11-letter words starting with sp
- spray paint — paint in aerosol form
- spray skirt — a piece of waterproof material that fits around the paddler and opening of a kayak to keep water out of the craft.
- spray-paint — to cover, mark, draw, or write with spray paint.
- spreadingly — in a spreading manner
- spreadsheet — Accounting. a worksheet that is arranged in the manner of a mathematical matrix and contains a multicolumn analysis of related entries for easy reference on a single sheet.
- spree-river — a river in E Germany, flowing N through Berlin to the Havel River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- sprezzatura — effortlessness or ease, esp. in art or literature; careless grace; nonchalance
- sprightless — without any spirit or liveliness
- spring lamb — a lamb born in the late winter or early spring and sold for slaughter before July 1.
- spring line — warp (def 16).
- spring lock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
- spring rate — The spring rate is a measurement of the amount of force needed to compress a spring a particular distance.
- spring roll — an egg roll.
- spring snow — corn snow.
- spring tide — the large rise and fall of the tide at or soon after the new or the full moon.
- springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- springfield — a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,400 sq. mi. (146,075 sq. km). Capital: Springfield. Abbreviation: IL (for use with zip code), Ill.
- springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
- springiness — characterized by spring or elasticity; flexible; resilient: He walks with a springy step.
- springsteen — Bruce. born 1949, US rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His albums include Born to Run (1975), Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978), Born in the USA (1984), The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995), The Rising (2002), Magic (2007), and Wrecking Ball (2012)
- springville — a town in central Utah.
- springwater — water from a spring
- sprinklered — having or protected by a sprinkler system.
- sprite crab — ghost crab.
- spruce beer — a fermented beverage made with spruce leaves and twigs, or an extract from them.
- spruce pine — a tall coniferous tree, Pinus glabra, of the southeastern U.S., having smooth, gray bark and needles in bundles of two.
- spud island — Prince Edward Island.
- spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
- spy-hopping — a vertical half-rise out of the water performed by a whale in order to view the surroundings. a springing bounce in tall grasses performed by certain land mammals, as foxes and wolves, to view the surroundings.