9-letter words containing s, t, e, p, l
- splenetic — of the spleen; splenic.
- splenitis — inflammation of the spleen
- splintery — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- split end — an offensive end who lines up some distance outside the formation on the line of scrimmage as a pass receiver.
- split pea — a dried green pea, split and used especially for soup.
- split-new — brand-new
- splitters — a person or thing that splits.
- splotches — a large, irregular spot; blot; stain; blotch.
- spluttery — tending to splutter: spluttery fire sparks.
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- sportless — without any sport
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- 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-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
- springlet — a small spring of water.
- 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.
- steel pan — steel drum.
- steepling — an ornamental construction, usually ending in a spire, erected on a roof or tower of a church, public building, etc.
- stepchild — a child of one's spouse by a previous marriage.
- stepstool — a low set of hinged steps, often folding into or under a stool, used typically in a kitchen for reaching high shelves.
- stipulate — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- stockpile — a supply of material, as a pile of gravel in road maintenance.
- stoppable — capable of being stopped.
- strapless — without a strap or straps.
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
- stylopize — (of a stylops) to parasitize (a host)
- sulphuret — to treat or combine with sulphur
- supersalt — a salt with an excess of acid over base
- supertalk — Silicon Beach Software. A superset of HyperTalk used in SuperCard.
- sylleptic — the use of a word or expression to perform two syntactic functions, especially to modify two or more words of which at least one does not agree in number, case, or gender, as the use of are in Neither he nor we are willing.
- sympetaly — the condition of fused petals
- teleplasm — a hypothetical emanation from the body of a medium that serves as the means for telekinesis.
- telescope — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- telescopy — the use of the telescope.
- 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.
- temps lie — a series of systematized and connected arm and leg movements done for practice.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- the polls — the place where people vote during an election
- tidepools — tidal pool.
- tie clasp — an ornamental metal clasp for securing the two ends of a necktie to a shirt front.
- titleship — lawful claim to title, especially of property.
- tonle sap — a lake in W Cambodia, draining into the Mekong River.
- top shelf — of highest quality
- top-shell — any marine gastropod mollusc of the mainly tropical Old World family Trochidae, having a typically brightly coloured top-shaped or conical shell
- topcastle — a large fighting top used in medieval ships.
- typestyle — face (defs 19b, c).
- up-itself — pretentious or pompous