SP
abbreviation
Shore Patrol.
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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.
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S.P.
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Shore Patrol.
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Socialist party.
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Submarine Patrol.
SP
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standard play: the standard recording speed on a VCR
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starting price
noun
Sp.
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Spain
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Spaniard
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Etymology
Origin of s.p.
From Latin sine prōle
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This new study suggests that a group of genes known as SP genes may play a central role in that effort.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026
MFS pledged those loans as collateral to obtain money from banks and asset managers, including Atlas SP Partners, a unit of Apollo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 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
Framber Valdez, 32, SP, 3.8, 18.8: Valdez was impressively consistent for the Astros and should be able to choose between several multi-year offers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2026
I liked the rapid advancement class, also called SP.
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
On Blepharcorys equi, sp. nov., a New Ciliate from the Caecum of the Horse, by Irwin C. Schumacher.
From The Subspecies of the Mountain Chickadee by Joseph Grinnell
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
Sp. batallador a great combatant, he who has fought many battles, Pg. batalhador, Pr. batalhador, warrior, soldier, fr.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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 Sir Edward Belcher
S. For to is prefixed to the inf. of verbs in the same manner as the Fr. pour, or Sp. por.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
They may be converted into an ordinary statement of specific gravity by the following formulæ:— Sp. g.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
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
The legendary Theodore Sturgeon reviewed the young Thai writer S.P.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022
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
P. 5-8 cm. brownish white then tan, exp. margin incurved, glabrous, flesh-coloured; g. arcuate, crowded, white; s. 4-6 cm. solid, fibrilloso-squamulose, pale brown, base darker, bulbous; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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