10-letter words containing c, a, t, e, r, p
- receptacle — a container, device, etc., that receives or holds something: a receptacle for trash.
- recuperate — to recover from sickness or exhaustion; regain health or strength.
- red carpet — a red strip of carpet placed on the ground for high-ranking dignitaries to walk on when entering or leaving a building, vehicle, or the like.
- red packet — a sum of money folded inside red paper and given at the Chinese New Year to unmarried younger relatives
- redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- repentance — deep sorrow, compunction, or contrition for a past sin, wrongdoing, or the like.
- replicator — Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.
- respectant — aspectant.
- screwplate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
- sheeptrack — a small natural terrace on a hillside
- 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.
- 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.
- spectatrix — a female spectator
- spectrally — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- 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
- 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.
- superfecta — a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor must select the first four finishers in exact order.
- tap dancer — to perform a tap dance.
- taper jack — a device for melting sealing wax, having a waxed wick fed through a plate from a reel.
- taperstick — a candlestick designed to hold tapers.
- tapescript — a recording of the spoken word on tape or a transcript of this
- temperance — moderation or self-restraint in action, statement, etc.; self-control.
- the parcae — the Roman goddesses of fate
- touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
- triplicate — one of three identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
- uncaptured — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- uncarpeted — having no carpet
- vectograph — a technology that uses special glasses to see a photographic image between two plastic sheets as three dimensional
- voice part — the melody or succession of tones for one of the voices or instruments in a harmonic or concerted composition.
- w particle — either of two types of charged intermediate vector bosons, one having a positive charge and the other a negative charge. Symbols: W + , W −.
- waterscape — a picture or view of the sea or other body of water.
- what price — You use what price in front of a word or expression that refers to something happening when you want to ask how likely it is to happen. You usually do this to emphasize either that it is very likely or very unlikely.
- z particle — one of three particles, called intermediate vector bosons, that are believed to transmit the weak force. Symbol: Z 0.