14-letter words containing s, p, e, n, d, r
- spanish dagger — a stemless or short-trunked plant, Yucca gloriosa, of the agave family, native to the southeastern U.S., having leaves nearly 2½ feet (75 cm) long, with a stiff, sharp point, and greenish-white or reddish flowers nearly 4 inches (10 cm) wide.
- speech-reading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
- speed merchant — a person who habitually drives too fast in a motor vehicle
- spending power — income available for spending
- spending spree — a brief period of extravagant spending
- spider phaeton — (formerly) a light horse-drawn carriage with a high body and large slender wheels
- spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
- 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.
- streptodornase — a deoxyribonuclease, obtained from hemolytic streptococci, used in medicine for decomposing blood clots and fibrinous and purulent matter.
- 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.
- 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
- sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
- superabundance — exceedingly or excessively abundant; more than sufficient; excessive.
- superconductor — the phenomenon of almost perfect conductivity shown by certain substances at temperatures approaching absolute zero. The recent discovery of materials that are superconductive at temperatures hundreds of degrees above absolute zero raises the possibility of revolutionary developments in the production and transmission of electrical energy.
- superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
- superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
- superinsulated — highly insulated
- superintendent — a person who oversees or directs some work, enterprise, establishment, organization, district, etc.; supervisor.
- suspender belt — garter belt.
- swedish turnip — rutabaga.
- the depression — the worldwide economic depression of the early 1930s, when there was mass unemployment
- toreador pants — women's close-fitting slacks that extend to or slightly above the calf, styled after the pants traditionally worn by Spanish bullfighters.
- un-replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- under-pressure — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- underemphasize — to give less than sufficient emphasis to; minimize.
- underrepresent — to give inadequate representation to; represent in numbers that are disproportionately low.
- understrapping — subordinate or inferior
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- unpersonalized — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- unpreparedness — the state of being prepared; readiness.
- unprepossessed — not prepossessed, not prejudiced; unbiased
- unpresidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
- upper sideband — the frequency band above the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
- vespertilionid — any of a large family (Vespertilionidae) of long-tailed bats that are widely distributed, esp. in temperate regions, including most of the small, insect-eating species
- vice president — an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.
- vice-president — an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.
- washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
- wide-spreading — spreading over or covering a large area: wide-spreading showers; wide-spreading ivy.
- window-shopper — to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
- zeno's paradox — any of various versions of a paradox regarding the relation of the discrete to the continuous and requiring the concept of limit for its satisfactory explanation.