10-letter words containing c, o, p, r, e
- provection — (in Celtic languages) the devoicing of a consonant
- provenance — place or source of origin: The provenance of the ancient manuscript has never been determined.
- provencale — (sometimes lowercase) cooked, usually in olive oil, with garlic, tomatoes, onions, and herbs.
- providence — a state of the NE United States, on the Atlantic coast: a part of New England. 1214 sq. mi. (3145 sq. km). Capital: Providence. Abbreviation: RI (for use with zip code), R.I.
- pseudocarp — accessory fruit.
- pycnometer — a container used for determining the density of a liquid or powder, having a specific volume and often provided with a thermometer to indicate the temperature of the contained substance.
- pyrenocarp — Mycology. a perithecium.
- pyrochlore — a mineral, chiefly composed of niobates of the cerium metals, occurring in syenites in the form of brown crystals.
- pyrotechny — the art of making fireworks
- quadcopter — A rotorcraft propelled by four rotors.
- radarscope — the viewing screen of radar equipment.
- radioscope — an instrument, such as a fluoroscope, capable of detecting radiant energy
- reapproach — to come near or nearer to: The cars slowed down as they approached the intersection.
- reciprocal — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- recompense — to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
- recompress — to compress (something) again
- recomputed — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- recoupable — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
- recoupment — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
- 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.
- reproached — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
- reprobance — reprobation.
- reproducer — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- retrospect — contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc.
- 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
- riflescope — a telescopic sight mounted on top of a rifle that helps to improve one's aim by magnifying and pinpointing a target.
- rock maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
- rock opera — an album that tells a story through the songs it contains
- rock tripe — any lichen of the genus Umbilicaria.
- rockhopper — a small penguin, Eudyptes crestatus, of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and New Zealand, with a yellow crest on each side of its head
- roman pace — an ancient Roman unit of measurement, equal to 5 Roman feet or about 58 U.S. inches (147 cm).
- roof space — the attic space inside a roof
- ropedancer — a person who walks across or performs acrobatics upon a rope stretched at some height above the floor or ground.
- 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.
- scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
- scrapegood — a stingy person; a miser
- scunthorpe — a town in E England, in North Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire: developed rapidly after the discovery of local iron ore in the late 19th century; iron and steel industries have declined. Pop: 72 660 (2001)
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- shower cap — a plastic cap worn in the shower to keep the hair dry
- snow-creep — a continuous, slow, downhill movement of snow.
- soil creep — creep of soil on even slopes; often accelerated by spring freeze-and-thaw or general periglacial conditions. Compare creep (def 22a).
- spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
- 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.
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- 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.
- spore case — the case or sac in which spores are produced.