9-letter words containing s, p, l, a, t
- spoliator — a plunderer
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- spottable — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- sprigtail — the pintail, Anas acuta.
- spritsail — a sail extended by a sprit.
- stampless — without a stamp
- stapedial — the innermost, stirrup-shaped bone of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals, involved in the conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear. Also called stirrup. Compare incus (def 1), malleus.
- staphylo- — uvula
- stavropol — a territory of the Russian Federation in Europe, N of the Caucasus. 29,600 sq. mi. (76,960 sq. km).
- steel pan — steel drum.
- stipulate — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- stoopball — an American street game similar to baseball in which a ball is thrown against a wall or stoop
- stoppable — capable of being stopped.
- strap-oil — a beating
- strapless — without a strap or straps.
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
- sulphatic — sulphuric, of or pertaining to a sulphate
- supersalt — a salt with an excess of acid over base
- supertalk — Silicon Beach Software. A superset of HyperTalk used in SuperCard.
- suppliant — a person who supplicates; petitioner.
- supplicat — a petition (to a university) for a degree
- sympetaly — the condition of fused petals
- tail-spin — spin (def 23).
- talk shop — a retail store, especially a small one.
- tall ship — type of large sailing ship
- tallyshop — a store specializing in selling merchandise on the hire-purchase system.
- tap swirl — a device used to direct the flow of water from a tap in a sink
- teleplasm — a hypothetical emanation from the body of a medium that serves as the means for telekinesis.
- telophase — the final stage of meiosis or mitosis, in which the separated chromosomes reach the opposite poles of the dividing cell and the nuclei of the daughter cells form around the two sets of chromosomes.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- tie clasp — an ornamental metal clasp for securing the two ends of a necktie to a shirt front.
- tonle sap — a lake in W Cambodia, draining into the Mekong River.
- tonoplast — a membrane separating a vacuole from the surrounding cytoplasm in a plant cell.
- top-class — Top-class means among the finest of its kind.
- topcastle — a large fighting top used in medieval ships.
- ultraposh — extremely posh
- whipstall — a stall during a vertical climb in which the nose of the airplane falls forward and downward in a whiplike movement.
- whiptails — Plural form of whiptail.
- ypsilanti — Alexander, 1792–1828, Greek patriot and revolutionary leader.
- zooplasty — the transplantation of living tissue to the human body from an animal of another species.