14-letter words containing sp
- field larkspur — a European plant, Consolida regalis, of the buttercup family, having sparse clusters of blue or violet-colored flowers and smooth fruit.
- fingerspelling — the communication in sign language of a word or other expression by rendering its written form letter by letter in a manual alphabet.
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- function space — a linear space, the elements of which are functions.
- german speaker — a person who speaks German
- great red spot — a large, usually reddish gaseous vortex on the surface of Jupiter, about 14,000 by 30,000 km, that drifts about slowly as the planet rotates and has been observed for several hundred years.
- hair-splitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
- heterospecific — belonging to a different species or group
- homotransplant — allograft.
- hospitableness — The quality of being hospitable.
- hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
- hospital drama — a TV programme or series based on events in a hospital
- hospital light — hopper casement.
- hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
- hospital train — a military train equipped to transport wounded troops to a hospital.
- hot gospelling — aggressive evangelizing of religious belief
- hypophosphoric — of or derived from hypophosphoric acid.
- inauspiciously — not auspicious; boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable.
- indispensables — Plural form of indispensable.
- indisposedness — The condition or quality of being indisposed.
- indispositions — Plural form of indisposition.
- inspectability — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
- inspection pit — a hole in the floor of a garage, etc from which the underside of a vehicle can be examined and serviced
- inspirationism — a belief in some form of divine inspiration, esp the belief that Christian Scripture was divinely inspired
- inspirationist — an adherent of inspirationism
- introspectible — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
- introspections — Plural form of introspection.
- irrespectively — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
- irresponsibles — Plural form of irresponsible.
- joint passport — a single passport shared by two or more people, such as a passport shared by a parent and child
- jumping spider — any of several small, hairy spiders, of the family Salticidae, that stalk and jump upon their prey instead of snaring it in a web.
- keynote speech — opening address at a conference
- kindred spirit — likeminded person
- kit inspection — inspection of soldiers' kit by a superior officer, to make sure it is all clean, working, and in a good state
- l-asparaginase — an enzyme that destroys asparagine, a nonessential amino acid needed as a nutrient by rapidly growing cells: used in treating leukemia
- leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
- lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
- lord spiritual — a bishop or archbishop belonging to the House of Lords.
- macrosporangia — Plural form of macrosporangium.
- magnetospheres — Plural form of magnetosphere.
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
- manganese spar — Mineralogy. rhodonite or rhodochrosite.
- megasporangium — a sporangium containing megaspores.
- megasporophyll — a sporophyll producing megasporangia only.
- melanospermous — having dark spores, as certain seaweeds.
- metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
- metaphosphates — Plural form of metaphosphate.
- metaphosphoric — applied to an acid (HPO3) containing a molecule less of water than orthophosphoric acid
- microspherical — relating to or designating a microsphere
- microsporangia — Plural form of microsporangium.