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10-letter words containing c, a, s, p, e, r

  • scrapegood — a stingy person; a miser
  • screenplay — a motion-picture or television scenario.
  • screwplate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
  • semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
  • sepulchral — of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
  • sheep race — a single-file walkway for sheep at the entrance to a sheep-dip
  • sheeptrack — a small natural terrace on a hillside
  • shower cap — a plastic cap worn in the shower to keep the hair dry
  • 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.
  • skyscraper — a relatively tall building of many stories, especially one for office or commercial use.
  • 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 rate — a unit of compensation for written work, based on the amount of space that the submitted material occupies in print, and usually computed in column inches.
  • spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
  • spacecraft — a vehicle designed for travel or operation in space beyond the earth's atmosphere or in orbit around the earth.
  • 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.
  • 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 It is the geometric mean of ten SPEC ratios of the outdated 1989 SPEC benchmark suite. The use of SPECmark89 is strongly discouraged, having been superseded by CINT92 and CFP92.
  • spectatrix — a female spectator
  • spectrally — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
  • speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
  • spencerian — pertaining to or characteristic of a system of penmanship, characterized by clear, rounded letters slanting to the right.
  • 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
  • spore case — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
  • spy camera — a hidden, disguised or miniature camera used in espionage
  • spycatcher — a person who works in counterintelligence to detect enemy espionage activities
  • stepdancer — a person who engages in stepdancing
  • subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
  • superacute — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
  • supercargo — a merchant-ship officer who is in charge of the cargo and the commercial concerns of the voyage.
  • supercilia — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
  • superclass — a category of related classes within a phylum or subphylum.
  • superclean — exceptionally clean
  • superfecta — a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor must select the first four finishers in exact order.
  • superflack — an extremely competent, successful press agent
  • supermacho — extremely macho
  • superscale — on a very large scale
  • supragenic — beyond the limits or above the level of genes.
  • swipe card — a plastic card with magnetically encoded data that is decoded when passed through a slotted electronic reader, especially for payment or identification purposes.
  • taperstick — a candlestick designed to hold tapers.
  • tapescript — a recording of the spoken word on tape or a transcript of this
  • upper case — an often small or portable container for enclosing something, as for carrying or safekeeping; receptacle: a jewel case.
  • wackyparse — (Internet, slang) In Kibology, the practice of misreading text to humorous effect (perhaps deliberately), especially in line with traditional absurdist humor.
  • waterscape — a picture or view of the sea or other body of water.
  • work space — area used for work
  • workplaces — Plural form of workplace.
  • workspaces — Plural form of workspace.
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