9-letter words starting with sp
- spermaria — spermaries
- spermatia — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
- spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
- spermatid — Cell Biology. one of the cells that result from the meiotic divisions of a spermatocyte and mature into spermatozoa.
- spermato- — indicating sperm
- spewiness — the condition of being boggy or poorly drained
- sphacelus — the death of living tissue
- sphaerite — an aluminium phosphate
- sphagnous — pertaining to, abounding in, or consisting of sphagnum.
- sphendone — an ancient Greek headband
- sphenodon — tuatara.
- spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- sphincter — a circular band of voluntary or involuntary muscle that encircles an orifice of the body or one of its hollow organs.
- sphygmoid — resembling the pulse; pulselike.
- spicebush — Also called spice-wood. a yellow-flowered, North American shrub, Lindera benzoin, of the laurel family, whose bark and leaves have a spicy odor.
- spiceless — having no spice
- spicewood — spicebush (def 1).
- spicilege — an anthology or gleaning
- spiculate — having the form of a spicule.
- spiderish — relating to or resembling a spider
- spiderman — a person who erects the steel structure of a building
- spiderweb — to cover with a spider web or fine lines resembling a spider web.
- spiel off — to recite by or as if by rote
- spielberg — Steven, born 1947, U.S. film director.
- spikedace — a scaleless, mottled, olive-brown fish, Meda fulgida, of the Gila River system in New Mexico and Arizona, having two dorsal spines.
- spikefish — a large sea fish
- spikelike — resembling a spike
- spikenard — an aromatic, Indian plant, Nardostachys jatamansi, of the valerian family, believed to be the nard of the ancients.
- spill out — overflow
- spillable — to cause or allow to run or fall from a container, especially accidentally or wastefully: to spill a bag of marbles; to spill milk.
- spillikin — a jackstraw.
- spillover — the act of spilling over.
- spilosite — a form of slate
- spin wave — a magnetic wave propagated through a crystal lattice by a collective excitation of the spin angular momentum of electrons.
- spinacene — a type of vaccine
- spindling — spindle side.
- spindrift — spray swept by a violent wind along the surface of the sea.
- spinebash — to rest; loaf.
- spineless — having no spines or quills.
- spinelike — resembling a spine
- spiniform — like a thorn or spine
- spininess — a spiny quality or condition
- spinnaker — a large, usually triangular sail carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind or when the wind is abaft the beam.
- spinneret — an organ or part by means of which a spider, insect larva, or the like spins a silky thread for its web or cocoon.
- spinosity — the condition of being spinose
- spinozism — the philosophical system of Spinoza, which defines God as the unique substance, as an impersonal deity, and as possessing an infinite number of attributes, of which we know only thought and extension, and an infinite number of modes, each modifying all of the attributes, these attributes and modes being regarded both as proceeding necessarily from the nature of God and as constituents of God.
- spinproof — (of an airplane) designed so as to be highly resistant to a tailspin.
- spinulate — having a spine or spines
- spiny rat — any of various ratlike rodents of the genus Echimys, inhabiting forests of Central and South America, most having bristly fur.
- spiraling — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.