9-letter words containing s, p, i, l, r
- spirillar — any of several spirally twisted, aerobic bacteria of the genus Spirillum, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans.
- spirillum — any of several spirally twisted, aerobic bacteria of the genus Spirillum, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans.
- spiritful — full of spirit or spiritual
- spiritual — of, relating to, or consisting of spirit; incorporeal.
- spirituel — showing or having a refined and graceful mind or wit.
- spirulina — any of the blue-green algae of the genus Spirulina, sometimes added to food for its nutrient value.
- spit curl — a tight curl of hair, usually pressed against the forehead or cheek.
- spitteler — Carl [German kahrl] /German kɑrl/ (Show IPA), ("Felix Tandem") 1845–1924, Swiss poet, novelist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1919.
- splintery — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- split run — a pressrun, as that of a newspaper or magazine, which is interrupted after the running of a specified number of copies to permit the substitution of type or of a cut, as in a keyed advertisement: a device for testing the relative effectiveness of different versions of an advertisement.
- splitters — a person or thing that splits.
- spoil for — If you are spoiling for a fight, you are very eager for it to happen.
- spoliator — a plunderer
- sporeling — Botany, Mycology. the young individual developed from a spore.
- sporidial — relating or belonging to one or more sporidia
- 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.
- strap-oil — a beating
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
- stripling — a youth.
- 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.
- supercoil — superhelix.
- surprisal — the act of surprising.
- tap swirl — a device used to direct the flow of water from a tap in a sink
- unispiral — having one spiral.
- walpurgis — Saint, a.d. c710–780, English missionary and abbess in Germany: feast day May 1.