11-letter words containing sp
- spontaneous — coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: a spontaneous burst of applause.
- spoon bread — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a baked dish made with cornmeal, milk, eggs, and shortening, served as an accompaniment to meat.
- sporadicity — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- spore fruit — a spore-bearing structure, as an ascoscarp; sporocarp.
- spore print — the pattern produced by placing the cap of a mushroom on a piece of paper and allowing the spores to fall
- sporiferous — bearing spores.
- sporocystic — of or like a sporocyst
- sporogenous — of or relating to spores or spore production.
- sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.
- sport shirt — a long- or short-sleeved soft shirt for informal wear by men, having a squared-off shirttail that may be left outside the trousers, usually worn without a tie.
- sports desk — the editorial section of a newspaper, television or radio programme, etc that deals with sports news
- sports hall — venue for physical activities
- sports page — newspaper page carrying sports results
- sports shop — a shop where sports clothes and equipment are sold
- sportswoman — a woman who engages in sports.
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- spot fixing — the act of deliberately engineering an outcome within a sporting contest without attempting to alter the outcome of the contest itself
- spot height — the elevation of a certain point.
- spot market — a market in which commodities, as grain, gold, or crude oil, are dealt in for cash and immediate delivery (distinguished from futures market).
- spot strike — a labor strike by a local branch of a union.
- spot survey — a survey taken immediately and at random
- spotted gum — an Australian eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus maculata
- spotted owl — a dark-brown owl (Strix occidentalis, family Strigidae) with scattered white spots and dark eyes, sometimes seen in the forests of W North America: it is an endangered species
- spotted ray — any of various species of ray with irregular markings on the back
- spottedness — the state, condition or quality of being spotted
- spouted bed — A spouted bed is a bed in which the particles are quite big, and contact only happens in an upward movement of fluid in the middle of the bed.
- spray paint — paint in aerosol form
- spray skirt — a piece of waterproof material that fits around the paddler and opening of a kayak to keep water out of the craft.
- spray-paint — to cover, mark, draw, or write with spray paint.
- spreadingly — in a spreading manner
- spreadsheet — Accounting. a worksheet that is arranged in the manner of a mathematical matrix and contains a multicolumn analysis of related entries for easy reference on a single sheet.
- spree-river — a river in E Germany, flowing N through Berlin to the Havel River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- sprezzatura — effortlessness or ease, esp. in art or literature; careless grace; nonchalance
- sprightless — without any spirit or liveliness
- spring lamb — a lamb born in the late winter or early spring and sold for slaughter before July 1.
- spring line — warp (def 16).
- spring lock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
- spring rate — The spring rate is a measurement of the amount of force needed to compress a spring a particular distance.
- spring roll — an egg roll.
- spring snow — corn snow.
- spring tide — the large rise and fall of the tide at or soon after the new or the full moon.
- springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- springfield — a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,400 sq. mi. (146,075 sq. km). Capital: Springfield. Abbreviation: IL (for use with zip code), Ill.
- springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
- springiness — characterized by spring or elasticity; flexible; resilient: He walks with a springy step.
- springsteen — Bruce. born 1949, US rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His albums include Born to Run (1975), Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978), Born in the USA (1984), The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995), The Rising (2002), Magic (2007), and Wrecking Ball (2012)
- springville — a town in central Utah.
- springwater — water from a spring
- sprinklered — having or protected by a sprinkler system.