9-letter words starting with SP
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter SP. This section showcases how SP at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with SP, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| spiritual | 11 | a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States | - |
| spreading | 13 | process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space | - |
| specially | 16 | to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common | an especially (or specially) cautious approach to the danger |
| specialty | 16 | an asset of special worth or utility | - |
| spaghetti | 15 | pasta in the form of long strings | - |
| splitting | 12 | resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree | - |
| spaceship | 18 | a spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space (especially in science fiction) | - |
| spectacle | 15 | a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself | - |
| spotlight | 15 | a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer | - |
| sparkling | 16 | used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide | sparkling wines |
| splashing | 15 | the act of scattering water about haphazardly | - |
| spiderman | 14 | - | - |
| spokesman | 17 | a male spokesperson | - |
| speculate | 13 | invest at a risk | - |
| spectator | 13 | a woman's pump with medium heel; usually in contrasting colors for toe and heel | - |
| spineless | 11 | weak in willpower, courage or vitality | - |
| sportsman | 13 | someone who engages in sports | - |
| sphincter | 16 | a ring of muscle that contracts to close an opening | - |
| sprinkles | 15 | bits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream | - |
| splinters | 11 | wood in small pieces or splinters | - |
| specified | 17 | clearly and explicitly stated | meals are at specified times |
| sprinkler | 15 | mechanical device that attaches to a garden hose for watering lawn or garden | - |
| splendour | 12 | a quality that outshines the usual | - |
| springing | 13 | - | - |
| speedboat | 14 | a fast motorboat | - |
| spiraling | 12 | in the shape of a coil | - |
| sprawling | 15 | spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | sprawling handwriting |
| sprouting | 12 | the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow | - |
| spearhead | 15 | the head and sharpened point of a spear | - |
| sprightly | 18 | full of spirit and vitality | a sprightly young girl |
| spaceport | 15 | - | - |
| sparingly | 15 | to a meager degree or in a meager manner | - |
| spearmint | 13 | common garden herb having clusters of small purplish flowers and yielding an oil used as a flavoring | - |
| spherical | 16 | having the shape of a sphere or ball | a spherical object |
| spareribs | 13 | baked or roasted with a spicy sauce | - |
| spattered | 12 | covered with bright patches (often used in combination) | a blood-spattered room |
| spearfish | 17 | any of several large vigorous pelagic fishes resembling sailfishes but with first dorsal fin much reduced; worldwide but rare | - |
| spacesuit | 13 | a pressure suit worn by astronauts while in outer space | - |
| sparkplug | 18 | - | - |
| spatially | 14 | with regard to space | spatially limited |
| speedster | 12 | - | - |
| spinnaker | 15 | a large and usually triangular headsail; carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind | - |
| springbok | 18 | a South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air | - |
| spasmodic | 16 | affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm | his body made a spasmodic jerk |
| spacewalk | 20 | move in space outside a space craft | - |
| spiritist | 11 | - | - |
| spadework | 19 | dull or routine preliminary work preparing for an undertaking | - |
| speediest | 12 | - | - |
| spiciness | 13 | behavior or language bordering on indelicacy | - |
| speedball | 14 | - | - |
| spiderweb | 17 | - | - |
| spikenard | 16 | an aromatic ointment used in antiquity | - |
| spillover | 14 | (economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure | - |
| spiralled | 12 | - | - |
| spaceband | 16 | - | - |
| spacelabs | 15 | - | - |
| spaceless | 13 | - | - |
| spacetime | 15 | - | - |
| spaceward | 17 | towards outer space | - |
| spacially | 16 | - | - |
| spaciness | 13 | - | - |
| spackling | 18 | - | - |
| spadassin | 12 | - | - |
| spadefeet | 15 | - | - |
| spadefish | 18 | deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters | - |
| spadefoot | 15 | a burrowing toad of the northern hemisphere with a horny spade-like projection on each hind foot | - |
| spadefuls | 15 | - | - |
| spadelike | 16 | - | - |
| spadesman | 14 | - | - |
| spadesmen | 14 | - | - |
| spadilles | 12 | - | - |
| spadillio | 12 | - | - |
| spadillos | 12 | - | - |
| spadroons | 12 | - | - |
| spaetzles | 20 | - | - |
| spaewives | 17 | - | - |
| spagerics | 14 | - | - |
| spagerist | 12 | - | - |
| spagirics | 14 | - | - |
| spagirist | 12 | - | - |
| spagyrics | 17 | - | - |
| spagyrist | 15 | - | - |
| spairging | 13 | - | - |
| spaldeens | 12 | - | - |
| spallable | 13 | - | - |
| spallings | 12 | - | - |
| spalpeens | 13 | - | - |
| spammiest | 15 | - | - |
| spammings | 16 | - | - |
| spanaemia | 13 | - | - |
| spanaemic | 15 | - | - |
| spanceled | 14 | - | - |
| spandexed | 20 | - | - |
| spandexes | 19 | - | - |
| spandrels | 12 | - | - |
| spandrils | 12 | - | - |
| spanghews | 18 | - | - |
| spanglers | 12 | - | - |
| spanglets | 12 | - | - |
| spanglier | 12 | - | - |
| spangling | 13 | - | - |
| spankings | 16 | - | - |
| spanspeks | 17 | - | - |
| spansules | 11 | - | - |
| spanworms | 16 | - | - |
| sparables | 13 | - | - |
| spareable | 13 | - | - |
| spareless | 11 | - | - |
| spareness | 11 | the property of having little body fat | - |
| sparkiest | 15 | - | - |
| sparklers | 15 | - | - |
| sparkless | 15 | - | - |
| sparklets | 15 | - | - |
| sparklier | 15 | - | - |
| sparklies | 15 | - | - |
| sparlings | 12 | - | - |
| sparriest | 11 | - | - |
| sparrings | 12 | - | - |
| sparsedly | 15 | - | - |
| sparteine | 11 | - | - |
| sparterie | 11 | - | - |
| sparticle | 13 | - | - |
| spartinas | 11 | - | - |
| spasmatic | 15 | - | - |
| spatfalls | 14 | - | - |
| spatlesen | 11 | - | - |
| spatleses | 11 | - | - |
| spatulate | 11 | (of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a narrow base | - |
| spawniest | 14 | - | - |
| spawnings | 15 | - | - |
| speakable | 17 | capable of being uttered in words or sentences | - |
| speakeasy | 18 | (during prohibition) an illegal barroom | - |
| speakings | 16 | - | - |
| speakouts | 15 | - | - |
| spearguns | 12 | - | - |
| speariest | 11 | - | - |
| spearings | 12 | - | - |
| spearlike | 15 | - | - |
| spearwort | 14 | - | - |
| specciest | 15 | - | - |
| specialer | 13 | - | - |
| speciated | 14 | - | - |
| speciates | 13 | - | - |
| specifics | 18 | - | - |
| specifier | 16 | someone who draws up specifications giving details (as for obtaining a patent) | - |
| specifies | 16 | - | - |
| specimens | 15 | - | - |
| speckiest | 17 | - | - |
| speckless | 17 | completely neat and clean | - |
| speckling | 18 | - | - |
| spectated | 14 | - | - |
| spectates | 13 | - | - |
| spectrins | 13 | - | - |
| spectrums | 15 | - | - |
| speculums | 15 | - | - |
| speechful | 19 | - | - |
| speechify | 22 | make speeches; hold forth, or harangue with a certain degree of formality | These ministers speechify on every occasion |
| speeching | 17 | - | - |
| speedings | 13 | - | - |
| speedless | 12 | - | - |
| speedread | 13 | - | - |
| speedwalk | 19 | - | - |
| speedways | 18 | - | - |
| speedwell | 15 | any plant of the genus Veronica | - |
| speerings | 12 | - | - |
| speirings | 12 | - | - |
| spekbooms | 19 | - | - |
| speldered | 13 | - | - |
| speldings | 13 | - | - |
| speldring | 13 | - | - |
| speldrins | 12 | - | - |
| spellable | 13 | - | - |
| spellbind | 14 | put into a trance | - |
| spelldown | 15 | a contest in which you are eliminated if you fail to spell a word correctly | - |
| spellican | 13 | - | - |
| spellings | 12 | - | - |
| spelunked | 16 | - | - |
| spelunker | 15 | a person who explores caves | - |
| spendable | 14 | (used of funds) remaining after taxes | spendable income |
| spendalls | 12 | - | - |
| spendiest | 12 | - | - |
| spendings | 13 | - | - |
| sperlings | 12 | - | - |
| spermaria | 13 | - | - |
| spermatia | 13 | - | - |
| spermatic | 15 | consisting of or resembling spermatozoa | - |
| spermatid | 14 | an immature gamete produced by a spermatocyte; develops into a spermatozoon | - |
| spermines | 13 | - | - |
| spetching | 17 | - | - |
| spewiness | 14 | - | - |
| sphacelus | 16 | the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply) | - |
| sphaerite | 14 | - | - |
| sphagnous | 15 | - | - |
| sphagnums | 17 | - | - |
| sphairees | 14 | - | - |
| sphendone | 15 | - | - |
| sphenodon | 15 | coextensive with the order Rhynchocephalia: tuataras | - |
| sphenoids | 15 | - | - |
| spheriest | 14 | - | - |
| spheroids | 15 | - | - |
| spherular | 14 | - | - |
| spherules | 14 | - | - |
| sphingids | 16 | - | - |
| sphygmoid | 21 | - | - |
| spiccatos | 15 | - | - |
| spicebush | 18 | deciduous shrub of the eastern United States having highly aromatic leaves and bark and yellow flowers followed by scarlet or yellow berries | - |
| spiceless | 13 | - | - |
| spiceries | 13 | - | - |
| spicilege | 14 | - | - |
| spicknels | 17 | - | - |
| spiculate | 13 | - | - |
| spiderier | 12 | - | - |
| spidering | 13 | - | - |
| spiderish | 15 | - | - |
| spidermen | 14 | - | - |
| spiffiest | 17 | - | - |
| spiffying | 21 | - | - |
| spighting | 16 | - | - |
| spikefish | 21 | - | - |
| spikelets | 15 | - | - |
| spikelike | 19 | resembling a spike | - |
| spikeries | 15 | - | - |
| spikiness | 15 | - | - |
| spilikins | 15 | - | - |
| spillable | 13 | - | - |
| spillages | 12 | - | - |
| spillikin | 15 | a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws | - |
| spillings | 12 | - | - |
| spillways | 17 | - | - |
| spilosite | 11 | - | - |
| spimmings | 16 | - | - |
| spinacene | 13 | - | - |
| spinaches | 16 | - | - |
| spinarama | 13 | - | - |
| spindlers | 12 | - | - |
| spindlier | 12 | - | - |
| spindling | 13 | - | - |
| spindrift | 15 | spray blown up from the surface of the sea | - |
| spinelike | 15 | - | - |
| spinelles | 11 | - | - |
| spinettes | 11 | - | - |
| spiniform | 16 | - | - |
| spininess | 11 | the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines | - |
| spinneret | 11 | - | - |
| spinniest | 11 | - | - |
| spinnings | 12 | - | - |
| spinosely | 14 | - | - |
| spinosity | 14 | - | - |
| spinsters | 11 | - | - |
| spintexts | 18 | - | - |
| spinulate | 11 | - | - |
| spinulose | 11 | - | - |
| spinulous | 11 | - | - |
| spiracles | 13 | - | - |
| spiracula | 13 | - | - |
| spiralism | 13 | - | - |
| spiralist | 11 | - | - |
| spirality | 14 | - | - |
| spiraster | 11 | - | - |
| spiration | 11 | - | - |
| spireless | 11 | - | - |
| spirelets | 11 | - | - |
| spirewise | 14 | - | - |
| spirillar | 11 | - | - |
| spirillum | 13 | any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form | - |
| spiritful | 14 | - | - |
| spiriting | 12 | - | - |
| spiritism | 13 | concern with things of the spirit | - |
| spiritoso | 11 | - | - |
| spiritous | 11 | containing or of the nature of alcohol | spiritous beverages |
| spirituel | 11 | - | - |
| spirlings | 12 | - | - |
| spirogram | 14 | a recording of breathing made with a spirograph | - |
| spirogyra | 15 | freshwater algae consisting of minute filaments containing spiral chlorophyll bands | - |
| spirulina | 11 | - | - |
| spitballs | 13 | - | - |
| spitchers | 16 | - | - |
| spitfires | 14 | - | - |
| spittiest | 11 | - | - |
| spittings | 12 | - | - |
| spittlier | 11 | - | - |
| spittoons | 11 | - | - |
| spivviest | 17 | - | - |
| splashers | 14 | - | - |
| splashier | 14 | - | - |
| splashily | 17 | - | - |
| splatched | 17 | - | - |
| splatches | 16 | - | - |
| splatters | 11 | - | - |
| splatting | 12 | - | - |
| splayfeet | 17 | - | - |
| splayfoot | 17 | a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out | - |
| spleenful | 14 | - | - |
| spleenier | 11 | - | - |
| spleenish | 14 | - | - |
| splendent | 12 | - | - |
| splendors | 12 | - | - |
| splenetic | 13 | very irritable | - |
| splenitis | 11 | inflammation of the spleen | - |
| spleniums | 13 | - | - |
| spleuchan | 16 | - | - |
| splicings | 14 | - | - |
| splintery | 14 | resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points | a rough splintery floor of old pine boards |
| splinting | 12 | - | - |
| splishing | 15 | - | - |
| splitters | 11 | - | - |
| splittism | 13 | - | - |
| splittist | 11 | - | - |
| splodgier | 13 | - | - |
| splodgily | 16 | - | - |
| splodging | 14 | - | - |
| splooshed | 15 | - | - |
| splooshes | 14 | - | - |
| sploshing | 15 | - | - |
| splotched | 17 | marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots | - |
| splotches | 16 | - | - |
| splurgers | 12 | - | - |
| splurgier | 12 | - | - |
| splurging | 13 | - | - |
| splurting | 12 | - | - |
| splutters | 11 | - | - |
| spluttery | 14 | - | - |
| spoddiest | 13 | - | - |
| spodogram | 15 | - | - |
| spodosols | 12 | - | - |
| spodumene | 14 | a pyroxene mineral consisting of lithium aluminum silicate; a source of lithium | - |
| spoilable | 13 | liable to decay or spoil or become putrid | - |
| spoilages | 12 | - | - |
| spoilfive | 17 | - | - |
| spoilsman | 13 | - | - |
| spoilsmen | 13 | - | - |
| spokesmen | 17 | - | - |
| spokewise | 18 | - | - |
| spoliated | 12 | - | - |
| spoliates | 11 | - | - |
| spoliator | 11 | - | - |
| spondaics | 14 | - | - |
| spondulix | 19 | - | - |
| spongebag | 15 | - | - |
| spongeing | 13 | - | - |
| spongeous | 12 | - | - |
| spongiest | 12 | - | - |
| spongiose | 12 | - | - |
| spongious | 12 | - | - |
| sponsalia | 11 | - | - |
| sponsible | 13 | - | - |
| sponsings | 12 | - | - |
| sponsions | 11 | - | - |
| sponsored | 12 | - | - |
| spontoons | 11 | - | - |
| spoofiest | 14 | - | - |
| spoofings | 15 | - | - |
| spookiest | 15 | - | - |
| spoolings | 12 | - | - |
| spoonbait | 13 | - | - |
| spoonbill | 13 | wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon | - |
| spoonfuls | 14 | - | - |
| spoonhook | 18 | - | - |
| spooniest | 11 | - | - |
| spoonlike | 15 | - | - |
| spoonsful | 14 | - | - |
| spoonways | 17 | - | - |
| spoonwise | 14 | - | - |
| spoonworm | 16 | - | - |
| sporangia | 12 | - | - |
| sporelike | 15 | - | - |
| sporicide | 14 | - | - |
| sporidesm | 14 | - | - |
| sporidial | 12 | - | - |
| sporidium | 14 | - | - |
| sporocarp | 15 | specialized leaf branch in certain aquatic ferns that encloses the sori or clusters of sporangia | - |
| sporocyst | 16 | - | - |
| sporocyte | 16 | - | - |
| sporogeny | 15 | - | - |
| sporogony | 15 | - | - |
| sporophyl | 19 | leaf in ferns and mosses that bears the sporangia | - |
| sporozoal | 20 | - | - |
| sporozoan | 20 | parasitic spore-forming protozoan | - |
| sporozoic | 22 | - | - |
| sporozoon | 20 | - | - |
| sportable | 13 | - | - |
| sportance | 13 | - | - |
| sportbike | 17 | - | - |
| sportcoat | 13 | - | - |
| sportiest | 11 | - | - |
| sportless | 11 | - | - |
| sportsmen | 13 | - | - |
| sporulate | 11 | convert into spores | - |
| sposhiest | 14 | - | - |
| spottable | 13 | - | - |
| spottiest | 11 | - | - |
| spottings | 12 | - | - |
| spousages | 12 | - | - |
| spousally | 14 | - | - |
| spoutiest | 11 | - | - |
| spoutings | 12 | - | - |
| spoutless | 11 | - | - |
| sprackled | 18 | - | - |
| sprackles | 17 | - | - |
| spraddled | 14 | - | - |
| spraddles | 13 | - | - |
| spragging | 14 | - | - |
| spraining | 12 | - | - |
| sprangled | 13 | - | - |
| sprangles | 12 | - | - |
| sprattled | 12 | - | - |
| sprattles | 11 | - | - |
| sprauchle | 16 | - | - |
| sprawlers | 14 | - | - |
| sprawlier | 14 | - | - |
| sprayiest | 14 | - | - |
| sprayings | 15 | - | - |
| spreaders | 12 | - | - |
| spreathed | 15 | - | - |
| spreathes | 14 | - | - |
| spreazing | 21 | - | - |
| sprechery | 19 | - | - |
| spreckled | 18 | - | - |
| spredding | 14 | - | - |
| spreethed | 15 | - | - |
| spreethes | 14 | - | - |
| spreezing | 21 | - | - |
| sprekelia | 15 | - | - |
| sprenting | 12 | - | - |
| spriggers | 13 | - | - |
| spriggier | 13 | - | - |
| sprigging | 14 | - | - |
| sprighted | 16 | - | - |
| sprigtail | 12 | large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America | - |
| springald | 13 | - | - |
| springals | 12 | - | - |
| springers | 12 | - | - |
| springier | 12 | - | - |
| springily | 15 | - | - |
| springles | 12 | - | - |
| springlet | 12 | - | - |
| sprinkled | 16 | - | - |
| sprinters | 11 | - | - |
| sprinting | 12 | - | - |
| spriteful | 14 | - | - |
| spritsail | 11 | a fore-and-aft sail extended by a sprit | - |
| spritzers | 20 | - | - |
| spritzier | 20 | - | - |
| spritzigs | 21 | - | - |
| spritzing | 21 | - | - |
| sprockets | 17 | - | - |
| sproglets | 12 | - | - |
| spruciest | 13 | - | - |
| spruikers | 15 | - | - |
| spruiking | 16 | - | - |
| sprushing | 15 | - | - |
| spuddiest | 13 | - | - |
| spuddings | 14 | - | - |
| spuilzied | 21 | - | - |
| spuilzies | 20 | - | - |
| spulyeing | 15 | - | - |
| spumantes | 13 | - | - |
| spunkiest | 15 | - | - |
| spunyarns | 14 | - | - |
| spurgalls | 12 | - | - |
| spurlings | 12 | - | - |
| spurnings | 12 | - | - |
| spurriers | 11 | - | - |
| spurriest | 11 | - | - |
| spurrings | 12 | - | - |
| sputtered | 12 | - | - |
| sputterer | 11 | - | - |
| spymaster | 16 | someone who directs clandestine intelligence activities | - |
| spyplanes | 16 | - | - |
