10-letter words containing e, c, t, a, s, i
- pleonastic — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- pneumatics — a pneumatic tire.
- practicers — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- preaseptic — pertaining to the period before the use of aseptic practices in surgery.
- prefascist — relating to fascist leanings before Fascism was founded in 1919
- psittacine — of or relating to parrots.
- quadrisect — to divide (something) into four equal parts.
- quittances — Plural form of quittance.
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- requiescat — a wish or prayer for the repose of the dead.
- resistance — the act or power of resisting, opposing, or withstanding.
- revanchist — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- rheostatic — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
- rheumatics — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rice blast — a disease of rice caused by the fungus Pyricularia oryae, characterized by elliptical leaf spots with reddish-brown margins, brownish lesions and neck rot of the fruiting panicles, and stunting of the plant.
- rickettsia — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- salicylate — a salt or ester of salicylic acid.
- sanctified — made holy; consecrated: sanctified wine.
- sanctifier — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- sanctioned — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sanctitude — holiness; saintliness; sanctity.
- satellitic — relating to a satellite or smaller planet that revolves around a larger planet
- scantiness — scant in amount, quantity, etc.; barely sufficient.
- scattering — distributed or occurring here and there at irregular intervals; scattered.
- scaturient — gushing; overflowing.
- schalstein — a slate-like rock formed by shearing basaltic or andesitic tuff or lava
- schematism — the particular form or disposition of a thing.
- schematist — a person who forms schemes; a schemer
- schematize — to reduce to or arrange according to a scheme.
- sclerotial — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- secretaire — any writing desk resembling a secretary.
- secularist — secular spirit or tendency, especially a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship.
- secularity — secular views or beliefs; secularism.
- see action — to participate in military combat
- semantical — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semiotical — of or relating to signs.
- septicemia — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
- septicidal — (of a capsule) dehiscing lengthwise along a septum.
- sex addict — a person who is addicted to engaging in sexual activity
- shit-faced — very drunk.
- siegecraft — the science or skill of conducting a siege
- sluicegate — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- societally — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- somaticize — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
- space suit — outfit worn by astronaut
- space-time — Also called space-time continuum. the four-dimensional continuum, having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate, in which all physical quantities may be located.
- 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.
- specialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
- speciality — specialty.