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14-letter words containing s, p, i, t

  • breast implant — an object such as a sachet filled with gel introduced surgically into a woman's breast to enlarge it
  • british empire — (formerly) the United Kingdom and the territories under its control, which reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I when it embraced over a quarter of the world's population and more than a quarter of the world's land surface
  • britney spears — beers
  • bronchospastic — of or relating to bronchospasms
  • brood parasite — a young bird hatched and reared by birds of a different species as a result of brood parasitism.
  • brownie points — a credit toward advancement or good standing gained especially by currying favor.
  • bumper sticker — A bumper sticker is a small piece of paper or plastic with words or pictures on it, designed for sticking onto the back of your car. It usually has a political, religious, or humorous message.
  • bursting point — the point at which normal capacity is exceeded.
  • campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
  • capital assets — any assets, tangible or intangible, that are held for long-term investment
  • capitalisation — The act or process of capitalising.
  • captain's mast — a hearing conducted by the captain of a vessel into minor offences of the crew
  • captain's pick — the selection by a team's captain of a player for that team, often a player who has not met criteria for automatic selection
  • captain's walk — widow's walk
  • carpet slipper — Carpet slippers are soft, comfortable slippers.
  • catastrophical — of the nature of a catastrophe, or disastrous event; calamitous: a catastrophic failure of the dam.
  • catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
  • catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
  • caustic potash — potassium hydroxide
  • cavalier poets — a group of mid-17th-century English lyric poets, mostly courtiers of Charles I. Chief among them were Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace
  • celestial pole — either of the two points at which the earth's axis, extended to infinity, would intersect the celestial sphere
  • centripetalism — the movement of things towards a centre
  • cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
  • chase pointers — (programming)   To determine a chain of memory locations where each location holds a pointer to the next, starting from some initial pointer, e.g. traversing a linked list or other graph structure. This may be performed by a computer executing a program or by a programmer going through a core dump or using a debugger.
  • chauvinist pig — a sexist man
  • chemotherapies — Plural form of chemotherapy.
  • chemotherapist — One who administers chemotherapy.
  • chest-thumping — the act or practice of boasting.
  • chromoproteins — Plural form of chromoprotein.
  • circumposition — the act of circumposing
  • circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
  • circumspective — given to or marked by circumspection; watchful; cautious: His behavior was circumspective.
  • claustrophilia — abnormal pleasure derived from being in a confined space
  • claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
  • claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
  • cleistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
  • cleptomaniacs' — kleptomania.
  • cleptoparasite — Alternative spelling of kleptoparasite.
  • close position — an arrangement of a chord that has the three upper voices close together
  • co-conspirator — a fellow conspirator; associate or collaborator in a conspiracy.
  • coconspirators — Plural form of coconspirator.
  • collapsibility — (uncountable) The condition of being collapsible (or collapsable).
  • colt distemper — distemper1 (def 1b).
  • comma position — angulation (def 3).
  • comma-position — an angular part, position, or formation.
  • commandantship — the office of a commandant
  • companion star — companion1 (def 6).
  • compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
  • compatibilists — Plural form of compatibilist.
  • compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
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