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14-letter words containing s, p, u, t, m

  • spark spectrum — a spectrum formed from the light produced by an electric spark, characteristic of the gas or vapor through which the spark passes.
  • spectator pump — a woman's spectator shoe, closed at the front and back, usually having a medium or medium-high heel.
  • speculum metal — any of several bronze alloys with a high tin content, often containing other materials, as silver, brass, lead, zinc, or arsenic, used for making mirrors and reflectors.
  • spermatogenous — producing spermatozoa.
  • spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
  • sphaeristerium — an ancient Roman handball court.
  • sports stadium — an arena where sports are played
  • start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
  • stream capture — piracy (def 3).
  • 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
  • stubble-jumper — a prairie grain farmer
  • studio complex — a building containing a room or rooms used to record television or radio programmes, make films, music, etc
  • sub-postmaster — (in Britain) a man who runs a sub-post office
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
  • sulphacetamide — a topical antibiotic of the sulphonamide group, used to treat eye infections, as well as skin infections including acne
  • sulphonmethane — a colourless crystalline compound used medicinally as a hypnotic. Formula: C7H16O4S2
  • sulphur-bottom — blue whale.
  • superambitious — extremely ambitious, highly ambitious
  • supercommittee — A supercommittee is a committee which has members from two or more organizations or political groups.
  • supereminently — in a supereminent manner; to a supereminent degree
  • superimportant — extremely important
  • superincumbent — lying or resting on something else.
  • superstimulate — to stimulate excessively
  • supersymmetric — pertaining to supersymmetry
  • supplementally — supplementary.
  • support system — people who provide support: a family support system to help a troubled youth.
  • suprasegmental — above, beyond, or in addition to a segment.
  • supreme soviet — the bicameral legislature, comprising the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of the Nationalities; officially the highest organ of state power
  • the game is up — If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed.
  • the last trump — the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment
  • thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
  • topsy-turvydom — a state of affairs or a region in which everything is topsy-turvy.
  • trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
  • transpulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
  • triple measure — time or rhythm characterized by three beats to the measure with an accent on the first beat.
  • trumpeter swan — a large, pure-white, wild swan, Cygnus buccinator, of North America, having a sonorous cry: once near extinction, the species is now recovering.
  • turkish empire — Ottoman Empire
  • turn up trumps — (of a person) to bring about a happy or successful conclusion (to an event, problem, etc), esp unexpectedly
  • unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
  • unpresumptuous — not presumptuous; modest
  • unsympathizing — not sympathizing; not offering sympathy; unsympathetic
  • victim support — Victim support is the giving of help and advice to people who are victims of crime.
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