10-letter words containing a, c, p, s
- grass carp — a large carp of the genus Ctenopharyngodon, of southern Chinese inland waters, that grazes on water weeds.
- grease cup — oilcup.
- hagioscope — squint (def 13).
- hair space — the thinnest metal space used to separate words, symbols, etc.
- hairpieces — Plural form of hairpiece.
- handclasps — Plural form of handclasp.
- handpieces — Plural form of handpiece.
- harpsicord — Dated form of harpsichord.
- haruspices — Plural form of haruspex.
- headpieces — Plural form of headpiece.
- heptastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of seven lines or verses.
- hipparchus — died 514 b.c, tyrant of Athens 527–514.
- home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
- hopsacking — bagging made chiefly of hemp and jute.
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
- hyperchaos — (mathematics) A form of chaotic behaviour with at least two positive Lyapunov exponents.
- hyperspace — a Euclidean space of dimension greater than three.
- hypersparc — (processor) The successor to the SuperSPARC processor, based on the SPARC ISA. The HyperSPARC has smaller caches than the SuperSPARC: 8kb on-chip and 256kb off-chip (compared with 36kb and 1Mb). The HyperSPARC's memory management is optimised for more efficient out-of-cache addressing which means quicker access to external (slower, cheaper) memory.
- hypocausts — Plural form of hypocaust.
- hypostatic — of or relating to a hypostasis; fundamental.
- impactions — Plural form of impaction.
- impedances — Plural form of impedance.
- implicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of implicate.
- imprecates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imprecate.
- inculpates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inculpate.
- interspace — a space between things.
- ipso facto — by the fact itself; by the very nature of the deed: to be condemned ipso facto.
- iso pascal — A Lex scanner and Yacc parser are in the comp.sources.unix volume 13 archive.
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- isographic — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- isopachous — having the same thickness.
- isopycnals — Plural form of isopycnal.
- jackanapes — an impertinent, presumptuous person, especially a young man; whippersnapper.
- javascript — Alternative capitalization of JavaScript.
- jockstraps — Plural form of jockstrap.
- kiloparsec — a unit of distance, equal to 1000 parsecs. Abbreviation: kpc.
- kilopascal — one thousand pascals
- knapsacked — Simple past tense and past participle of knapsack.
- lactoscope — an optical device for determining the amount of cream in milk.
- landscaped — Simple past tense and past participle of landscape.
- landscaper — a gardener who does landscape gardening.
- landscapes — Plural form of landscape.
- laserscope — a surgical instrument that employs a laser beam to destroy diseased tissue or to create small channels; used to open clogged arteries and, in ophthalmology, to treat patients with glaucoma or diabetic retinopathy.
- leucoplast — a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.
- life space — a spatial representation of all the forces that control a person's behaviour
- line space — (on a typewriter, typesetter, printer, or the like) the horizontal space provided for a line of typing, typesetting, printing, etc.
- lunarscape — the landscape of the moon.
- lunchpails — Plural form of lunchpail.
- lymphatics — Plural form of lymphatic.
- machoflops — /mach'oh-flops/ A pun on "megaflops" referring to the inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers. Real application programs are lucky to get half the quoted speed. See Your mileage may vary, benchmark.