9-letter words containing spa
- raspatory — a surgical instrument for abrading; surgeon's rasp
- space age — period post-1950s onwards
- space bar — a horizontal bar on a typewriter keyboard that is depressed in order to resume typing one space to the right.
- space law — the projected law that would govern the use of outer space by various nations based on certain treaties.
- space man — space writer.
- space out — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- space-age — pertaining to or characteristic of the Space Age.
- space-bar — a horizontal bar on a typewriter keyboard that is depressed in order to resume typing one space to the right.
- spaceband — a device on a linecaster for evening up the spaces between words
- spaceless — having no limits or dimensions in space; limitless; unbounded.
- spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.
- spaceship — spacecraft.
- spaceshot — a launch of a space vehicle beyond the earth's atmosphere.
- 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.
- spacewalk — a task or mission performed by an astronaut outside a spacecraft in space.
- spaceward — going into space
- spacially — spatial.
- spaciness — the state of being spacey
- spadassin — a swordsman
- spadefish — a deep-bodied marine fish of the genus Chaetodipterus, especially C. faber, of Atlantic coastal waters of North America.
- spadefoot — spadefoot toad.
- spadelike — resembling a spade
- spadework — preliminary or initial work, such as the gathering of data, on which further activity is to be based.
- spaghetti — a white, starchy pasta of Italian origin that is made in the form of long strings, boiled, and served with any of a variety of meat, tomato, or other sauces.
- spagyrist — an alchemist
- span roof — a roof having two slopes of equal breadth and pitch meeting at a common ridge.
- spanaemia — a lack of red corpuscles in blood
- spanaemic — relating to a lack of red corpuscles in blood
- spanglish — Spanish spoken with a large admixture of English, especially American, words and expressions.
- spar buoy — a buoy resembling a vertical log
- spar deck — the upper deck of a vessel, extending from stem to stern.
- sparagmos — the tearing to pieces of a live victim, as a bull or a calf, by a band of bacchantes in a Dionysian orgy.
- sparassis — cauliflower fungus.
- spareable — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
- spareless — merciless
- spareness — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
- spareribs — a cut of meat from the rib section, especially of pork or beef, with some meat adhering to the bones.
- sparingly — economical (often followed by in or of).
- spark gap — a space between two electrodes, across which a discharge of electricity may take place.
- spark off — cause, provoke
- sparkless — having no spark
- sparkling — to issue in or as if in little sparks, as fire or light: The candlelight sparkled in the crystal.
- sparkover — spark1 (def 2).
- sparkplug — to lead, inspire, or animate something or someone.
- sparsedly — in a scattered manner
- spartacus — died 71 b.c, Thracian slave, gladiator, and insurrectionist.
- spartanic — (usually lowercase) suggestive of the ancient Spartans; sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere.
- sparteine — a bitter, poisonous, liquid alkaloid obtained from certain species of broom, especially Cytisus scoparius, used in medicine to stimulate the heart and also the uterine muscles in childbirth.
- sparterie — things made from esparto
- spartiate — a member of the ruling class of ancient Laconia; a Spartan citizen. Compare Helot (def 1), Perioeci.