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10-letter words containing a, p, e, s, m

  • ptolemaeus — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 90 miles (144 km) in diameter.
  • ptolemaist — an adherent or advocate of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy.
  • push media — (messaging)   A model of media distribution where items of content are sent to the user (viewer, listener, etc.) in a sequence, and at a rate, determined by a server to which the user has connected. This contrasts with pull media where the user requests each item individually. Push media usually entail some notion of a "channel" which the user selects and which delivers a particular kind of content. Broadcast television is (for the most part) the prototypical example of push media: you turn on the TV set, select a channel and shows and commercials stream out until you turn the set off. By contrast, the web is (mostly) the prototypical example of pull media: each "page", each bit of content, comes to the user only if he requests it; put down the keyboard and the mouse, and everything stops. At the time of writing (April 1997), much effort is being put into blurring the line between push media and pull media. Most of this is aimed at bringing more push media to the Internet, mainly as a way to disseminate advertising, since telling people about products they didn't know they wanted is very difficult in a strict pull media model. These emergent forms of push media are generally variations on targeted advertising mixed in with bits of useful content. "At home on your computer, the same system will run soothing screensavers underneath regular news flashes, all while keeping track, in one corner, of press releases from companies whose stocks you own. With frequent commercial messages, of course." (Wired, March 1997, page 12). As part of the eternal desire to apply a fun new words to boring old things, "push" is occasionally used to mean nothing more than email spam.
  • rampageous — violent; unruly; boisterous.
  • rampasture — a large attic room.
  • re-baptism — a new or second baptism
  • reprimands — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
  • rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
  • sachemship — the office of a sachem
  • sapperment — a German oath
  • scampering — to run or go hastily or quickly.
  • seamanship — knowledge and skill pertaining to the operation, navigation, management, safety, and maintenance of a ship.
  • semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
  • semiopaque — partly or nearly opaque.
  • semipostal — a postage stamp sold by a government at a premium above its face value, the excess being used for a nonpostal purpose, as a charity.
  • separatism — a person who separates, withdraws, or secedes, as from an established church.
  • septicemia — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
  • sheep farm — place where sheep are raised
  • shipmaster — a person who commands a ship; master; captain.
  • simple arc — a curve that does not cross itself and has no points missing; a curve that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the closed interval from 0 to 1.
  • sketch map — a rough map of the principal features of a locale, as one drawn from memory.
  • slipstream — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
  • smarten up — improve appearance
  • smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
  • smoothpate — a bald person with a smooth head
  • snmp agent — (networking)   A software process that responds to queries using the Simple Network Management Protocol to provide status and statistics about a network node.
  • somatotype — (of humans) physical type; physique.
  • someplaces — somewhere
  • space mark — a proofreader's symbol used to indicate the need to insert space, as between two typed or printed words that have been run together. Symbol: #.
  • space-time — Also called space-time continuum. the four-dimensional continuum, having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate, in which all physical quantities may be located.
  • spacewoman — a woman astronaut.
  • spare room — guest bedroom
  • spare time — leisure hours
  • specialism — devotion or restriction to a particular pursuit, branch of study, etc.
  • specmark89 — (benchmark)   An old SPECmark benchmark result derived from a set of floating-point and integer benchmarks. It is the geometric mean of ten SPEC ratios of the outdated 1989 SPEC benchmark suite. The use of SPECmark89 is strongly discouraged, having been superseded by CINT92 and CFP92.
  • speed ramp — a raised band across a road, designed to make motorists reduce their speed, esp in built-up areas
  • sperm bank — a repository for storing sperm and keeping it viable under scientifically controlled conditions prior to its use in artificial insemination.
  • spermaceti — a pearly white, waxy, translucent solid, obtained from the oil in the head of the sperm whale: used chiefly in cosmetics and candles, and as an emollient.
  • spermaduct — a spermatic passage found in male animals
  • spermarium — the sperm gland
  • spermatial — relating to the male reproductive cells of certain red algae and fungi
  • spermatium — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
  • spermatoid — resembling sperm.
  • sphenogram — a cuneiform character.
  • spy camera — a hidden, disguised or miniature camera used in espionage
  • stampeders — a sudden, frenzied rush or headlong flight of a herd of frightened animals, especially cattle or horses.
  • statampere — the electrostatic unit of current, equivalent to 3.3356 × 10 −10 ampere and equal to the current produced by an electromotive force of one statvolt acting through a resistance of one statohm.
  • steam trap — a device in a steam pipe that collects and discharges condensed water
  • steam-punk — a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy featuring advanced machines and other technology based on steam power of the 19th century and taking place in a recognizable historical period or a fantasy world.
  • steamed up — obscured by vapour
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