10-letter words containing c, e, s, p, i, t
- prefascist — relating to fascist leanings before Fascism was founded in 1919
- price list — a list giving the prices of items for sale.
- prime cost — that part of the cost of a commodity deriving from the labor and materials directly utilized in its manufacture.
- prosecting — to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- prosthetic — of or relating to an artificial body part or prosthesis: He was fitted for a prosthetic arm.
- proteomics — the study of the functions, structures, and interactions of proteins; the study of the proteome.
- psittacine — of or relating to parrots.
- putrescine — a colourless crystalline amine produced by decaying animal matter; 1,4-diaminobutane. Formula: H2N(CH2)4NH2
- quicksteps — Plural form of quickstep.
- redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- respecting — regarding; concerning.
- respective — pertaining individually or severally to each of a number of persons, things, etc.; particular: I will now discuss the respective merits of the candidates.
- scepticism — skeptical attitude or temper; doubt.
- scots pine — a coniferous tree, Pinus sylvestris, of Europe and W and N Asia, having blue-green needle-like leaves and brown cones with a small prickle on each scale: a valuable timber tree
- septicemia — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
- septicemic — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
- septicidal — (of a capsule) dehiscing lengthwise along a septum.
- sheep tick — a wingless, bloodsucking, dipterous insect, Melophagus ovinus, that is parasitic on sheep.
- silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
- skepticism — skeptical attitude or temper; doubt.
- space suit — outfit worn by astronaut
- 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.
- 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.
- specialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
- speciality — specialty.
- speciation — the formation of new species as a result of geographic, physiological, anatomical, or behavioral factors that prevent previously interbreeding populations from breeding with each other.
- speciosity — the quality or state of being specious.
- spectating — to participate as a spectator, as at a horse race.
- spectatrix — a female spectator
- 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.
- sphericity — a spherical state or form.
- spiculated — covered with spicules or needle-like
- spiflicate — to destroy; annihilate
- spinescent — Botany. becoming spinelike. ending in a spine. bearing spines.
- spirochete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
- split cane — bamboo split into strips of triangular section, tapered, and glued to form a stiff but flexible hexagonal rod: used, esp formerly, for making fishing rods
- spot price — the price of spot goods or of commodities on the spot market.
- stenopaeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
- stenotopic — (of an animal or plant) able to tolerate only small environmental changes.
- stop price — the price at which a stop order is activated.
- stuck pipe — Stuck pipe happens when part of the drillpipe cannot be turned or moved up or down.
- subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
- superbitch — an exceptionally spiteful woman, a very bitchy person
- superthick — extremely thick
- supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
- supplicate — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
- susceptive — receptive.
- suscipient — a recipient
- suspecting — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- taperstick — a candlestick designed to hold tapers.