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14-letter words containing s, p, u, r, i

  • spanish guitar — acoustic guitar.
  • spectacularity — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
  • spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
  • sphaeristerium — an ancient Roman handball court.
  • spiritualistic — the belief or doctrine that the spirits of the dead, surviving after the mortal life, can and do communicate with the living, especially through a person (a medium) particularly susceptible to their influence.
  • spiritualities — church property or revenue or a Church benefice
  • spiritus asper — rough breathing.
  • spiritus lenis — smooth breathing.
  • splinter group — a small organization that becomes separated from or acts apart from an original larger group or a number of other small groups, with which it would normally be united, as because of disagreement.
  • sporting house — Older Use. a brothel.
  • sports stadium — an arena where sports are played
  • sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
  • spring equinox — the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth and occurring about March 21 (vernal equinox or spring equinox) and September 22 (autumnal equinox)
  • squared splice — square splice.
  • st. louis park — a city in E Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • strepsipterous — belonging or pertaining to the order Strepsiptera, comprising minute insects that are closely related to the beetles, the twisted-winged male being free-living and the wingless female parasitic in various insect hosts.
  • string-pulling — the use of one's influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
  • striped muscle — a type of contractile tissue that is marked by transverse striations; it is concerned with moving skeletal parts to which it is usually attached
  • sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • submicroscopic — too small to be seen through a microscope.
  • subproletariat — the poorest group within the working class
  • subscribership — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
  • subtherapeutic — indicating a dosage, as of a drug or vitamin, less than the amount required for a therapeutic effect.
  • sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
  • sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
  • sulfinyl group — the bivalent group >SO.
  • sulphur spring — a natural hot spring containing sulphur, believed to have curative properties
  • sulphuric acid — Sulphuric acid is a colourless, oily, and very powerful acid.
  • summer pudding — a pudding made by filling a bread-lined basin with a purée of fruit, leaving it to soak, and then turning it out
  • sun-worshipper — someone who worships the sun as a deity
  • sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
  • super-rational — beyond the scope or range of reason; intuitional.
  • superambitious — extremely ambitious, highly ambitious
  • superannuation — the act of superannuating.
  • supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
  • supercelestial — located above the heavens; above the heavens or celestial regions
  • superciliously — haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
  • supercivilized — (of a person or society) highly or excessively civilized
  • supercommittee — A supercommittee is a committee which has members from two or more organizations or political groups.
  • superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
  • supercontinent — a hypothetical protocontinent of the remote geologic past that rifted apart to form the continents of today.
  • supereffective — very or extremely effective
  • superefficient — extremely efficient
  • superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
  • supereminently — in a supereminent manner; to a supereminent degree
  • supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
  • superessential — beyond or above essence; transcending being
  • superexpensive — very or extremely expensive
  • superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
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