10-letter words containing e, p, i, s, c
- cutesy pie — darling; sweetheart; sweetie (often used as a term of endearment).
- deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- deceptions — Plural form of deception.
- deceptious — relating to deception or inclined to deceive
- depictions — representation in image form, as in a painting or illustration: Picasso's painting Guernica is an accurate depiction of the horrors of war.
- desciption — Misspelling of description.
- descriptor — a word or phrase which constitutes the descriptive element of a sentence
- desipience — folly; silliness
- despective — Disparaging, derogatory; looking down upon.
- despicable — If you say that a person or action is despicable, you are emphasizing that they are extremely nasty, cruel, or evil.
- despicably — deserving to be despised, or regarded with distaste, disgust, or disdain; contemptible: He was a mean, despicable man, who treated his wife and children badly.
- despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- discipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- discompose — to upset the order of; disarrange; disorder; unsettle: The breeze discomposed the bouquet.
- discophile — a person who studies and collects phonograph records, especially those of a rare or specialized nature.
- discrepant — (usually of two or more objects, accounts, findings etc.) differing; disagreeing; inconsistent: discrepant accounts.
- disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
- disk space — a number of bytes on a disk for the storage of data
- disparency — (proscribed) A significant discrepancy.
- dispatched — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
- dispatches — Plural form of dispatch.
- dispencing — Present participle of dispence.
- displacive — That involves or causes displacement.
- disprinced — rendered unprincely
- disrespect — Lack of respect or courtesy.
- docentship — privatdocent.
- duplicates — Plural form of duplicate.
- ecmascript — (language) (ECMA standard 262, ISO standard 16262) The standardised version of the core JavaScript language.
- ecospecies — a taxon consisting of one or more interbreeding ecotypes: equivalent to a taxonomic species.
- ecphonesis — the use of an exclamatory phrase, as in “O tempore! O mores!”.
- ecthlipsis — loss of a consonant, especially, in Latin, loss of a final m before a word beginning with a vowel or h.
- eigenspace — (linear algebra) A set of the eigenvectors associated with a particular eigenvalue, together with the zero vector.
- ekphrastic — Pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid.
- emacs lisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp used to implement the higher layers of the Free Software Foundation's editor, GNU Emacs. Sometimes abbreviated to "elisp". An enormous number of Emacs Lisp packages have been written including modes for editing many programming languages and interfaces to many Unix programs.
- emancipist — (Australia, historical) In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict who had been pardoned for good conduct; sometimes inclusively a convict whose sentence had completed, though one such was more usually called an expiree.
- emphysemic — Relating to emphysema.
- 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.
- encopresis — Involuntary defecation, especially associated with emotional disturbance or psychiatric disorder.
- endoscopic — Of, or relating to endoscopy or an endoscope.
- epiblastic — Of, or relating to the epiblast.
- epicalyces — Plural form of epicalyx.
- epicalyxes — Plural form of epicalyx.
- epicanthus — (anatomy) A skin fold of the upper eyelid, typical to East Asians.
- epicenters — Plural form of epicenter.
- epicentres — Plural form of epicentre.
- epicureans — Plural form of epicurean.
- epigastric — Of or pertaining to the epigastrium.
- epileptics — Plural form of epileptic.