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

  • radioscope — an instrument, such as a fluoroscope, capable of detecting radiant energy
  • receipting — a written acknowledgment of having received, or taken into one's possession, a specified amount of money, goods, etc.
  • receptible — adapted to or suitable for reception.
  • rechipping — action of changing the electronic identity of a stolen mobile phone
  • recipience — the act of receiving; reception.
  • recipiency — the act of receiving; reception.
  • reciprocal — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
  • red-pencil — to delete, censor, correct, or abridge (written material) with or as if with a pencil having a red lead: His book was heavily red-penciled before it got clearance.
  • redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
  • reperceive — to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses: I perceived an object looming through the mist.
  • replicable — capable of replication: The scientific experiment must be replicable in all details to be considered valid.
  • 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.
  • republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
  • 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.
  • rheopectic — the property exhibited by certain slow-gelling, thixotropic sols of gelling more rapidly when the containing vessel is shaken gently.
  • rhinoscope — a special instrument used to examine the nasal passages
  • rice paddy — a field planted with rice
  • rice paper — a thin paper made from the straw of rice, as in China.
  • riflescope — a telescopic sight mounted on top of a rifle that helps to improve one's aim by magnifying and pinpointing a target.
  • riverscape — a view, painting, etc., of a river and the land surrounding or adjacent to it.
  • rock tripe — any lichen of the genus Umbilicaria.
  • sale price — discounted cost
  • saprogenic — producing putrefaction or decay, as certain bacteria.
  • sarcopenia — reduction in muscle tissue as a result of ageing
  • sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
  • scampering — to run or go hastily or quickly.
  • schipperke — one of a Belgian breed of small dogs having erect ears and a thick, black coat, originally used as a watchdog on boats in the Netherlands and Belgium.
  • scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
  • screw pile — a pile that is used for the foundations of bridges, lighthouses, etc., and has a screwlike lower end for drilling through and taking firm hold in compacted material.
  • 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.
  • semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
  • 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.
  • soil creep — creep of soil on even slopes; often accelerated by spring freeze-and-thaw or general periglacial conditions. Compare creep (def 22a).
  • 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
  • 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.
  • spermicide — a sperm-killing agent, especially a commercial birth-control preparation, usually a cream or jelly.
  • sphericity — a spherical state or form.
  • spiceberry — a myrtaceous tree, Eugenia rhombea, of the Caribbean and Florida, with orange or black edible fruits
  • 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.
  • sporogenic — relating to the production or formation of spores, or producing spores
  • spot price — the price of spot goods or of commodities on the spot market.
  • stop price — the price at which a stop order is activated.
  • subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm
  • super-rich — having wealth or great possessions; abundantly supplied with resources, means, or funds; wealthy: a rich man; a rich nation.
  • superbitch — an exceptionally spiteful woman, a very bitchy person
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