9-letter words containing s, p, i, r, e
- skip rope — A skip rope is a piece of rope, usually with handles at each end. You exercise or play with it by turning it around and around and jumping over it.
- slipcover — a cover of cloth or other material for a piece of furniture, as an upholstered chair or sofa, made so as to be easily removable.
- slipdress — a style of sleeveless dress with thin shoulder straps, resembling a slip.
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- spareribs — a cut of meat from the rib section, especially of pork or beef, with some meat adhering to the bones.
- sparteine — a bitter, poisonous, liquid alkaloid obtained from certain species of broom, especially Cytisus scoparius, used in medicine to stimulate the heart and also the uterine muscles in childbirth.
- sparterie — things made from esparto
- spartiate — a member of the ruling class of ancient Laconia; a Spartan citizen. Compare Helot (def 1), Perioeci.
- sparticle — a hypothetical elementary particle thought to have been produced in the Big Bang
- spearfish — fish: type of marlin
- spearlike — resembling a spear
- spearmint — an aromatic herb, Mentha spicata, having lance-shaped leaves used for flavoring.
- specifier — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- speranski — Mikhail Mikhailovich (mixɑˈil). 1772–1839, Russian statesman, chief adviser (1807–12) to Alexander I. His greatest achievement was the codification of Russian law (begun 1826)
- sperm oil — a yellow, thin, water-insoluble liquid obtained from the sperm whale, used chiefly as a lubricant in light machinery, as watches, clocks, and scientific apparatus.
- spermaria — spermaries
- spermatia — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
- spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
- spermatid — Cell Biology. one of the cells that result from the meiotic divisions of a spermatocyte and mature into spermatozoa.
- sphaerite — an aluminium phosphate
- spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- sphincter — a circular band of voluntary or involuntary muscle that encircles an orifice of the body or one of its hollow organs.
- spiderish — relating to or resembling a spider
- spiderman — a person who erects the steel structure of a building
- spiderweb — to cover with a spider web or fine lines resembling a spider web.
- spielberg — Steven, born 1947, U.S. film director.
- spikenard — an aromatic, Indian plant, Nardostachys jatamansi, of the valerian family, believed to be the nard of the ancients.
- spillover — the act of spilling over.
- spinnaker — a large, usually triangular sail carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind or when the wind is abaft the beam.
- spinneret — an organ or part by means of which a spider, insect larva, or the like spins a silky thread for its web or cocoon.
- spiralled — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- spiraster — a part of a living sponge
- spireless — having no spire
- spirewise — in the manner of a spire
- spirituel — showing or having a refined and graceful mind or wit.
- 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.
- splitters — a person or thing that splits.
- sporeling — Botany, Mycology. the young individual developed from a spore.
- sporicide — a substance or preparation for killing spores.
- sporidesm — a multicellular group of spores
- 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
- 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.
- sprintnet — A public packet-switched network using the ITU-T X.25 protocols, that provides dial-up access to services like Delphi, Portal, GEnie and Compuserve.
- st-pierre — town in NW Martinique, West Indies, on the site of a city destroyed (1902) by eruption of Mount Pelée: pop. 5,000
- stairstep — a step in a staircase.
- stepchair — a set of steps folding into a chair.
- store pig — a pig that has not yet been weaned and weighs less than 40 kg