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10-letter words containing a, p, e, n, i

  • springhare — a leaping and burrowing rodent, Pedetes capensis, native to southern Africa, having kangaroolike legs and long, pointed ears.
  • springhead — a spring or fountainhead from which a stream flows.
  • staphyline — having a form resembling a bunch of grapes
  • stenopaeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
  • stephanite — a mineral, silver antimony sulfide, Ag 5 SbS 4 : an ore of silver.
  • sugar pine — a tall pine, Pinus lambertiana, of California, Oregon, etc., having cones 20 inches (51 cm) long.
  • superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
  • superbrain — (computer)   A personal computer released in 1980 by Intertec. The Superbrain had two Z80A microprocessors running at 4 MHz, one for the main processing and the other for peripheral activities. It had an integrated keyboard and display. It was sold with the CP/M operating system, Microsoft Basic, an 8080 assembler and Microsoft Cobol 74. The base model, the "Superbrain 10", had no drives, only a network connection. Other models added one or two 5" floppy disc units. The "Jr" had 170K drives (single-sided), the "QD" had 340 KB drives (double-sided) and the "SD" had 780k. Intertec did not sell or support a hard drive or an S-100 bus for these machines. The network version of the SuperBrain was called CompuStar. The network was a large gray parallel cable. CompuStar had three "file servers" that accepted up to 255 machines. These were the "DSS-10" with a 10MB 8" Winchester drive; the "CDC" with 96MB consisting of 80MB fixed and a 16MB removable platter; and the "Priam" with a 144MB 14" platter winchester. Intertec manufactured the controllers for the last two and an enclosure and power supply for the Priam. CDC had to go on-site to install the 96MB. The SuperBrain was succeeded in 1982 by the SuperBrain II.
  • supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
  • superpaint — (graphics)   A pioneering graphics program and framebuffer computer system developed by Richard Shoup at Xerox PARC. Design started in 1972 and the system produced its first stable image in April 1973. SuperPaint was one of the first computers used for creative work, video editing and animation, all which would become major sections within the entertainment industry and major components of industrial design. SuperPaint had a graphical user interface and could capture images from video input or combine them with digital data. SuperPaint was the first program with features such as changing hue, saturation and value, a colour palette, custom polygons and lines, virtual paintbrushes and pencils, auto-filling of images and anti-aliasing.
  • suppliance — appeal; entreaty; plea; supplication: He knelt in an attitude of suppliance.
  • supragenic — beyond the limits or above the level of genes.
  • tachypneic — excessively rapid respiration.
  • tail plane — horizontal stabilizer.
  • tappit-hen — a hen with a crest or topknot.
  • temptation — the act of tempting; enticement or allurement.
  • tenantship — the state of being a tenant
  • theophanic — a manifestation or appearance of God or a god to a person.
  • tippecanoe — a river in N Indiana, flowing SW to the Wabash: battle 1811. 200 miles (320 km) long.
  • trampoline — a sheet, usually of canvas, attached by resilient cords or springs to a horizontal frame several feet above the floor, used by acrobats and gymnasts as a springboard in tumbling.
  • transpired — to occur; happen; take place.
  • transpires — to occur; happen; take place.
  • trapessing — to walk over; tramp: to traipse the fields.
  • trappiness — the state of being trappy
  • tripinnate — bipinnate, as a leaf, with the divisions also pinnate.
  • tropaeolin — any of a number of orange or yellow azo dyes of complex molecular structure.
  • tryptamine — a crystalline substance, C 10 H 12 N 2 , that is formed from tryptophan and is involved in various metabolic processes.
  • twin peaks — a mountain in central Idaho: highest peak in the Salmon River Mountains. 10,340 feet (3154 meters).
  • tympanites — distention of the abdominal wall, as in peritonitis, caused by the accumulation of gas or air in the intestine or peritoneal cavity.
  • unadaptive — serving or able to adapt; showing or contributing to adaptation: the adaptive coloring of a chameleon.
  • unapprised — not informed or apprised of something
  • unbaptized — not baptized
  • unemphatic — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
  • unexpiated — not expiated or atoned for
  • unimpacted — tightly or immovably wedged in.
  • unimpaired — weakened, diminished, or damaged: impaired hearing; to rebuild an impaired bridge.
  • unimparted — not communicated (to another person)
  • unipartite — made as or consisting of only one part
  • uniseptate — Biology. having only one septum or partition, as a silicle.
  • unpacified — to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquillity; quiet; calm: to pacify an angry man.
  • unparadise — to deprive of or expel from paradise
  • unpathetic — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
  • unpedantic — not pedantic; informal
  • unpickable — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • unpillared — having no pillar or pillars
  • unplausive — not applauding; disapproving
  • unpleasing — not pleasing
  • unprisable — not able to be prised or released from a grip
  • unprizable — not worthy to be prized; of little worth.
  • unrepaired — lack of repair; disrepair; dilapidation: in a state of unrepair.
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