9-letter words containing s, p, a, b
- bra strap — a strap for fastening a bra
- breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment
- buttstrap — (in metal construction) a plate which overlaps and fastens two pieces butted together.
- bypassers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- bypassing — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- capybaras — Plural form of capybara.
- chapbooks — Plural form of chapbook.
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- debt swap — A debt swap is a legal agreement where two people or companies exchange their debts, often where one has a fixed interest rate and one does not.
- deposable — Capable of being deposed, or deprived of office.
- escapable — Able to be escaped or run from.
- gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
- graspable — to seize and hold by or as if by clasping with the fingers or arms.
- gypsy cab — a taxicab that is licensed only to pick up passengers on call by telephone, but that often illegally seeks passengers on the street.
- hapsburgs — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- hyperbase — (database) An experimental active multi-user database for hypertext systems from the University of Aalborg, written in C++. It is built on the client-server model enabling distributed, concurrent, and shared access from workstations in a local area network. See also EHTS.
- hypobasis — the lowermost distinctively treated part of a base.
- hypoblast — the endoderm.
- imposable — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- kelp bass — a sea bass, Paralabrax clathratus, of southern California coastal waters, valued as a food and game fish.
- labor spy — an employee who is used by management to spy on union activities.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- lapboards — Plural form of lapboard.
- mopboards — Plural form of mopboard.
- opposable — capable of being placed opposite to something else: the opposable thumb of primates.
- par-sable — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- parabasis — (in ancient Greek drama) a choral ode addressed to the audience, especially of comedy, and independent of the action of the play: usually following the agon and, in the earliest forms of comedy, serving often to end the play.
- parablast — the nutritive yolk of a meroblastic ovum or egg.
- pasodoble — fast modern ballroom dance
- pass band — the range of frequencies that pass with a minimum of attenuation through an electronic filter.
- passer-by — a person passing by.
- passersby — a person passing by.
- pea shrub — any of various small trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Caragana, of the legume family, native to central Asia, having showy, usually yellow flowers, cultivated as an ornamental.
- pen-based — (of a computer) having an electronic stylus rather than a keyboard as the primary input device.
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
- perusable — having the ability to be perused
- plausible — having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable: a plausible excuse; a plausible plot.
- plausibly — having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable: a plausible excuse; a plausible plot.
- polybasic — (of an acid) having two or more atoms of replaceable hydrogen.
- post-boat — mailboat.
- preabsorb — to absorb beforehand or in advance
- pressable — to act upon with steadily applied weight or force.
- psalmbook — a book containing psalms for liturgical or devotional use.
- pulsebeat — pulse1 (def 1).
- pursuable — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- push back — force to retreat
- raspberry — the fruit of any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family, consisting of small and juicy red, black, or pale yellow drupelets forming a detachable cap about a convex receptacle.
- san pablo — a city in the Philippines, on S Luzon.
- saprobial — relating to saprobity