10-letter words containing c, r, i, s, p, a
- practicers — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- practisant — a conspirator; someone who plots or schemes
- practising — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- pragmatics — pragmatic sanction.
- preachings — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- preaseptic — pertaining to the period before the use of aseptic practices in surgery.
- precarious — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- predacious — predatory; rapacious.
- prefascist — relating to fascist leanings before Fascism was founded in 1919
- priapismic — Pathology. continuous, usually nonsexual erection of the penis, especially due to disease.
- procacious — insolent
- profascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- prosaicism — prosaic character or style.
- psychiatry — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- punic wars — three wars (264–241 bc, 218–201 bc, and 149–146 bc), in which Rome crushed Carthaginian power, destroying Carthage itself
- purchasing — buying
- quadriceps — a large muscle in front of the thigh, the action of which extends the leg or bends the hip joint.
- radioscope — an instrument, such as a fluoroscope, capable of detecting radiant energy
- radioscopy — the examination of objects opaque to light by means of another form of radiation, usually x-rays.
- redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- riverscape — a view, painting, etc., of a river and the land surrounding or adjacent to it.
- sale price — discounted cost
- saprogenic — producing putrefaction or decay, as certain bacteria.
- sarcopenia — reduction in muscle tissue as a result of ageing
- sarcophagi — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- scampering — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- schizocarp — a dry, dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more one-seeded carpels.
- scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
- scrap iron — old iron to be remelted or reworked.
- scriptoria — a room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied.
- scriptural — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- shrinkpack — flexible plastic used for shrink-wrapping goods
- 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.
- spark coil — a coil of many turns of insulated wire on an iron core, used for producing sparks.
- spartacist — a member of a group of German radical socialists formed in 1916 and in 1919 becoming the German Communist Party, led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
- 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.
- sporadical — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sporicidal — a substance or preparation for killing spores.
- supercilia — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
- supragenic — beyond the limits or above the level of genes.
- supraoptic — above the optic chiasm
- suprapubic — above the pubic bone
- swipe card — a plastic card with magnetically encoded data that is decoded when passed through a slotted electronic reader, especially for payment or identification purposes.
- taperstick — a candlestick designed to hold tapers.
- tapescript — a recording of the spoken word on tape or a transcript of this