9-letter words containing s, l, i, p
- sponsalia — marriage; espousals
- sponsible — responsible
- spoolview — (tool) A printing system for Unix. SpoolView can control several printers connected to a TCP/IP network. Different printers can be loaded with different paper and forms. After submitting a print request, the user can change the printer, form, number of copies or priority. Administrators can register new printers, change paper forms on printers, cancel requests, suspend printers.
- spoonbill — any of several wading birds of the family Plataleidae, related to the ibises, having a long, flat bill with a spoonlike tip.
- sporeling — Botany, Mycology. the young individual developed from a spore.
- sporidial — relating or belonging to one or more sporidia
- spot line — a rope or wire hung from a specific place on the gridiron for flying a piece of scenery that could not be flied by the existing battens.
- spotlight — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
- sprawling — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- sprekelia — a bulbous plant, Sprekelia formosissima, from Mexico and Guatemala, related to hippeastrum and grown for its striking crimson or white pendent flowers, in the form of a cross: family Amaryllidaceae
- sprightly — animated or vivacious; lively.
- sprigtail — the pintail, Anas acuta.
- springald — a youth; young fellow.
- springlet — a small spring of water.
- sprinkler — any of various devices for sprinkling, as a watering pot, a container of water with a perforated top used to sprinkle clothes before ironing, or especially a perforated ring or small stand with a revolving nozzle to which a hose is attached for watering a lawn with a fine, even spray.
- spritsail — a sail extended by a sprit.
- spun silk — yarn produced by spinning silk waste and short, broken filaments from which the sericin has been removed. Compare reeled silk.
- stapedial — the innermost, stirrup-shaped bone of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals, involved in the conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear. Also called stirrup. Compare incus (def 1), malleus.
- steepling — an ornamental construction, usually ending in a spire, erected on a roof or tower of a church, public building, etc.
- stepchild — a child of one's spouse by a previous marriage.
- stippling — to paint, engrave, or draw by means of dots or small touches.
- stipulate — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- stockpile — a supply of material, as a pile of gravel in road maintenance.
- stoplight — traffic light.
- strap-oil — a beating
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
- stripling — a youth.
- stylopize — (of a stylops) to parasitize (a host)
- subalpine — pertaining to the regions at the foot of the Alps.
- subapical — located below the apex.
- subprimal — (of meat) being a cut of meat larger than a steak, roast, or other single cut but smaller than a side of beef: shipped by the packer to local markets for final cutting to reduce processing costs and to retard spoilage.
- subpurlin — a light structural member for carrying roofing materials, supported by and running at right angles to purlins.
- sulphatic — sulphuric, of or pertaining to a sulphate
- sulpician — a member of a society of secular priests founded in France in 1642, engaged chiefly in training men to teach in seminaries.
- supercoil — superhelix.
- suppliant — a person who supplicates; petitioner.
- supplicat — a petition (to a university) for a degree
- supplying — to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.
- surprisal — the act of surprising.
- syllepsis — the use of a word or expression to perform two syntactic functions, especially to modify two or more words of which at least one does not agree in number, case, or gender, as the use of are in Neither he nor we are willing.
- sylleptic — the use of a word or expression to perform two syntactic functions, especially to modify two or more words of which at least one does not agree in number, case, or gender, as the use of are in Neither he nor we are willing.
- sylphlike — a slender, graceful woman or girl.
- syphilize — to inoculate with the syphilis virus as a means of curing or preventing the disease
- syphiloid — resembling syphilis.
- syphiloma — a tumour or gumma caused by infection with syphilis
- tail-spin — spin (def 23).
- tall ship — type of large sailing ship
- tap swirl — a device used to direct the flow of water from a tap in a sink
- temps lie — a series of systematized and connected arm and leg movements done for practice.
- tidepools — tidal pool.