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10-letter words containing e, p, i, s, t, o

  • seal-point — a Siamese cat having a fawn-colored body and dark-brown points.
  • semipostal — a postage stamp sold by a government at a premium above its face value, the excess being used for a nonpostal purpose, as a charity.
  • separation — an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
  • septillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 24 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 42 zeros.
  • sextonship — the office of a sexton
  • shopfitter — a worker who makes and installs fittings for commercial premises
  • shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
  • signposted — A place or route that is signposted has signposts beside the road to show the way.
  • silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
  • spearpoint — the point at the end of a spearhead.
  • 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.
  • speciation — the formation of new species as a result of geographic, physiological, anatomical, or behavioral factors that prevent previously interbreeding populations from breeding with each other.
  • speciosity — the quality or state of being specious.
  • spermatoid — resembling sperm.
  • spiderwort — any plant of the genus Tradescantia, having blue, purple, or rose-colored flowers.
  • spirochete — 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.
  • spirometer — an instrument for determining the capacity of the lungs.
  • spirometry — an instrument for determining the capacity of the lungs.
  • spoliative — blood-diminishing
  • sporozoite — one of the minute, active bodies into which the spore of certain Sporozoa divides, each developing into an adult individual.
  • sportiness — flashy; showy.
  • spot price — the price of spot goods or of commodities on the spot market.
  • stenopaeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
  • stenotopic — (of an animal or plant) able to tolerate only small environmental changes.
  • step on it — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
  • stereopair — a pair of photographs of the same area taken from slightly different positions so as to give a stereoscopic effect when properly mounted and viewed.
  • stereopsis — stereoscopic vision; the ability to perceive depth.
  • stone pine — Also called umbrella pine, parasol pine. a tree, Pinus pinea, native to southern Europe, having branches forming an umbrellalike crown and bearing edible, nutlike seeds.
  • stop price — the price at which a stop order is activated.
  • stovepipes — a pipe, as of sheet metal, serving as a stove chimney or to connect a stove with a chimney flue.
  • strepitoso — (to be performed) boisterously
  • strepitous — boisterous; noisy.
  • strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
  • subpontine — of or relating to the Pontine Marshes.
  • subreption — Canon Law. a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant. Compare obreption (def 1).
  • superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
  • supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
  • suppletion — the use in inflection or derivation of an allomorph that is not related in form to the primary allomorph of a morpheme, as the use of better as the comparative of good.
  • supportive — giving support.
  • symptomize — to be a symptom or sign of.
  • teichopsia — a temporary visual impairment associated with migraine
  • teinoscope — an optical device employing prisms to correct the chromatic aberration of light
  • telescopic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a telescope.
  • teliospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
  • test pilot — a pilot employed to test-fly newly-built aircraft.
  • tetrapolis — a conglomeration of four cities
  • theophilus — a walled plain in the 4th quadrant of the face of the moon: about 65 miles (105 km) in diameter.
  • thesprotia — an ancient coastal district in SW Epirus.
  • torpedoist — a person in favour of the use of torpedoes or a person knowledgeable about torpedoes
  • triniscope — an early television with three tubes projecting the three primary colours
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