10-letter words containing c, a, r, p, e
- escarpment — A long, steep slope, especially one at the edge of a plateau or separating areas of land at different heights.
- etanercept — A drug that treats autoimmune diseases by interfering with the TNF receptor (part of the immune system).
- evaporitic — Of or pertaining to an evaporite.
- everyplace — (US, informal) Everywhere.
- explicator — A person or thing who explicates.
- filler cap — a device sealing the filling pipe to the petrol tank in a motor vehicle
- fireplaces — Plural form of fireplace.
- forage cap — (formerly) a small, low, undress cap.
- force play — a situation in which a base runner is forced to advance to a base or to home plate as a result of the batter becoming a base runner or to make room for another base runner.
- forcipated — Like a pair of forceps.
- free space — unused memory or storage
- geographic — of or relating to geography.
- graphemics — the study of writing systems and of their relation to speech.
- grapholect — an established and standardized written language
- grease cup — oilcup.
- greenpeace — an organization founded in 1971 that stresses the need to maintain a balance between human progress and environmental conservation. Members take active but nonviolent measures against what are regarded as threats to environmental safety, such as the dumping of nuclear waste in the sea
- hair space — the thinnest metal space used to separate words, symbols, etc.
- hairpieces — Plural form of hairpiece.
- half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost
- hard peach — a clingstone peach.
- haruspices — Plural form of haruspex.
- heat cramp — a cramp or muscular spasm caused by loss of water and salt following prolonged exertion in hot weather.
- hectograph — a process for making copies of a letter, memorandum, etc., from a prepared gelatin surface to which the original writing has been transferred.
- heptachlor — a highly toxic, light-tan, waxy solid, C 10 H 5 Cl 7 , used as an insecticide: its manufacture and use are restricted in the U.S.
- heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
- hermatypic — reef-building coral.
- home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
- hopper car — a freight car, usually open at the top and containing one or more hoppers so that bulk cargo can be quickly discharged through its bottom.
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
- hyperacute — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- hyperbaric — (of an anesthetic) having a specific gravity greater than that of cerebrospinal fluid. Compare hypobaric.
- hyperbatic — relating to a hyperbaton
- hyperchaos — (mathematics) A form of chaotic behaviour with at least two positive Lyapunov exponents.
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- hyperlocal — relating to or focused on a very small geographical community, as a neighborhood: hyperlocal news websites; hyperlocal advertising.
- hypermanic — pertaining to or affected by mania.
- hyperspace — a Euclidean space of dimension greater than three.
- hypersparc — (processor) The successor to the SuperSPARC processor, based on the SPARC ISA. The HyperSPARC has smaller caches than the SuperSPARC: 8kb on-chip and 256kb off-chip (compared with 36kb and 1Mb). The HyperSPARC's memory management is optimised for more efficient out-of-cache addressing which means quicker access to external (slower, cheaper) memory.
- hyporchema — a lively choral ode sung in ancient Greece in honor of Apollo or Dionysus.
- imparlance — an extension of time granted to one party in a lawsuit to plead or to settle the dispute amicably.
- impartance — Impartation.
- importance — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
- imprecated — Simple past tense and past participle of imprecate.
- imprecates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imprecate.
- incompared — incomparable; unmatched; unequalled
- inoperancy — The quality of being inoperant or inoperative, of lacking the power to be effective or effectual.
- interspace — a space between things.
- j particle — an early name for the J/psi particle.
- keep track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- kiloparsec — a unit of distance, equal to 1000 parsecs. Abbreviation: kpc.