10-letter words containing a, c, p, s
- macpherson — James, 1736–96, Scottish author and translator.
- macropores — Plural form of macropore.
- macroprism — a prism belonging to an orthorhombic crystal found between the macropinacoid and the unit prism
- macroscope — A wide-field imaging device.
- macrospore — megaspore.
- manscaping — Present participle of manscape.
- manuscript — the original text of an author's work, handwritten or now usually typed, that is submitted to a publisher.
- march past — a parade or procession, especially of troops past a reviewing stand.
- march-past — a parade or procession, especially of troops past a reviewing stand.
- mascarpone — a very soft Italian cream cheese made from cow's milk.
- mast clamp — a pierced slab of hardwood built into the deck structure of a small ship or boat to receive the force of the mast, which is fitted tightly through it.
- meatoscope — (medicine) A speculum for examining a natural passage, such as the urethra.
- mediascape — Communications media as a whole.
- megaparsec — one million parsecs.
- megascopic — Visible to the naked eye.
- mesoscaphe — a mid-20th century vessel lowered into the sea to a moderate depth for the purpose of underwater exploration
- metacarpus — the part of a hand or forelimb, especially of its bony structure, included between the wrist, or carpus, and the fingers, or phalanges.
- metaphasic — Relating to metaphase.
- metaphysic — metaphysics.
- mindscapes — Plural form of mindscape.
- miscaption — to provide with an incorrect caption
- misocapnic — having a dislike or hate of tobacco smoke
- mispackage — a bundle of something, usually of small or medium size, that is packed and wrapped or boxed; parcel.
- misplacing — Present participle of misplace.
- monophasic — having one phase.
- monospaced — Simple past tense and past participle of monospace.
- moonscapes — Plural form of moonscape.
- mosaic map — a picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc.
- muciparous — muciferous.
- muckspread — to muckrake
- multipacks — Plural form of multipack.
- municipals — Plural form of municipal.
- mycoplasma — any of numerous parasitic microorganisms of the class Mollicutes, comprising the smallest self-reproducing prokaryotes, lacking a true cell wall and able to survive without oxygen: a common cause of pneumonia and urinary tract infections.
- namespaces — Plural form of namespace.
- nanoscopic — Having a scale expressed in nanometers.
- narcolepsy — a condition characterized by frequent and uncontrollable periods of deep sleep.
- neoplastic — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
- nightscape — a scene viewed at night, especially as represented in art.
- nonplastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
- nonspacing — (US) alternative spelling of non-spacing.
- nonspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- null-space — the set of elements of a vector space that a given linear transformation maps to zero.
- occipitals — Plural form of occipital.
- off-campus — located or available outside a campus.
- opalescent — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
- opalescing — Present participle of opalesce.
- open space — Ecology. undeveloped land that is protected from development by legislation.
- open-stack — having or being a system of library management in which patrons have direct access to stacks for browsing and selecting books; open-shelf.
- opsomaniac — a person with an extreme enthusiasm for a particular food
- optic axis — (in a crystal exhibiting double refraction) the direction or directions, uniaxial or biaxial, respectively, along which this phenomenon does not occur.