9-letter words containing u, p, s
- scopulate — broom-shaped; brushlike.
- scrape up — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
- scrapegut — a fiddle player
- scripture — Often, Scriptures. Also called Holy Scripture, Holy Scriptures. the sacred writings of the Old or New Testaments or both together.
- sculpture — the art of carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions, as in relief, intaglio, or in the round.
- scuppered — Military. to overwhelm; surprise and destroy, disable, or massacre.
- sea purse — the horny egg case of certain rays and sharks.
- semigroup — an algebraic system closed under an associative binary operation.
- semipious — quite pious; somewhat pious
- semipious — quite pious; somewhat pious
- semiplume — a semiplume feather
- separatum — a reprint of an article separately from the magazine, journal, or book in which it was originally published; an offprint
- septarium — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- septuplet — any group or combination of seven.
- sepulcher — a tomb, grave, or burial place.
- sepulchre — to place in a sepulcher; bury.
- sepulture — the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.
- serogroup — a group of bacteria with a common antigen
- serpukhov — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
- serpulite — a fossilized calcareous tube of a serpula
- settle up — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
- sextuplet — a group or combination of six things.
- sextuplex — sixfold; sextuple.
- sharp-cut — cut so as to have a sharp edge: a tool with a sharp-cut blade.
- sheep-run — a large property for raising sheep
- shippound — a Baltic measure of weight roughly equivalent to 300-400 pounds
- shunpiker — a driver who takes a side road to avoid paying a turnpike toll
- siphuncle — (in a nautilus) the connecting tube that passes from the end of the body through all of the septa to the innermost chamber.
- sippy cup — a spill-resistant drinking cup for toddlers, having a tight lid with a spout.
- skull cap — A skull cap is a small close-fitting cap.
- skull-cap — a small, brimless close-fitting cap, often made of silk or velvet, worn on the crown of the head, as for religious functions.
- sleep out — live-out.
- sleep-out — live-out.
- sleepsuit — a baby's sleeping garment
- soften up — make softer
- soundpost — a small post, usually of pine, on guitars, violins, etc, that joins the front surface to the back, helps to support the bridge, and allows the whole body of the instrument to vibrate
- soup bowl — a container in which soup is served
- souped up — a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.
- souped-up — a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.
- soupspoon — a large spoon, commonly having a rounded bowl, with which to eat soup.
- southport — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England: resort.
- space out — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- spacesuit — a sealed and pressurized suit designed to allow the wearer to leave a pressurized cabin in outer space or at extremely high altitudes within the atmosphere.
- spar buoy — a buoy resembling a vertical log
- sparkplug — to lead, inspire, or animate something or someone.
- spartacus — died 71 b.c, Thracian slave, gladiator, and insurrectionist.
- spatulate — shaped like a spatula; rounded more or less like a spoon.
- spazz out — an awkward or clumsy person.
- speak out — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- spear gun — a device for shooting a barbed missile under water, usually by means of gas under pressure, a strong rubber band, or a powerful spring.