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11-letter words containing e, p, i, c, t

  • 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.
  • serpentinic — of, relating to, or containing the mineral serpentine
  • 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
  • soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite
  • 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.
  • specialties — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
  • specificate — a thing which is specified
  • specificity — the quality or state of being specific.
  • spectrality — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
  • specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
  • speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • speculatist — a person who speculates
  • speculative — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
  • spermatoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
  • spermotoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
  • spice route — an ancient trade route followed by merchants, importers and exporters trading in exotic spices such as cloves and cinnamon
  • spirit cave — an archaeological site in Thailand that has produced evidence of very early plant domestication in Southeast Asia, dated c7000 b.c.
  • spirochaete — 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.
  • spite fence — a wall or fence erected solely to annoy one's neighbor or lower the value of his or her property.
  • spitsticker — a wood-engraving tool with a fine prow-shaped point for cutting curved lines
  • sprite crab — ghost crab.
  • steatopygic — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
  • stepdancing — a dance emphasizing footwork or certain steps instead of other bodily gestures or movement
  • stereoptics — the branch of stereoscopy that is concerned with optics
  • stereotypic — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • sticky tape — adhesive strip
  • stringpiece — a long, usually horizontal piece of timber, beam, etc., for strengthening, connecting, or supporting a framework.
  • subjectship — the state of being a subject or citizen
  • superactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
  • superinfect — to infect further with an additional infection
  • superscript — Printing. superior (def 10).
  • supremacist — a person who believes in or advocates the supremacy of a particular group, especially a racial group: a white supremacist.
  • susceptible — admitting or capable of some specified treatment: susceptible of a high polish; susceptible to various interpretations.
  • suspectible — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
  • sympathetic — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
  • syncopative — relating to syncopation
  • teachership — a person who teaches or instructs, especially as a profession; instructor.
  • technophile — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
  • technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
  • tegucigalpa — a republic in NE Central America. 43,277 sq. mi. (112,087 sq. km). Capital: Tegucigalpa.
  • telegraphic — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • telescoping — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
  • telescopist — someone who is adept with a telescope
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