quantity of something
- subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
- super-slick — very well-executed or presented
- supercilium — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
- superficial — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- supplicavit — a mandatory writ formerly issued from the King's Bench or Court of Chancery
- susceptible — admitting or capable of some specified treatment: susceptible of a high polish; susceptible to various interpretations.
- suspectible — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- suspicional — of or relating to suspicion, especially morbid or insane suspicions.
- switch plug — a plug, as for an electric iron, equipped with an on-off switch.
- technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
- telescoping — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- telescopist — someone who is adept with a telescope
- telescopium — an inconspicuous constellation in the S hemisphere, close to Sagittarius and Ara
- top slicing — mining of thick orebodies in a series of stopes from top to bottom, the roof being caved with its timbers as each stope is exhausted.
- tricuspidal — having three cusps
- typicalness — of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
- unapostolic — not apostolic; not related to or characteristic of the early Christian apostles or their subsequent apostles
- undisplaced — lacking a home, country, etc.
- usucaptible — able to be taken possession of
- xenoplastic — involving distantly related individuals
- xiphocostal — Pertaining to the xiphoid process and the ribs.