11-letter words containing sp
- blastospore — a spore formed by budding, as in certain fungi
- blogosphere — In computer technology, the blogosphere or the blogsphere is all the weblogs on the Internet, considered collectively.
- blood sport — Blood sports are sports such as hunting in which animals are killed.
- bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
- blue spirea — a grayish, hairy, eastern Asian shrub, Caryopteris incana, of the verbena family, having clusters of showy, blue or bluish-purple flowers.
- blue spruce — a spruce tree, Picea pungens glauca, native to the Rocky Mountains of North America, having blue-green needle-like leaves
- bone spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
- bony spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by a bony growth, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
- box spanner — a spanner consisting of a steel cylinder with a hexagonal end that fits over a nut: used esp to turn nuts in positions that are recessed or difficult of access
- caddy spoon — a small spoon used in taking tea from a storage caddy.
- cardiospasm — failure of the muscle fibers at the lower end of the esophagus to relax, resulting in swallowing difficulty and regurgitation.
- carpospores — Plural form of carpospore.
- caspian sea — a salt lake between SE Europe and Asia: the largest inland sea in the world; fed mainly by the River Volga. Area: 394 299 sq km (152 239 sq miles)
- cenospecies — a species related to another by the ability to interbreed
- checkerspot — any of several butterflies of the genus Melitaea, having black wings with yellowish-brown, checkerlike markings.
- chemosphere — an atmospheric zone about 19 to 80 km (11.8 to 49.7 mi) above the earth's surface, in which photochemical reactions take place
- chesspieces — Plural form of chesspiece.
- chessplayer — a player of chess
- ciclosporin — a drug extracted from a fungus and used after organ transplantation to suppress the body's immune mechanisms, and so prevent rejection of an organ
- circumspect — If you are circumspect, you are cautious in what you do and say and do not take risks.
- clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
- clock speed — clock rate
- clothespins — Plural form of clothespin.
- clothespole — a pole for supporting a clothesline
- coil spring — a helical spring formed from wire
- common lisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp defined by a consortium of companies brought together in 1981 by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Companies included Symbolics, Lisp Machines, Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, Bell Labs., Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Lawrence Livermore Labs., Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, Yale, MIT and USC Berkeley. Common Lisp is lexically scoped by default but can be dynamically scoped. Common Lisp is a large and complex language, fairly close to a superset of MacLisp. It features lexical binding, data structures using defstruct and setf, closures, multiple values, types using declare and a variety of numerical types. Function calls allow "&optional", keyword and "&rest" arguments. Generic sequence can either be a list or an array. It provides formatted printing using escape characters. Common LISP now includes CLOS, an extended LOOP macro, condition system, pretty printing and logical pathnames. Implementations include AKCL, CCL, CLiCC, CLISP, CLX, CMU Common Lisp, DCL, KCL, MCL and WCL. Mailing list: <[email protected]>.
- con spirito — (to be performed) in a spirited or lively manner (also in the phrases allegro con spirito, presto con spirito)
- conspecific — (of animals or plants) belonging to the same species
- conspicious — Misspelling of conspicuous.
- conspicuity — conspicuousness
- conspicuous — If someone or something is conspicuous, people can see or notice them very easily.
- conspirancy — Misspelling of conspiracy.
- conspirator — A conspirator is a person who joins a conspiracy.
- copper spot — a disease of grasses characterized by coppery or orange spore masses covering the blades, caused by a fungus, Gloeocercospora sorghi.
- corresponds — Have a close similarity; match or agree almost exactly.
- cosmosphere — a device consisting of a glass globe on which the stars are shown, and within which is another globe representing the Earth, that shows the position of the Earth, at any given time, in relation to the stars
- cosponsored — Simple past tense and past participle of cosponsor.
- cotransport — the transport of one solute across a membrane from a region of low concentration of another solute to a region of high concentration of that solute
- cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
- crab spider — any of a family (Thomisidae) of spiders that move sideways like crabs
- crawl space — A crawl space is a narrow space under the roof or floor of a building that provides access to the wiring or plumbing.
- crime spree — a series of crimes committed in quick succession
- crispbreads — Plural form of crispbread.
- crosspieces — Plural form of crosspiece.
- cuckoo spit — a white frothy mass on the stems and leaves of many plants, produced by froghopper larvae (cuckoo spit insects), which feed on the plant juices
- cuckoo wasp — any of several small, metallic-green or -blue wasps of the family Chrysididae that deposit their eggs in nests of other wasps.
- cuckoo-spit — Also called frog spit. a frothy secretion found on plants, exuded by the young of certain insects, as the froghoppers, and serving as a protective covering.
- cued speech — a method of communication in which a speaker uses a system of manual cues to aid a lipreader by clarifying potentially ambiguous mouth movements with hand gestures.
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- cyclosporin — a substance, synthesized by certain soil fungi, that suppresses the immune response by disabling helper T cells, used to minimize rejection of foreign tissue transplants.