11-letter words containing spe
- hesperornis — a toothed aquatic bird of the extinct genus Hesperornis, fossils of which are found in rocks of Cretaceous age in Kansas, having the rear legs modified for swimming and reaching a length of more than 4 feet (1.2 meters).
- in prospect — expected, predicted
- inspectable — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
- inspections — Plural form of inspection.
- intersperse — to scatter here and there or place at intervals among other things: to intersperse flowers among shrubs.
- isospectral — (mathematics) Having the same spectrum.
- jasperizing — Present participle of jasperize.
- last gospel — in the order of service for the Mass, the final reading of a Gospel lesson.
- linesperson — (sports) A linesman or lineswoman.
- loudspeaker — any of various devices, usually electronic, by which speech, music, etc., can be intensified and made audible throughout a room, hall, or the like.
- magic spell — incantation or curse
- marksperson — A marksman or markswoman.
- mellowspeak — bland or vague language associated with New Age philosophy
- menispermum — any of several tropical climbing plants of the genus Menispermum of the family Menispermaceae
- misperceive — to understand or perceive incorrectly; misunderstand.
- mispersuade — to persuade wrongly
- misspeaking — (obsolete) Speaking ill; defamation, slander.
- misspelling — the act of spelling incorrectly: Note his misspelling of that word.
- misspending — Present participle of misspend.
- newspersons — Plural form of newsperson.
- non-suspect — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- nonspeaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
- nonspecific — Not detailed or exact; general.
- nonspecular — that reflects light diffusely and evenly over the hemisphere surrounding the reflective surface; diffuse
- outspeeding — Present participle of outspeed.
- overspender — someone who overspends
- panspermist — someone who advocates panspermia
- perspective — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- phase speed — the speed at which the phase of a wave is propagated, the product of the frequency times the wavelength. This is the quantity that is determined by methods using interference. In a dispersive medium it differs from the group speed
- polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
- prospecting — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
- prospection — anticipation
- prospective — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- reinspected — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
- respectable — worthy of respect or esteem; estimable; worthy: a respectable citizen.
- respectably — worthy of respect or esteem; estimable; worthy: a respectable citizen.
- respectless — disrespectful, not offering respect, lacking respect
- resuspended — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
- salespeople — a person who sells goods, services, etc.
- salesperson — a person who sells goods, services, etc.
- 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.
- shakespeare — William ("the Bard"; "the Bard of Avon") 1564–1616, English poet and dramatist.
- so to speak — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- speakeasies — a saloon or nightclub selling alcoholic beverages illegally, especially during Prohibition.
- speakership — a person who speaks.
- spear grass — any of various grasses, as a meadow grass or a bent grass, having lance-shaped leaves or floral spikes.
- spearheaded — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
- spec cint92 — (benchmark) A benchmark suite from SPEC, which contains six benchmarks in C performing integer computations. They can be used to estimate the performance of CPU, memory system, and compiler code generation. The individual programs are Logic Design (2x), Interpreter, Data Compression, Spreadsheet. The approximate size of the suite is 85500 lines of source code without comments. The benchmark suite can be used either for speed measurement, resulting in SPEC ratios, or for throughput measurement, resulting in SPEC rates
- special act — a legislative act that applies only to specific persons or to a specific area.
- specialised — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.