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13-letter words containing s, p, i

  • astrophysical — Of or pertaining to astrophysics.
  • at this point — at this moment in time
  • atmospherical — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
  • atypicalities — not typical; not conforming to the type; irregular; abnormal: atypical behavior; a flower atypical of the species.
  • audiographics — audiographic teleconferencing
  • austrian pine — an evergreen tree, Pina nigra austriaca
  • awe-inspiring — If you describe someone or something as awe-inspiring, you are emphasizing that you think that they are remarkable and amazing, although sometimes rather frightening.
  • baby primrose — a tender primrose, Primula forbesii, native to China and Burma, having white, hairy leaves and rose- or lilac-colored flowers with a yellow center.
  • back-slapping — Back-slapping is noisy, cheerful behaviour which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
  • bacterioscopy — the examination of bacteria with a microscope.
  • balch springs — a town in NE Texas.
  • ballistospore — a spore, esp a fungal spore, that is forcefully ejected from its source
  • balsam capivi — copaiba.
  • banana spider — a large, yellowish, tropical crab spider (Heteropoda venatoria) occasionally found in bunches of bananas shipped to the Temperate Zones
  • bandspreading — an additional tuning control in some radio receivers whereby a selected narrow band of frequencies can be spread over a wider frequency band, in order to give finer control of tuning
  • barley stripe — a disease of barley, characterized by blighted heads and chlorotic, brown, or frayed stripes on the leaves, caused by a fungus, Helminthosporium gramineum.
  • barred spiral — a spiral galaxy in which the arms originate at the ends of a bar-shaped nucleus
  • barristership — the office of a barrister
  • base hospital — a hospital serving a large rural area
  • basic plumage — the plumage assumed by an adult bird at its complete, usually annual, molt.
  • basic process — Military. basic training. a soldier or airman receiving basic training.
  • basidiospores — Plural form of basidiospore.
  • be upstanding — (in a court of law) a direction to all persons present to rise to their feet before the judge enters or leaves the court
  • beam splitter — a system that divides a beam of light, electrons, etc, into two or more paths
  • beaux esprits — bel esprit
  • beaux-esprits — plural of bel-esprit.
  • best practice — Best practice is the way of running a business or providing a service that is recognized as correct or most effective.
  • bias-ply tire — a vehicle tire in which the main plies or cords run across the bead.
  • biased sample — a statistical sample in which the items selected share some property which influences their distribution
  • bibliophagist — a person who devours books
  • binary pulsar — a pulsar in a binary system.
  • biopsychology — a field of psychology that deals with the effects of biological factors on behavior.
  • biospeleology — the study of organisms that live in caves.
  • bipartisanism — the quality of being bipartisan
  • biphasic pill — a drug with two dosage levels over the period taken, as an oral contraceptive.
  • birth parents — a child's biological parents, regardless of whether they subsequently bring up the child
  • bishop sleeve — a full sleeve gathered at the wrist
  • bishop violet — a reddish purple.
  • bishop's ring — a reddish-brown corona occasionally seen around the sun, caused by volcanic dust in the atmosphere.
  • bishop's weed — goutweed.
  • bishop's-weed — goutweed.
  • bits per inch — (unit)   (BPI) A measure of the recording density of a magnetic tape or disk.
  • blaise pascal — Blaise [bleyz;; French blez] /bleɪz;; French blɛz/ (Show IPA), 1623–62, French philosopher and mathematician.
  • bledisloe cup — a trophy competed for, usually annually, by New Zealand and Australia since 1932
  • boarding pass — A boarding pass is a card that a passenger must have when boarding a plane or a boat.
  • body shopping — the purchasing of manpower from another country, usually one where wages are cheap
  • bomb disposal — Bomb disposal is the job of dealing with bombs which have not exploded, by taking out the fuse or by blowing them up in a controlled explosion.
  • book scorpion — any of various small arachnids of the order Pseudoscorpionida (false scorpions), esp Chelifer cancroides, which are sometimes found in old books, etc
  • boring sponge — any of a family (Clionidae) of sponges that settle on and dissolve the shells of clams
  • breaker strip — breaker1 (def 4).
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