12-letter words starting with sp
- sport jacket — A sport jacket is the same as a sport coat.
- sportability — suitability to be used in or as a sport
- sportfishing — fishing with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.
- sporting dog — one of any of several breeds of usually large dogs especially suited by size and training for hunting by pointing, flushing, and retrieving game and including the pointers, setters, retrievers, and spaniels.
- sporting gun — a gun intended for hunting
- sports drink — a drink containing sugar and salts, etc designed to help replace fluid and energy lost through the physical exertion of sport
- sports shirt — a long- or short-sleeved soft shirt for informal wear by men, having a squared-off shirttail that may be left outside the trousers, usually worn without a tie.
- sportscaster — A sportscaster is a radio or television broadcaster who describes or comments on sporting events.
- sportsperson — athlete
- sportswriter — a journalist who reports on sports and sporting events.
- spot remover — a concentrated cleaning fluid used to remove small areas of staining, such as on a carpet
- spot welding — fusing metal
- spotlighting — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
- spotsylvania — a village in NE Virginia: the scene of Civil War battles between the armies of Grant and Lee, May 8–21, 1864.
- spotted cavy — paca.
- spotted deer — axis deer.
- spotted dick — a steamed or boiled suet pudding containing dried fruit
- spotted tail — (Sinte-galeshka) 1833?–81, Brulé Sioux leader.
- spotted wilt — a viral disease of plants, characterized by wilting and by brown, sunken spots and streaks on the stems and leaves.
- sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
- spray millet — the seeds of millet left on the spike and sold in pet shops for cage birds.
- spread eagle — the representation of an eagle with outstretched wings, used as an emblem of the US
- spread-eagle — having or suggesting the form of a spread eagle.
- spreadeagled — Someone who is spreadeagled is lying with their arms and legs spread out.
- sprechgesang — a vocal style intermediate between speech and singing but without exact pitch intonation.
- sprechstimme — sprechgesang.
- spree killer — a person who kills more than one victim in more than one location in a very short period of time.
- sprightfully — in a sprightful manner
- spring break — a vacation from school or college during the spring term, lasting about a week.
- spring catch — a catch for an interior or cabinet door that has a bolt operated by a spring.
- spring fever — a listless, lazy, or restless feeling commonly associated with the beginning of spring.
- spring onion — scallion
- spring vetch — any of several mostly climbing plants belonging to the genus Vicia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves ending in tendrils and bearing pealike flowers, especially V. sativa (spring vetch) cultivated for forage and soil improvement.
- spring water — water from natural underground source
- spring-clean — to subject (a place) to a spring-cleaning.
- springkeeper — a salamander
- spud-bashing — the task of peeling potatoes, given as a punishment
- spun-bonding — a process for forming nonwoven fabrics, usually of limited durability, by bonding continuous-filament synthetic fibers immediately after extrusion.
- spur gearing — a system of spur gears.
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner