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11-letter words containing sp

  • respectably — worthy of respect or esteem; estimable; worthy: a respectable citizen.
  • respectless — disrespectful, not offering respect, lacking respect
  • respiration — the act of respiring; inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing.
  • respiratory — pertaining to or serving for respiration: respiratory disease.
  • resplendent — shining brilliantly; gleaming; splendid: troops resplendent in white uniforms; resplendent virtues.
  • respondence — the act of responding; response: respondence to a stimulus.
  • responsible — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
  • responsibly — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
  • responsions — the first of three examinations which were required for a degree at the University of Oxford prior to 1960
  • resuspended — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
  • retinispora — any member of the genus Retinispora, of conifers which grow in the east of Asia and in the east and west of North America
  • rhizosphere — the area of soil that surrounds the roots of a plant and is altered by the plant's root growth, nutrients, respiration, etc.
  • riesz space — a topological space in which sets containing one point are closed.
  • robespierre — Maximilien François Marie Isidore de [mak-see-mee-lyan frahn-swa ma-ree ee-zee-dawr duh] /mak si miˈlyɛ̃ frɑ̃ˈswa maˈri i ziˈdɔr də/ (Show IPA), 1758–94, French lawyer and revolutionary leader.
  • ruby spinel — a deep red, transparent variety of spinel, used as a gem.
  • salespeople — a person who sells goods, services, etc.
  • salesperson — a person who sells goods, services, etc.
  • scent spray — perfume that comes in an aerosol bottle
  • self-speech — the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one's thoughts and emotions by speech sounds and gesture: Losing her speech made her feel isolated from humanity.
  • semi-sphere — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.
  • semispheric — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.
  • shakespeare — William ("the Bard"; "the Bard of Avon") 1564–1616, English poet and dramatist.
  • shelf space — amount of room on shelves
  • shinsplints — inflammation of the muscles around the shinbone caused by strenuous exercise
  • so to speak — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
  • social wasp — any of several wasps, as the hornets or yellowjackets, that live together in a community.
  • soft-spoken — (of persons) speaking with a soft or gentle voice; mild.
  • space cadet — a person who appears to be in his or her own world or out of touch with reality.
  • space group — a set of symmetry elements that brings a periodic arrangement of points on a Bravais space lattice to its original position.
  • space opera — a television or radio drama or motion picture that is a science-fiction adventure story.
  • space probe — Aerospace. an unmanned spacecraft designed to explore the solar system and transmit data back to earth.
  • space stage — a stage set, often limited to an arrangement of ramps and platforms, in which actors and set pieces are spotlighted against the bare background of a dark or black cyclorama.
  • spacefaring — space travel
  • spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
  • spacewalker — a person who manoeuvres in space while outside but attached to a spacecraft
  • spaghettini — pasta in the form of long thin strings
  • spallanzani — Lazzaro [lahd-dzah-raw] /ˈlɑd dzɑ rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1729–99, Italian biologist.
  • spanakopita — a baked dish consisting of spinach, feta cheese, eggs, and scallions enclosed in layers of phyllo.
  • spanish fir — a species of fir native to S Spain and N Morocco, Abies pinsapo
  • spanish fly — Also called cantharides. a preparation of powdered blister beetles, especially the Spanish fly, used medicinally as a counterirritant, diuretic, and aphrodisiac.
  • sparagmatic — denoting a type of Precambrian rock found in Scandinavia
  • spare wheel — A spare wheel is a wheel with a tyre on it that you keep in your car in case you get a flat tyre and need to replace one of your wheels.
  • sparklessly — in a sparkless manner
  • sparklingly — in a sparkling manner
  • sparrowfart — the very early morning
  • sparrowhawk — a small, short-winged European hawk, Accipiter nisus, that preys on smaller birds.
  • spartanburg — a city in NW South Carolina.
  • spasmolysis — the relaxation or relief of muscle spasm.
  • spasmolytic — of or noting spasmolysis.
  • spastically — Pathology. pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by spasm, especially tonic spasm.
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