10-letter words containing e, r, i, c, s, o
- saprogenic — producing putrefaction or decay, as certain bacteria.
- sarcodines — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- sarcopenia — reduction in muscle tissue as a result of ageing
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- sclerotial — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- sclerotium — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- sclerotize — to harden and darken (an insect's cuticle)
- scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
- scrobicule — a small pit, for example around one of a sea urchin's nodules
- scrollwise — like a scroll, in a way similar to a scroll
- seborrheic — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
- securiform — (of plants) having the shape of an axe
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- semichorus — half of a chorus; part of a chorus to be sung by a portion but not all of the singers
- seriocomic — partly serious and partly comic: a seriocomic play.
- siderocyte — an erythrocyte that contains iron in forms other than hematin.
- socdoliger — a conclusive argument, a hard blow
- socializer — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- sociometry — the measurement of attitudes of social acceptance or rejection through expressed preferences among members of a social grouping.
- sock-liner — a thin piece of material, as leather, that is laid on top of the insole of a shoe, boot, or other footwear.
- soil creep — creep of soil on even slopes; often accelerated by spring freeze-and-thaw or general periglacial conditions. Compare creep (def 22a).
- soricident — having shrewlike teeth
- sororicide — a person who kills his or her sister.
- 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.
- 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.
- sporogenic — relating to the production or formation of spores, or producing spores
- spot price — the price of spot goods or of commodities on the spot market.
- stockinger — a person who knits on a stocking frame
- stockrider — a cowboy.
- stop price — the price at which a stop order is activated.
- subofficer — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
- supermicro — the fastest and most powerful type of microcomputer, with capabilities more commonly associated with minicomputers.
- supersonic — greater than the speed of sound waves through air.
- supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
- surjection — onto function.
- switcheroo — an unexpected or sudden change or reversal in attitude, character, position, action, etc.
- switchover — the act or process of changing from one power source, system, etc., to another.
- theocritus — flourished c270 b.c, Greek poet.
- theoretics — the theoretical or speculative part of a science or subject.
- thermotics — the scientific study of heat
- tom cruise — Tom (Thomas Cruise Mapother, 4th) born 1962, U.S. film actor.
- toric lens — a lens used to correct astigmatism, having one of its surfaces shaped like part of a torus so that its focal lengths are different in different meridians
- trichinose — to infest with parasitic worms (trichinae)
- tricostate — having three ribs, costae, or raised lines.
- tricoteuse — a woman who knits, with reference to women who sat and witnessed the public executions taking place during the French Revolution
- triniscope — an early television with three tubes projecting the three primary colours
- trioecious — of or relating to a species having male, female, and hermaphrodite flowers on different plants.
- trisection — to divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts.
- triticeous — used to refer to specific small rounded structures of tissue or cartilage, resembling grains of wheat, sometimes found in the area near the larynx and the base of the tongue
- uncloister — to free from confinement of any kind