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Words containing s, p, o, r, u

6 letter words containing s, p, o, r, u

  • corpus — A corpus is a large collection of written or spoken texts that is used for language research.
  • porous — full of pores.
  • poseur — a person who attempts to impress others by assuming or affecting a manner, degree of elegance, sentiment, etc., other than his or her true one.
  • proust — Joseph Louis [zhaw-zef lwee] /ʒɔˈzɛf lwi/ (Show IPA), 1754–1826, French chemist.
  • sapour — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste; savor; flavor.

7 letter words containing s, p, o, r, u

  • cuprous — of or containing copper in the monovalent state
  • gropius — Walter [wawl-ter;; German vahl-tuh r] /ˈwɔl tər;; German ˈvɑl tər/ (Show IPA), 1883–1969, German architect, in the U.S. from 1937.
  • hotspurSir Henry ("Hotspur") 1364–1403, English military and rebel leader.
  • leprous — Pathology. affected with leprosy.
  • orpheus — Greek Legend. a poet and musician, a son of Calliope, who followed his dead wife, Eurydice, to the underworld. By charming Hades, he obtained permission to lead her away, provided he did not look back at her until they returned to earth. But at the last moment he looked, and she was lost to him forever.

8 letter words containing s, p, o, r, u

  • acarpous — (of plants) producing no fruit
  • apterous — (of insects) without wings, as silverfish and springtails
  • biparous — producing offspring in pairs
  • bosporus — strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara: c. 20 mi (32 km) long
  • cockspur — a spur on the leg of a cock

9 letter words containing s, p, o, r, u

  • aeropause — the region of the upper atmosphere above which aircraft cannot fly
  • aeropulse — a pulsejet engine
  • amorphous — Something that is amorphous has no clear shape or structure.
  • apivorous — eating bees
  • areopagus — the hill to the northwest of the Acropolis in Athens

10 letter words containing s, p, o, r, u

  • acarpelous — without carpels
  • anatropous — (of a plant ovule) inverted during development by a bending of the stalk (funicle) attaching it to the carpel wall
  • andropause — the period, usually occurring between the ages of 45 and 55, during which a man's testosterone levels may fall, leading to a reduction in vigour and sexual drive
  • apocarpous — (of the ovaries of flowering plants such as the buttercup) consisting of separate carpels
  • australorp — a heavy black breed of domestic fowl

11 letter words containing s, p, o, r, u

  • acarpellous — (of flowers) having no carpels
  • acrocarpous — (of mosses) having clustered upright stems and the reproductive parts borne at the tip of a stem
  • adiaphorous — morally neutral or indifferent
  • agastrophus — a son of Paeon who was slain by Diomedes.
  • all-purpose — You use all-purpose to refer to things that have lots of different uses or can be used in lots of different situations.

12 letter words containing s, p, o, r, u

  • amphicarpous — producing two kinds of fruit that differ either in form or in time of ripening.
  • amphitropous — (of a plant ovule) partially inverted so that the base and the micropyle at the apex are the same distance from the funicle
  • angiocarpous — being or having fruit contained in a vessel such as a shell
  • anthocarpous — resembling or pertaining to an anthocarp
  • appressorium — a flattened hypha of a parasitic fungus that penetrates the host tissues

13 letter words containing s, p, o, r, u

  • amorphousness — lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless: the amorphous clouds.
  • amphitrichous — having a single flagellum at each end.
  • angiospermous — of or relating to an angiosperm; having enclosed seeds.
  • archeptolemus — (in the Iliad) the son of Iphitus who served as a charioteer for Hector.
  • boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right

14 letter words containing s, p, o, r, u

  • africanthropus — a genus of hominids of eastern Africa, assumed from a number of now lost skull fragments to have been a form of archaic Homo : no longer in technical use.
  • autotransplant — autograft.
  • broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
  • businessperson — Businesspeople are people who work in business.
  • capparidaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Capparidaceae (or (Capparaceae), a family of plants, mostly shrubs including the caper, of warm tropical regions

15 letter words containing s, p, o, r, u

  • achlorophyllous — containing no chlorophyll.
  • air-superiority — designating a fighter aircraft built for long patrol capability at high altitudes and supersonic speeds, with air-to-air combat as its principal mission.
  • alexandroupolis — a port in NE Greece, in W Thrace. Pop: 52 720 (2001 est)
  • caprifoliaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caprifoliaceae, a family of N temperate shrubs, small trees, and climbers including honeysuckle, elder, and guelder-rose
  • carpometacarpus — a bone in the wing of a bird that consists of the metacarpal bones and some of the carpal bones fused together

16 letter words containing s, p, o, r, u

  • aerotherapeutics — the treatment of disease by the use of air, esp. by exposing patients to changes in atmospheric pressure
  • anthropomorphous — shaped like a human being
  • australopithecus — an extinct genus of small-brained,large-toothed bipedal hominids that lived in Africa between one and four million years ago.
  • branchiopneustic — breathing by means of gills, as certain aquatic insect larvae.
  • caryophyllaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caryophyllaceae, a family of flowering plants including the pink, carnation, sweet william, and chickweed

17 letter words containing s, p, o, r, u

  • australopithecine — any of various extinct apelike primates of the genus Australopithecus and related genera, remains of which have been discovered in southern and E Africa. Some species are estimated to be over 4.5 million years old
  • boileau-despreaux — Nicolas [nee-kaw-lah] /ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1636–1711, French critic and poet.
  • chemotherapeutics — chemotherapy.
  • contemporaneously — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
  • dipterocarpaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Dipterocarpaceae, a family of trees chiefly native to tropical SE Asia, having two-winged fruits. Many species yield useful timber and resins

18 letter words containing s, p, o, r, u

  • counter-hypothesis — a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts.
  • counterproposition — a proposition made in place of or in opposition to a preceding one.
  • glomerulonephritis — a kidney disease affecting the capillaries of the glomeruli, characterized by albuminuria, edema, and hypertension.
  • grass-of-parnassus — any plant belonging to the genus Parnassia, of the saxifrage family, growing in marshy areas, having broad, smooth leaves and a single, pale flower.
  • houghton-le-spring — a town in N England, in Sunderland unitary authority, Tyne and Wear: coal-mining. Pop: 36 746 (2001)

19 letter words containing s, p, o, r, u

20 letter words containing s, p, o, r, u

  • lymphogranulomatosis — widespread infectious granuloma of the lymphatic system.
  • potassium-bitartrate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 4 H 5 KO 6 , used chiefly as an ingredient in baking powders and in galvanic tinning of metals. Also called potassium bitartrate, potassium acid tartrate. Compare tartar (def 3).
  • pseudoparenchymatous — (in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue, made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
  • semiautobiographical — pertaining to or being a fictionalized account of an author's own life.

21 letter words containing s, p, o, r, u

  • immunoelectrophoresis — a technique for the separation and identification of mixtures of proteins, consisting of electrophoresis followed by immunodiffusion.
  • mucopolysaccharidosis — Any of a group of metabolic disorders caused by the absence or malfunction of lysosomal enzymes needed to break down glycosaminoglycans.
  • pro-industrialization — the large-scale introduction of manufacturing, advanced technical enterprises, and other productive economic activity into an area, society, country, etc.
  • pseudohermaphroditism — an individual having internal reproductive organs of one sex and external sexual characteristics resembling those of the other sex or being ambiguous in nature. Compare hermaphrodite (def 1).
  • psychoneuroimmunology — the study of the effects of psychological factors on the immune system

23 letter words containing s, p, o, r, u

  • alpes-de-haute-provence — a department of SE France in Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur region. Capital: Digne. Pop: 144 508 (2003 est). Area: 6988 sq km (2725 sq miles)

24 letter words containing s, p, o, r, u

26 letter words containing s, p, o, r, u

  • organophosphorus-compounds — Biochemistry. any of a variety of organic compounds that contain phosphorus and often have intense neurotoxic activity: originally developed as nerve gases, now widely used as insecticides and fire retardants.

45 letter words containing s, p, o, r, u

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