10-letter words containing c, s, p, r
- crispinian — Saint, See under Crispin, Saint.
- cropduster — an aeroplane used to spray crops with fertilizer or insecticide
- cross-post — a message posted to two or more message boards or electronic mailing lists at the same time: Cross-posts are often greeted with hostility.
- crosspatch — a peevish bad-tempered person
- crosspiece — a transverse beam, joist, etc
- croupiness — the condition of being afflicted with croup
- crown post — any vertical member in a roof truss, especially a king post.
- crumplings — crumpling or folding actions
- crushproof — unable to be crushed or creased
- cryophorus — a glass tube with a bulb at each end which contains water and water vapour, used in physics to demonstrate freezing by evaporation
- cryoprobes — Plural form of cryoprobe.
- cryoscopes — Plural form of cryoscope.
- cryoscopic — Chemistry. a technique for determining the molecular weight of a substance by dissolving it and measuring the freezing point of the solution.
- cryosphere — All those areas of the Earth where the surface is frozen.
- cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
- cupbearers — Plural form of cupbearer.
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- cyberspace — In computer technology, cyberspace refers to data banks and networks, considered as a place.
- cyprinoids — Plural form of cyprinoid.
- cystocarps — Plural form of cystocarp.
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- decomposer — any organism in a community, such as a bacterium or fungus, that breaks down dead tissue enabling the constituents to be recycled to the environment
- decompress — to relieve (a substance) of pressure or (of a substance) to be relieved of pressure
- deprecates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deprecate.
- descriptor — a word or phrase which constitutes the descriptive element of a sentence
- despatcher — Alternative form of dispatcher.
- discrepant — (usually of two or more objects, accounts, findings etc.) differing; disagreeing; inconsistent: discrepant accounts.
- disparency — (proscribed) A significant discrepancy.
- dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
- disprinced — rendered unprincely
- disrespect — Lack of respect or courtesy.
- doctorship — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- dreamscape — a dreamlike, often surrealistic scene.
- drop scene — a drop curtain, often of painted or dyed canvas, located downstage and used as the backdrop for a scene played while the set upstage is being changed.
- drop scone — a flat spongy cake made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle
- dropcloths — Plural form of dropcloth.
- drum corps — a band, especially a marching band, of drum players usually under the direction of a drum major.
- drupaceous — resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.
- duck press — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
- dysgraphic — a person who suffers from dysgraphia
- dysmorphic — relating to or resulting in misshapenness of parts of the body
- dyspractic — relating to or affected by dyspraxia
- dystrophic — Medicine/Medical. pertaining to or caused by dystrophy.
- ecmascript — (language) (ECMA standard 262, ISO standard 16262) The standardised version of the core JavaScript language.
- ectomorphs — Plural form of ectomorph.
- ectoprocts — Plural form of ectoproct.
- ekphrastic — Pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid.
- empiricism — The theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. Stimulated by the rise of experimental science, it developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, expounded in particular by John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume.
- empiricist — An advocate or supporter of empiricism.
- encaptures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encapture.