10-letter words containing e, s, p, c
- shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
- sheep race — a single-file walkway for sheep at the entrance to a sheep-dip
- sheep tick — a wingless, bloodsucking, dipterous insect, Melophagus ovinus, that is parasitic on sheep.
- sheeptrack — a small natural terrace on a hillside
- show-place — an estate, mansion, or the like, usually open to the public, renowned for its beauty, excellent design and workmanship, historical interest, etc.
- shower cap — a plastic cap worn in the shower to keep the hair dry
- silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
- 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.
- skepticism — skeptical attitude or temper; doubt.
- sketch map — a rough map of the principal features of a locale, as one drawn from memory.
- skyscraper — a relatively tall building of many stories, especially one for office or commercial use.
- slop chest — a supply of clothing, boots, tobacco, and other personal goods for sale to the crew of a ship during a voyage.
- snaphaunce — an early flintlock mechanism for igniting a charge of gunpowder in a gun.
- snow-creep — a continuous, slow, downhill movement of snow.
- snowcapped — topped with snow: the snowcapped Alps.
- soil creep — creep of soil on even slopes; often accelerated by spring freeze-and-thaw or general periglacial conditions. Compare creep (def 22a).
- someplaces — somewhere
- sophoclean — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
- soundscape — the component sounds of an environment.
- space junk — objects such as artificial satellites, material discarded from space stations, etc that remain in space after use
- 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 rate — a unit of compensation for written work, based on the amount of space that the submitted material occupies in print, and usually computed in column inches.
- space shoe — a custom shoe molded to the contours of the wearer's foot
- space shot — the launch of a spacecraft and its subsequent flight in space
- space suit — outfit worn by astronaut
- space walk — When an astronaut goes on a space walk, he or she leaves the spacecraft and works outside it while floating in space.
- 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.
- spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
- spacecraft — a vehicle designed for travel or operation in space beyond the earth's atmosphere or in orbit around the earth.
- spaced out — dazed or stupefied because of the influence of narcotic drugs.
- spaced-out — dazed or stupefied because of the influence of narcotic drugs.
- spacewoman — a woman astronaut.
- spadiceous — Botany. of the nature of a spadix. bearing a spadix.
- spec cfp92 — (benchmark) A benchmark suite from SPEC containing 14 programs performing floating-point computations. 12 are written in Fortran and two in C. They can be used to estimate the performance of CPU, memory system, and compiler code generation. The individual programs are Circuit Design, Simulation (2x), Quantum Chemistry (3x), Electromagnetism, Geometric Translation, Optics, Robotics, Medical Simulation, Quantum Physics, Astrophysics, NASA Kernels. The benchmark suite can be used either for speed measurement, resulting in SPEC ratios, or for throughput measurement, resulting in SPEC rates
- 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.
- spec sheet — a list describing the specifications of a product or property that is for sale
- specialise — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- specialism — devotion or restriction to a particular pursuit, branch of study, etc.
- specialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
- speciality — specialty.
- specialize — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- 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.
- speciesism — discrimination in favor of one species, usually the human species, over another, especially in the exploitation or mistreatment of animals by humans.
- speciocide — the elimination of an entire species
- speciosity — the quality or state of being specious.
- speciously — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
- 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.
- spectacled — wearing spectacles.
- spectacles — anything presented to the sight or view, especially something of a striking or impressive kind: The stars make a fine spectacle tonight.
- spectating — to participate as a spectator, as at a horse race.