10-letter words containing c, a, m, p, s
- part music — music, especially vocal music, with parts for two or more independent performers.
- pas marche — a marching step.
- phallicism — worship of the phallus, especially as symbolic of power or of the generative principle of nature.
- phantasmic — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- pharmacist — a person licensed to prepare and dispense drugs and medicines; druggist; apothecary; pharmaceutical chemist.
- pismo clam — a large edible clam, Tivela stultorum, of sandy shores of California and Mexico.
- plasmacyte — Anatomy. an antibody-secreting cell, derived from B cells, that plays a major role in antibody-mediated immunity.
- pneumatics — a pneumatic tire.
- polymastic — a person with a polymastic condition
- postatomic — existing since or subsequent to the explosion of the first atomic bomb or the invention of atomic weapons: the political tensions of the postatomic world.
- postimpact — occurring after an impact
- pragmatics — pragmatic sanction.
- priapismic — Pathology. continuous, usually nonsexual erection of the penis, especially due to disease.
- prosaicism — prosaic character or style.
- psittacism — mechanical, repetitive, and meaningless speech.
- psychogram — a message believed to be written by a spirit or authored by psychical means
- sachemship — the office of a sachem
- sarcoplasm — the cytoplasm of a striated muscle fiber.
- scampering — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- scampishly — in a scampish manner
- scout camp — organized outdoor activity for boys
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- septicemia — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
- sic passim — so throughout: used especially as a footnote to indicate that a word, phrase, or idea recurs throughout the book being cited.
- 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.
- simplicial — relating to simplexes
- sketch map — a rough map of the principal features of a locale, as one drawn from memory.
- small chop — cocktail snacks
- small pica — (formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 11 point
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- spodomancy — divination by studying ashes
- spy camera — a hidden, disguised or miniature camera used in espionage
- subcompact — an automobile that is smaller than a compact.
- subcompany — subsidiary company.
- sugar camp — a grove of sugar maples.
- supermacho — extremely macho
- swampscott — a city in NE Massachusetts.