SP
abbreviation
Shore Patrol.
SP
1 American
sp.
2
American
abbreviation
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special.
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species.
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specific.
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specimen.
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spelling.
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spirit.
Sp.
3
American
s.p.
4
American
abbreviation
S.P.
5
American
abbreviation
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Shore Patrol.
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Socialist party.
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Submarine Patrol.
SP
1
British
abbreviation
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standard play: the standard recording speed on a VCR
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starting price
noun
Sp.
2
British
abbreviation
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Spain
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Spaniard
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Spanish
sp.
3
British
abbreviation
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special
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species
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specific
sp
4
British
abbreviation
Etymology
Origin of s.p.
From Latin sine prōle
Example Sentences
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A British mortgage company, Market Financial Solutions, is collapsing and facing accusations of fraud, the Journal reported in March, which might lead to losses for Apollo Global Management’s Atlas SP Partners and other lenders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Human limbs cannot naturally regenerate the way salamander limbs do, but researchers believe future therapies could potentially imitate some of the biological mechanisms controlled by SP genes.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026
“There was always going to be some blood on the street with such volatility in the metals complex,” says SP Angel in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
He enquired about a connection to mains electricity but was quoted £27,000 by his supplier, SP Electricity North West.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025
But I also think that all the kids in that SP class took away something very special, the notion that each of us had intellectual gifts to spend as we chose.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
"During a recreational dive in the summer during the undergraduate study of HY Chan in 2019, he accidentally discovered Thecacera sesama sp. nov. in northern Taiwan waters," the researchers said.
From Science Daily ● May 27, 2026
Then, they compared these features using a data matrix of 280 morphological characters and 82 groups of organisms, including Tyrannosaurus rex and Archaeopteryx sp., one of the earliest known birds.
From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2023
They found that Halteria sp. not only hungrily devoured the viruses, but they had enough nutritional value to thrive and reproduce.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2022
I believe it’s Tetmemena sp. — the genus name is fun because it has a ‘meme’ in it.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2013
P. 4-7 cm. convex then exp., polished, edge even, bluish or bluish purple; g. adnate, pale yellow; s. 4-5 cm. white; sp. 10-12.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
DGA SA and Jagiello Wrebiak i Wspolnicy Sp. z o.o. rank among the top 25 arrangers of acquisitions in Poland, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 22, 2010
From this the Sp. cayo, Eng. key, in the “Florida keys.”
From The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
A small streamer or banner, usually fixed on a pike: from banderola, Sp. diminutive of bandera, the flag or ensign.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
The last part of the French word is perhaps a corruption from the It. or Sp.; cf.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section P and Q by Project Gutenberg
The French have grade; It. and Sp., grado; Lat. gradus.
From Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 by Various
From his portrait S.P. seems to gaze out in disappointment at rooms that have grown increasingly dilapidated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
“I regret to report a hedge fund has since purchased Grover’s paper and laid him off,” wrote S.P.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
When you see the car, you know they’re there, you know they’re open — “it’s become a little fun extension, of the shop, of me,” says S.P.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
S.P. grew up with El Caminos — her dad had two, one black and one burgundy, that he used to drive her to preschool in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
If S.P. didn’t use so much soap on his hands, he wouldn’t always be late at breakfast.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
"During our nighttime scuba dives, we searched for the ribbon-like proboscises of Bonellia sp aff minor extending out from burrow entrances," says lead author Ryutaro Goto at KyotoU's Field Science Education and Research Center.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2023
But, when researchers looked at the genetic code, the protist Oligohymenophorea sp.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2023
To study this, researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln scooped up some pond water containing a microbe called Halteria sp.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2022
“Self-conscious referee waits until other official puts arms sp after field goal.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2021
A. N. N. albigulare, Hume A. The following new additions should now be made to the above to complete the known list of Andaman and Nicobar avifauna:— Zosterops sp.
From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by Kloss, C. Boden
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