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13-letter words containing s, p, i, l, r

  • spiral nebula — (formerly) a spiral galaxy.
  • spiral spring — a form of spring consisting of a wire coiled in a helix.
  • splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
  • splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
  • spoiler party — a third political party formed to draw votes away from one of the two major parties, thus spoiling its chance of winning an election.
  • sporopollenin — an inert, tough polymer forming the resistant outer coat of a pollen grain or spore.
  • sporting lady — a prostitute.
  • sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • spreadability — capable of being spread; easily spread: a soft, spreadable cheese.
  • sprightliness — animated or vivacious; lively.
  • spring a leak — to develop a leak
  • spring squill — a European liliaceous plant Scilla verna, having small blue or purple flowers
  • spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
  • spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
  • sprint medley — a medley relay in which the first member of a team runs 440 yards, the second and third members run 220 yards each, and the fourth member runs 880 yards.
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • square splice — a scarf joint between two pieces, having the form of a half-lap joint with a thicker and a thinner section for each piece, the thicker one being at the end: used to resist tension.
  • stader splint — a splint consisting of an adjustable metal rod with a steel pin at either end for insertion in the bone above and below a fracture.
  • standard lisp — A subset of Lisp 1.5 developed by A. Hearn primarily for implementing REDUCE. It was replaced by Portable Sandard LISP.
  • stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • stirpiculture — the production of special stocks or strains by careful breeding.
  • string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
  • string-puller — a person who uses his or her influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
  • striped maple — a maple, Acer pensylvanicum, of northeastern North America, having white-striped bark.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • sublime porte — official name of Porte.
  • subperiosteal — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
  • subprime loan — A subprime loan is a loan with a higher interest rate, to borrowers who are a high credit risk.
  • subtriplicate — designating or involving the ratio of the cube roots of two terms
  • subtropically — in the subtropics
  • sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.
  • sulfite paper — paper made from sulfite pulp.
  • sulfur spring — a spring the water of which contains naturally occurring sulfur compounds.
  • supercollider — a very large colliding-beam machine in which superconducting magnets create millions of megavolts of energy.
  • supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
  • supercritical — extremely critical.
  • superdiplomat — a highly skilled or powerful diplomat, a high-ranking diplomat
  • superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • superfluidity — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
  • supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
  • superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
  • superlatively — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
  • superlobbyist — someone who lobbies on behalf of another
  • superloyalist — a fanatically loyal supporter (esp of a political party)
  • supermilitant — highly militant
  • supermotility — Biology. moving or capable of moving spontaneously: motile cells; motile spores.
  • supernational — tending to involve, or extending authority over, more than one nation; international; supranational.
  • superparticle — (in supersymmetry theory) a theoretical particle that is a partner to an observed particle, having the same mass but a different spin
  • superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
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