11-Letter Words Starting with SP

Spacecraft

Walk by fellow in subtle NASA mission (wordplay)

Spacewalk

Spacewalk

Spadefish

Pasta in long fine strands.

Spallation

Greek dish having spinach and feta cheese in filo pastry

In Greek cooking, a filo pastry stuffed with spinach and feta cheese

Spancel

English word

Spareness

Adjective meaning resembling

See antispasmodic .

Spasmodically.

The common yellow water lily (Nuphar advena). Nuphar advena).

Prohibition-era fixtures

Jazz Age rendezvous.

Roaring Twenties rendezvous

""The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives. as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.""

Spearfish

Spearfish

Initiated, as an undertaking

Took the lead, as in a campaign.

Pioneered, as a movement

Concentrating on one subject

Blend of spices ideal for a particular purpose

Specialise

Specialism

Specialist

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

Narrows the field.

SPECIAL a special person or thing

Neurology, oncology, cardiology, etc.

Speciation

Speciesism

Concrete, as complaints

SPECIFIC a remedy intended for a particular disease

Like an elaborate display, perhaps

Show clears up act for broadcasting

One kind of TV show

Heavenly photo

SPECULAR relating to a speculum

""SPECULATE To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events. as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events.""

One of Hulme's conjectures (wordplay)

Wall Street motivation

Son's embezzlement's a matter of conjecture

Conjecturing - high-risk

Based on conjecture

Disagreement I have about iffy clue involving guesswork

Market manipulators

""-fies , -fying , -fied (intr) to make a speech or speeches""

Speechify

Speedball

Travelling clock (wordplay)

Sonata instrument (wordplay)

It displays the going rate

Labor Day orator, perhaps

A dynamic speaker, for example

Big hit on the lecture circuit

Spelunking

Not one to buy with prudence

Extravagantly spending person

Irresponsible user of money

Spermaceti

Pl. spermagonia also spermogonia (-n - ) A cup-shaped cavity or receptacle in which the spermatia of certain lichens and fungi are produced.

""A small sac connected with the female reproductive organs of insects and many other invertebrates, serving to receive and retain the spermatozoa.""

""Pl. spermatozoa (-z ) The mature fertilizing gamete of a male organism, usually consisting of a round or cylindrical nucleated cell, a short neck, and a thin motile tail. Also called sperm cell , zoosperm .""

SPERMICIDE

Spermicide

Any ground squirrel of the genus Spermophilus; gopher. See Illust. under Gopher. Spermophilus; gopher. See Illust. under Gopher.

Sperrylite

""A red to brownish-red mineral of the garnet group, Mn 3 Al 2 (SiO 4 ) 3 .""

A manganesian variety of garnet.

Sphalerite

Sphenopsid

Spherical

""An instrument for measuring the curvature of spherical surface, as of lenses for telescope, etc.""

""A bacterial cell whose cell wall is absent or deficient, causing it to have a spherical form.""

Spherulite

Of or pertaining to a spherulite; characterized by the presence of spherulites.

""SPHINCTER A muscle which surrounds, and by its contraction tends to close, a natural opening; as, the sphincter of the bladder. as, the sphincter of the bladder.""

""A basic, long-chain, unsaturated amino alcohol, C 18 H 37 NO 2 , found combined with lipids in the brain and in nerve tissue.""

Spicebush

Spiciness

""SPICULATE Covered with, or having, spicules.""

Flowers.

Spikiness

Adjective meaning resembling

Weakly and without courage

The book fell apart

Spininess

Diminutive form

Spinosity

SPINSTER an older unmarried woman

Concerning the occult.

In a sanctified manner.

In an unearthly manner

An ecclesiastical body; a spirituality.

Having or evidencing a refined mind and wit.

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) any of a group of spirally coiled rodlike bacteria that includes the causative agent of syphilis See treponema [from New Latin spīrochaeta; see spiro- 2 , chaeta ]""

SPIROCHETE

Spirochete

Spirometer

An instrument for measuring the volume of air entering and leaving the lungs.

Spiteful

Spittlebug

""A guard in the front part of vehicle, to prevent splashing by a mud or water from the horse's heels; in the United States commonly called dashboard. dashboard.""

Splashdown

""Splashier , splashiest Making or likely to make splashes.""

Splatter

Splayfoot

Spleenwort

Splendid

Splendid.

Pl. splenectomies Surgical removal of the spleen.

When breaking up, maybe slept in before call

Fragmenting

Splotchy

Splutterer

Spitting explosively

Don't invite them!

Wet blankets, figuratively

Wet blankets

Spokeshave

A woman who speaks on behalf of another or others. See Usage Note at man .

A man who speaks on behalf of another or others. See Usage Note at man .

Spoliation

Plural or third person singular

SPONDYL a {vertebra=n}

Spongeware

Money given to support an activity

Backing prison's posh refurbishment

The pledging of money to a fund-raiser

Abandon nasty pie, not properly cooked

Ability to act on impulse

Uninhibited or instinctive behaviour

Unrehearsed, awful panto's no use

Cause of Mr Krook's death

Middle of the resolution

Those making rowdy brawls from fairy lights, perhaps (wordplay)

They often involve switching initial letters, as in the starred answers

Transpositions like "It is kisstomary to cuss the bride"

Production or formation of spores.

Sporogony

""Pl -nia [-nɪə] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) the sporophyte of mosses and liverworts, consisting of a spore-bearing capsule on a short stalk that arises from the parent plant (the gametophyte) sporogonial   adj STADIOMETER (Mathematics & Measurements / Surveying) an instrument that measures the length of curves, dashes, etc., by running a toothed wheel along them [from stadio- , from stadium + -meter ]""

Sporophore

Sporophyll

Sporophyte

""SPOROPHYTE In plants exhibiting alternation of generations, the generation which bears asexual spores; -- opposed to gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.""

Sporozoite

Game shows (wordplay)

TV fare

Sportsman

Female athlete or player

Female athlete

A woman who is active in sports.

SPORULATE

""The act or process of forming spores; spore formation. See Illust. of Bacillus, b. Illust. of Bacillus, b.""

SPORULATE

With all eyes watching

Program to start making bed (wordplay)

Partly make a bed as a table (wordplay)

Cell block (wordplay)

More animated.

Southern prude, dictatorial type, demoting one relatively active

Perils at sea crossing starboard make you more nimble

Flexible point of departure (wordplay)

Jumping-off place (wordplay)

If you're here, you'll take a dive

Springhead

A small storehouse constructed over a spring and used to keep food cool.

Light, bouncy feeling

Springtail

The high seas

Periods of seedings and plantings

Vernal occasions

Clear quaff

Cooler drink

Perrier product

Springwood

Protected from fire by a water system.

Protected from fire by a water system

Sprinkling

Spurgall