10-letter words containing e, s, m, p
- seamanship — knowledge and skill pertaining to the operation, navigation, management, safety, and maintenance of a ship.
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- semiopaque — partly or nearly opaque.
- 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.
- semipublic — partly or to some degree public.
- semisphere — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.
- sempstress — seamstress.
- separatism — a person who separates, withdraws, or secedes, as from an established church.
- septectomy — excision of part or all of a septum, especially the nasal septum.
- septennium — a period or cycle of seven years
- septicemia — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
- septicemic — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
- sheep farm — place where sheep are raised
- ship money — a tax levied to finance the fitting out of warships: abolished 1640
- shipmaster — a person who commands a ship; master; captain.
- shrimp net — a net for catching shrimps
- shrimplike — any of several small, long-tailed, chiefly marine crustaceans of the decapod suborder Natania, certain species of which are used as food.
- simferopol — a city in S Ukraine, on the S Crimean Peninsula.
- simon pure — real; genuine: a simon-pure accent.
- simon-pure — real; genuine: a simon-pure accent.
- simple arc — a curve that does not cross itself and has no points missing; a curve that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the closed interval from 0 to 1.
- simple vow — a public vow taken by a religious, under which property may be retained and marriage, though held to be illicit, is valid under canon law.
- simpleness — easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools.
- simplified — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- skepticism — skeptical attitude or temper; doubt.
- sketch map — a rough map of the principal features of a locale, as one drawn from memory.
- skeuomorph — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
- slipstream — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- slump test — a test to determine the relative water content of concrete, depending on the loss in height (slump) of a sample obtained from a cone-shaped mould
- smarten up — improve appearance
- smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smoke shop — a shop selling tobacco products.
- smokeproof — that cannot be penetrated by smoke: a fireproof and smokeproof compartment.
- smoothpate — a bald person with a smooth head
- smudge pot — a container for burning oil or other fuels to produce smudge, as for protecting fruit trees from frost.
- snmp agent — (networking) A software process that responds to queries using the Simple Network Management Protocol to provide status and statistics about a network node.
- so help me — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- somatotype — (of humans) physical type; physique.
- someplaces — somewhere
- space mark — a proofreader's symbol used to indicate the need to insert space, as between two typed or printed words that have been run together. Symbol: #.
- 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.
- spacewoman — a woman astronaut.
- spare room — guest bedroom
- spare time — leisure hours
- specialism — devotion or restriction to a particular pursuit, branch of study, etc.
- speciesism — discrimination in favor of one species, usually the human species, over another, especially in the exploitation or mistreatment of animals by humans.
- specmark89 — (benchmark) An old SPECmark benchmark result derived from a set of floating-point and integer benchmarks. It is the geometric mean of ten SPEC ratios of the outdated 1989 SPEC benchmark suite. The use of SPECmark89 is strongly discouraged, having been superseded by CINT92 and CFP92.
- speed bump — a rounded ridge built crosswise into the pavement of a road or driveway to force vehicles to slow down.
- speed hump — bump in road that slows traffic
- speed ramp — a raised band across a road, designed to make motorists reduce their speed, esp in built-up areas