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10-letter words containing c, o, s, t, e

  • shock tube — an apparatus in which a gas is heated to very high temperatures by means of a shock wave, usually for spectroscopic investigation of the natures and reactions of the resulting radicals and excited molecules
  • shock-test — to test (equipment or matériel) for resistance to sudden impact or stress.
  • short code — (language)   (SHORTCODE) A pseudocode interpreter for mathematics problems, designed by John Mauchly in 1949 to execute on Eckert and Mauchly's BINAC and later on UNIVAC I and II. Short Code was possibly the first attempt at a high level language.
  • siderocyte — an erythrocyte that contains iron in forms other than hematin.
  • silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
  • skeletonic — resembling a skeleton
  • sketch out — describe briefly
  • sketchbook — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
  • slop chest — a supply of clothing, boots, tobacco, and other personal goods for sale to the crew of a ship during a voyage.
  • slot racer — slot car.
  • smokestack — Also called stack. a pipe for the escape of the smoke or gases of combustion, as on a steamboat, locomotive, or building.
  • societally — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
  • sociometry — the measurement of attitudes of social acceptance or rejection through expressed preferences among members of a social grouping.
  • socket 370 — (hardware, standard, processor)   (PGA370) A physical and electrical specification for a motherboard processor socket. Socket 370 uses a square SPGA ZIF socket with 370 pins, arranged 37x37 (sometimes described as 19x19). The difference between the two versions is electrical; some pins are used differently and voltage requirements have been changed from Intel's VRM 8.2 to VRM 8.4. In addition, Celeron processors require a 66 MHz front side bus (FSB), and Pentium III processors require a 100/133 MHz FSB. Some older Socket 370 motherboards support VRM 8.4 and variable bus speeds, so adapters are available that convert the socket pinout to allow FC-PGA processors to work.
  • socket set — a set of different sized tools that can fit onto one handle and are used to tighten and loosen nuts
  • soft scale — any of numerous homopterous insect pests of the family Coccidae, as leafhoppers, aphids, and whiteflies, that are destructive to crops, shade and fruit trees, and various houseplants.
  • solacement — a comfort or consolation
  • solenocyte — a type of long, narrow, flagellated cell that functions in excretion of nitrogenous wastes and occurs in a variety of organisms, including certain annelids and mollusks.
  • solicitude — the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
  • solonetzic — characteristic of solonetz
  • somaticize — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
  • soricident — having shrewlike teeth
  • sotto voce — in a low, soft voice so as not to be overheard.
  • space shot — the launch of a spacecraft and its subsequent flight in space
  • spaced out — dazed or stupefied because of the influence of narcotic drugs.
  • spaced-out — dazed or stupefied because of the influence of narcotic drugs.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • sporocytes — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
  • spot check — impromptu inspection
  • spot price — the price of spot goods or of commodities on the spot market.
  • spot-check — to examine or investigate by means of a spot check.
  • stagecoach — a horse-drawn coach that formerly traveled regularly over a fixed route with passengers, parcels, etc.
  • statoscope — an aneroid barometer for registering minute variations of atmospheric pressure.
  • steam coal — coal with relatively high sulfur content, suited for generating steam but not for coking.
  • steatocele — a fatty tumour located in the scrotum
  • 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.
  • stercorary — a weatherproof place where dung is stored
  • stercorate — dung or faecal matter
  • stereocard — a card showing two stereoscopic pictures
  • sterno can — a small can of Sterno
  • stock code — an abbreviation that identifies a particular security on a stock-quotation machine
  • stock cube — bouillon cube used for gravy, etc.
  • stock dove — a cosmopolitan wild pigeon, Columba oenas, of Europe.
  • stockhorse — a horse or pony used in herding cattle.
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