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10-letter words containing c, i, n, e, p

  • scaloppine — scallops, especially of veal, flattened by pounding and usually dredged in flour or breadcrumbs and sautéed quickly: scaloppine alla Marsala.
  • scampering — to run or go hastily or quickly.
  • scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
  • 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
  • screw pine — any tropical Asian tree or shrub of the genus Pandanus, having a palmlike or branched stem, long, narrow, rigid, spirally arranged leaves and aerial roots, and bearing an edible fruit.
  • scrimpness — sparingness
  • scrub pine — any of several pines, as the jack pine, characterized by a scrubby or irregular manner of growth, usually found in dry, sandy soil.
  • shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
  • silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
  • 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.
  • spectating — to participate as a spectator, as at a horse race.
  • spencerian — pertaining to or characteristic of a system of penmanship, characterized by clear, rounded letters slanting to the right.
  • spinaceous — pertaining to or of the nature of spinach; belonging to the amaranth family of plants.
  • spinescent — Botany. becoming spinelike. ending in a spine. bearing spines.
  • 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
  • sporogenic — relating to the production or formation of spores, or producing spores
  • 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.
  • subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm
  • supersonic — greater than the speed of sound waves through air.
  • supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
  • suppliance — appeal; entreaty; plea; supplication: He knelt in an attitude of suppliance.
  • supragenic — beyond the limits or above the level of genes.
  • 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.
  • tachypneic — excessively rapid respiration.
  • tcherepnin — Alexander (Aleksandr Nikolaevich) 1899–1977, Russian pianist and composer, in the U.S.
  • teinoscope — an optical device employing prisms to correct the chromatic aberration of light
  • telephonic — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
  • the prince — a treatise on statecraft (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli.
  • the-prince — a treatise on statecraft (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli.
  • theophanic — a manifestation or appearance of God or a god to a person.
  • thinkpiece — an article analyzing and giving the background of a news event, often with the author's opinions and forecast for the future.
  • thrippence — threepence.
  • tippecanoe — a river in N Indiana, flowing SW to the Wabash: battle 1811. 200 miles (320 km) long.
  • triniscope — an early television with three tubes projecting the three primary colours
  • typhogenic — producing typhus or typhoid fever.
  • un-spliced — to join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands.
  • uncrippled — not crippled
  • underpitch — of or relating to a type of groin-vaulted ceiling construction
  • underprice — to price (goods or merchandise) lower than the standard price or fair value.
  • uneclipsed — not obscured or overshadowed
  • unemphatic — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
  • unimpacted — tightly or immovably wedged in.
  • unit price — rate1 (def 3).
  • unoccupied — without occupants; empty; vacant.
  • unpacified — to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquillity; quiet; calm: to pacify an angry man.
  • unpathetic — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
  • unpedantic — not pedantic; informal
  • unphonetic — not phonetic
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