9-letter words containing s, p, o, t, e
- soapstone — a massive variety of talc with a soapy or greasy feel, used for hearths, washtubs, tabletops, carved ornaments, etc.
- soften up — make softer
- soleplate — a plate upon which studding is erected.
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- soopstake — sweeping up all stakes
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- space out — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.
- spaceshot — a launch of a space vehicle beyond the earth's atmosphere.
- spadefoot — spadefoot toad.
- speak out — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- spearwort — any of several buttercups having lance-shaped leaves and small flowers, as Ranunculus ambigens, of the eastern U.S., growing in mud.
- spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- speedboat — a motorboat designed for high speeds.
- spell out — to name, write, or otherwise give the letters, in order, of (a word, syllable, etc.): Did I spell your name right?
- spermato- — indicating sperm
- spilosite — a form of slate
- splotches — a large, irregular spot; blot; stain; blotch.
- sporocyte — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- sportless — without any sport
- sportsmen — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- sportster — a sports car.
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- spot fine — penalty paid immediately
- spot line — a rope or wire hung from a specific place on the gridiron for flying a piece of scenery that could not be flied by the existing battens.
- spot news — the latest news, reported immediately.
- spot rate — trading: immediate price
- spot test — an informal test run without elaborate preparation in order to obtain an immediate sample response.
- spot-weld — to weld (two pieces of metal) together in a small area or spot by the application of heat and pressure.
- spottable — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- spoutless — having no spout
- st-tropez — commune and seaside resort in SE France, on the Mediterranean: pop. 5,000
- stenopaic — (of an optic device) having a narrow opening devised to improve eyesight by limiting obscurations
- stenopeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
- stenotype — a keyboard machine resembling a typewriter, used in a system of phonetic shorthand.
- stenotypy — shorthand in which alphabetic letters or types are used to produce shortened forms of words or groups of words.
- step down — serving to reduce or decrease voltage: a step-down transformer.
- step into — enter
- step-down — serving to reduce or decrease voltage: a step-down transformer.
- stepstool — a low set of hinged steps, often folding into or under a stool, used typically in a kitchen for reaching high shelves.
- sternport — an opening or window in the stern of ship
- sternpost — an upright member rising from the after end of a keel; a rudderpost or propeller post.
- stew pond — a fishpond or fishtank
- stockpile — a supply of material, as a pile of gravel in road maintenance.
- stonecrop — any plant of the genus Sedum, especially a mosslike herb, S. acre, having small, fleshy leaves and yellow flowers, frequently growing on rocks and walls.
- stop bead — a strip of molding along the inside of a window frame for holding a sliding sash.
- stop over — stay overnight on a journey
- stop time — a passage where the beat stops temporarily