10-letter words containing i, a, p, e
- spermatium — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
- spermatoid — resembling sperm.
- sphalerite — a very common mineral, zinc sulfide, ZnS, usually containing some iron and a little cadmium, occurring in yellow, brown, or black crystals or cleavable masses with resinous luster: the principal ore of zinc and cadmium; blackjack.
- sphenoidal — relating to the sphenoid bone
- spheroidal — pertaining to a spheroid or spheroids.
- spiculated — covered with spicules or needle-like
- spiflicate — to destroy; annihilate
- spinaceous — pertaining to or of the nature of spinach; belonging to the amaranth family of plants.
- spindleage — total number or capacity of spindles in a mill, area, etc.
- spinigrade — a type of spiny echinoderm
- spiralizer — a kitchen appliance for cutting vegetables into noodle-like strands
- spirantize — to change into or pronounce as a spirant.
- spitballer — a pitcher who is known or believed to throw spitballs.
- splenative — relating to the spleen or spleenful
- split cane — bamboo split into strips of triangular section, tapered, and glued to form a stiff but flexible hexagonal rod: used, esp formerly, for making fishing rods
- split page — (in a newspaper) a page replacing one of an earlier edition and containing chiefly the same material in altered form.
- split peas — peas that are dried and split and used in soups, pease pudding, or as a vegetable
- splittable — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- spoliative — blood-diminishing
- springdale — a city in NW Arkansas.
- springhare — a leaping and burrowing rodent, Pedetes capensis, native to southern Africa, having kangaroolike legs and long, pointed ears.
- springhead — a spring or fountainhead from which a stream flows.
- stair-step — to move or progress in steps of increasing height or level
- stairsteps — a flight of steps
- staphyline — having a form resembling a bunch of grapes
- star prize — The star prize in a competition is the most valuable prize.
- stenopaeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
- step aside — move to one side
- stepfamily — a family composed of a parent, a stepparent, and a child or children by a previous marriage.
- stephanite — a mineral, silver antimony sulfide, Ag 5 SbS 4 : an ore of silver.
- 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.
- stipulated — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- strike pay — strike benefit.
- strippable — Mining. of or relating to ore or coal that can be produced by strip mining.
- striptease — a burlesque act in which a dancer removes garments one at a time to the accompaniment of music.
- subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
- subprimate — a primitive variety of primate
- sugar pine — a tall pine, Pinus lambertiana, of California, Oregon, etc., having cones 20 inches (51 cm) long.
- sulphatise — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
- superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
- superbrain — (computer) A personal computer released in 1980 by Intertec. The Superbrain had two Z80A microprocessors running at 4 MHz, one for the main processing and the other for peripheral activities. It had an integrated keyboard and display. It was sold with the CP/M operating system, Microsoft Basic, an 8080 assembler and Microsoft Cobol 74. The base model, the "Superbrain 10", had no drives, only a network connection. Other models added one or two 5" floppy disc units. The "Jr" had 170K drives (single-sided), the "QD" had 340 KB drives (double-sided) and the "SD" had 780k. Intertec did not sell or support a hard drive or an S-100 bus for these machines. The network version of the SuperBrain was called CompuStar. The network was a large gray parallel cable. CompuStar had three "file servers" that accepted up to 255 machines. These were the "DSS-10" with a 10MB 8" Winchester drive; the "CDC" with 96MB consisting of 80MB fixed and a 16MB removable platter; and the "Priam" with a 144MB 14" platter winchester. Intertec manufactured the controllers for the last two and an enclosure and power supply for the Priam. CDC had to go on-site to install the 96MB. The SuperBrain was succeeded in 1982 by the SuperBrain II.
- supercilia — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
- supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
- superpaint — (graphics) A pioneering graphics program and framebuffer computer system developed by Richard Shoup at Xerox PARC. Design started in 1972 and the system produced its first stable image in April 1973. SuperPaint was one of the first computers used for creative work, video editing and animation, all which would become major sections within the entertainment industry and major components of industrial design. SuperPaint had a graphical user interface and could capture images from video input or combine them with digital data. SuperPaint was the first program with features such as changing hue, saturation and value, a colour palette, custom polygons and lines, virtual paintbrushes and pencils, auto-filling of images and anti-aliasing.
- suppliance — appeal; entreaty; plea; supplication: He knelt in an attitude of suppliance.
- supplicate — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
- supragenic — beyond the limits or above the level of genes.
- swipe card — a plastic card with magnetically encoded data that is decoded when passed through a slotted electronic reader, especially for payment or identification purposes.
- sympathies — harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
- sympathise — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).