10-letter words containing a, c, r, o, p
- scrap iron — old iron to be remelted or reworked.
- scrapegood — a stingy person; a miser
- scriptoria — a room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied.
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- shower cap — a plastic cap worn in the shower to keep the hair dry
- spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
- spark coil — a coil of many turns of insulated wire on an iron core, used for producing sparks.
- spec ratio — (benchmark) Results for each individual benchmark of the SPEC benchmark suites, for example CINT92 and CFP92, expressed as the ratio of the wall clock time to execute one single copy of the benchmark, compared to a fixed "SPEC reference time", which was chosen early-on as the execution time on a VAX 11/780. See also SPEC rate.
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- sporadical — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- spore case — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- sporicidal — a substance or preparation for killing spores.
- sport coat — A sport coat is a man's jacket. It is worn on informal occasions with pants of a different material.
- sports cap — a hat designed for sports or to look sporty
- sports car — small, low, fast car
- sportscast — a radio or television program consisting of sports news or of a running description of a sports event.
- supercargo — a merchant-ship officer who is in charge of the cargo and the commercial concerns of the voyage.
- supermacho — extremely macho
- supraoptic — above the optic chiasm
- syncarpous — of the nature of or pertaining to a syncarp.
- tachograph — a recording tachometer.
- touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
- trackpoint — (hardware) (Or "pointing stick", "nipple") A small knob found in the middle of some keyboards that works like a very short isometric joystick. Pressing it toward or away from you or from side to side moves the pointer on the screen. Ted Selker brought the concept of an in-keyboard pointing device to IBM in September 1987. TrackPoint was introduced in 1992 on the IBM ThinkPad and later on some desktops. It takes up virtually no extra room on the box or the work area and also requires minimal movement of the hands from the keyboard. Many imitations of highly variable quality appeared. Pointing sticks have also been used in many other notebook brands, including TI, HP, Compac, Dell, Toshiba (e.g. Portege 4000's "AccuPoint II"), and AST (e.g. Ascentia 910N). "TrackPoint" and "Trackpoint" are IBM trademarks.
- tropically — pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics, especially the humid tropics: tropical flowers.
- uncompared — to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note similarities and differences: to compare two pieces of cloth; to compare the governments of two nations.
- urographic — of or relating to urography
- vagotropic — affecting the vagus nerve.
- vapor lock — an obstruction to the flow of fuel to a gasoline engine, caused by the formation of bubbles in the gasoline as a result of overheating.
- vectograph — a technology that uses special glasses to see a photographic image between two plastic sheets as three dimensional
- voice part — the melody or succession of tones for one of the voices or instruments in a harmonic or concerted composition.
- work space — area used for work
- workplaces — Plural form of workplace.
- workspaces — Plural form of workspace.
- xerox parc — /zee'roks park'/ Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center. For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of ground-breaking hardware and software innovations. The modern mice, windows, and icons (WIMP) style of software interface was invented there. So was the laser printer and the local-area network; Smalltalk; and PARC's series of D machines anticipated the powerful personal computers of the 1980s by a decade. Sadly, the prophets at PARC were without honour in their own company, so much so that it became a standard joke to describe PARC as a place that specialised in developing brilliant ideas for everyone else. The stunning shortsightedness and obtusity of XEROX's top-level suits has been well described in the reference below.
- zincograph — (formerly) a zinc plate produced by zincography.