11-letter words containing s, p, i, l, r
- splintering — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- split brain — having, involving, or pertaining to a severed corpus callosum.
- split hairs — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- split skirt — a pair of women's shorts with flared legs resembling a skirt; culottes
- split-brain — having, involving, or pertaining to a severed corpus callosum.
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- spreadingly — in a spreading manner
- sprightless — without any spirit or liveliness
- spring lamb — a lamb born in the late winter or early spring and sold for slaughter before July 1.
- spring line — warp (def 16).
- spring lock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
- spring roll — an egg roll.
- springfield — a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,400 sq. mi. (146,075 sq. km). Capital: Springfield. Abbreviation: IL (for use with zip code), Ill.
- springville — a town in central Utah.
- sprinklered — having or protected by a sprinkler system.
- spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
- stipuliform — shaped like a stipule.
- strike slip — the component of slip on a fault parallel with the linear extension or strike of the fault.
- strip light — A strip light is an electric light in the form of a long tube.
- subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
- super-slick — very well-executed or presented
- super-title — (especially in opera production) a translation of a segment of the libretto or other text or sometimes a brief summary of the plot projected onto a screen above the stage during a performance.
- supercilium — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
- superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
- superficial — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- superfluity — the state of being superfluous.
- superlative — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- superpolite — extremely polite
- supertitles — (especially in opera production) a translation of a segment of the libretto or other text or sometimes a brief summary of the plot projected onto a screen above the stage during a performance.
- supervirile — highly virile
- supervisual — of or relating to seeing or sight: a visual image.
- surplussing — something that remains above what is used or needed.
- syrphid fly — any of numerous beelike or wasplike flies of the family Syrphidae that feed on the nectar and pollen of flowers and have larvae that feed on decaying vegetation or prey on aphids.
- teles pires — a river in central Brazil, flowing NW to the Tapajos River. 600 miles (965 km) long.
- timepleaser — a timeserver.
- transalpine — situated beyond the Alps, especially toward the north as viewed from Italy.
- tricuspidal — having three cusps
- tripersonal — consisting of or existing in three persons, as the Godhead.
- tripetalous — having three petals.
- triphyllous — having three leaves.
- triptolemus — a favorite of Demeter and the inventor of the plow and patron of agriculture, connected with the Eleusinian mysteries.
- trisepalous — having three sepals.
- trisulphide — any sulphide containing three sulphur atoms per molecule
- turing plus — Systems programming language, a concurrent descendant of Turing. Available from Holt Software Assocs, Toronto <[email protected]>.
- ultrasimple — extremely or exceptionally easy
- unipersonal — consisting of or existing as one person only.
- unspiritual — not spiritual
- unsprinkled — not sprinkled, esp not baptized
- very pistol — a special pistol which fires coloured flares for signalling at night, esp at sea