11-letter words containing e, c, i, p
- retinoscope — an apparatus that determines the refractive power of the eye by observing the lights and shadows on the pupil when a mirror illumines the retina; skiascope.
- retinoscopy — an objective method of determining the refractive error of an eye.
- review copy — a copy of a book sent by a publisher to a journal, newspaper, etc, to enable it to be reviewed
- riesz space — a topological space in which sets containing one point are closed.
- riot police — police armed against public disorder
- rip current — undertow (def 1).
- rock pigeon — rock dove.
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- rope stitch — (in embroidery) a stitch formed from the entwining of stitches.
- ropedancing — the act of dancing on a rope
- sales pitch — promotional talk
- sapphic ode — Horatian ode.
- scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
- scatter pin — a woman's small ornamental pin, usually worn with other similar pins on a dress, suit jacket, etc.
- schizophyte — any of the Schizophyta, a group of organisms comprising the schizomycetes and the schizophyceous algae, characterized by a simple structure and reproduction by simple fission or spores.
- scopolamine — a colorless, syrupy, water-soluble alkaloid, C 1 7 H 2 1 NO 4 , obtained from certain plants of the nightshade family, used chiefly as a sedative and mydriatic and to alleviate the symptoms of motion sickness.
- scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
- scotch pine — a pine, Pinus sylvestris, of Eurasia, having a reddish trunk and twisted, bluish-green needles.
- scrappiness — made up of scraps or of odds and ends; fragmentary; disconnected.
- scrip issue — an issue of free shares distributed pro rata to existing stockholders instead of a dividend.
- scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
- scripophile — a person who practices scripophily.
- sea captain — the master of a seagoing vessel.
- seismic gap — the part of an active fault that has experienced little or no seismic activity for a long period, indicating the buildup of stresses that are useful in predicting earthquakes.
- seismoscope — an instrument for recording the occurrence or time of an earthquake.
- semiplastic — imperfectly plastic; in a state between rigidity and plasticity.
- semispheric — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.
- septic tank — a tank in which solid organic sewage is decomposed and purified by anaerobic bacteria.
- septicaemia — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
- serigraphic — of or pertaining to serigraphy
- serpentinic — of, relating to, or containing the mineral serpentine
- service cap — a saucer-shaped uniform cap with a visor, standard in the U.S. Army and Air Force.
- share price — cost of financial stocks
- shipwrecked — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
- sideroscope — an apparatus for detecting splinters of iron or steel in the eye.
- siege piece — a piece of gold or silver stamped as provisional legal tender in a besieged area.
- simpliciter — simply
- skeptically — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- skip tracer — an investigator whose job is to locate missing persons, especially debtors.
- slit pocket — a pocket on the underside of a garment, reached through a vertical opening
- snail-paced — slow of pace or motion, like a snail; sluggish.
- sniperscope — a snooperscope designed for attaching to a rifle or carbine.
- soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite
- spacefaring — space travel
- spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
- spec cint92 — (benchmark) A benchmark suite from SPEC, which contains six benchmarks in C performing integer computations. They can be used to estimate the performance of CPU, memory system, and compiler code generation. The individual programs are Logic Design (2x), Interpreter, Data Compression, Spreadsheet. The approximate size of the suite is 85500 lines of source code without comments. The benchmark suite can be used either for speed measurement, resulting in SPEC ratios, or for throughput measurement, resulting in SPEC rates
- special act — a legislative act that applies only to specific persons or to a specific area.
- specialised — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- specialises — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- specialized — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.