10-letter words containing a, c, t, i, o
- recitativo — recitative2 .
- recreation — the act of creating anew.
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- refraction — Physics. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.
- relocation — to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
- replicator — Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.
- retraction — the act of retracting or the state of being retracted.
- revocation — the act of revoking; annulment.
- rheostatic — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
- rhetorical — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- rhinotheca — the covering of the upper part of the beak in birds
- rhotacized — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- rio cuarto — a city in central Argentina.
- royalistic — relating to a royalist
- rusticator — to go to the country.
- sanctimony — pretended, affected, or hypocritical religious devotion, righteousness, etc.
- sanctioned — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- scholastic — of or relating to schools, scholars, or education: scholastic attainments.
- sclerotial — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- scotodinia — a dizziness accompanied by a headache and disturbed vision
- scriptoria — a room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied.
- see action — to participate in military combat
- semiotical — of or relating to signs.
- societally — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- sociopathy — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- sodcasting — the practice of playing music through the speakers of a mobile phone in a public space
- soil stack — a vertical soil pipe.
- solicitant — a solicitor
- somali cat — a breed of cat with medium-length silky hair, large ears, and a bushy tail
- somaticize — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
- sonication — a treatment using ultrasound
- 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.
- speciation — the formation of new species as a result of geographic, physiological, anatomical, or behavioral factors that prevent previously interbreeding populations from breeding with each other.
- stanchions — an upright bar, beam, post, or support, as in a window, stall, ship, etc.
- staycation — a vacation spent at home or near home, doing enjoyable activities or visiting local attractions.
- stenopaeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
- stiacciato — a flat or low relief popular with 15th- and 16th-century Italian sculptors
- sticharion — a white tunic of silk or linen, corresponding to the alb, worn by deacons, priests, and bishops.
- stochastic — of or relating to a process involving a randomly determined sequence of observations each of which is considered as a sample of one element from a probability distribution.
- stracchino — a soft cheese from North Italy
- subatomics — the study of subatomic particles
- supraoptic — above the optic chiasm
- syndicator — a person who establishes a syndicate
- tailcoated — wearing a tailcoat
- tamagotchi — a handheld digital toy, consisting of a digital 'pet' that the owner looks after; very popular in the 1990s
- teichopsia — a temporary visual impairment associated with migraine
- tesla coil — an air-core transformer used to produce high voltages of high-frequency alternating currents.
- tetratomic — having four atoms per molecule, especially of a specified kind.
- thanatotic — an ancient Greek personification of death.
- theocratic — a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.