10-letter words containing i, c, e, p
- rice paper — a thin paper made from the straw of rice, as in China.
- riflescope — a telescopic sight mounted on top of a rifle that helps to improve one's aim by magnifying and pinpointing a target.
- riverscape — a view, painting, etc., of a river and the land surrounding or adjacent to it.
- rock tripe — any lichen of the genus Umbilicaria.
- sachemship — the office of a sachem
- sale price — discounted cost
- saprogenic — producing putrefaction or decay, as certain bacteria.
- sarcopenia — reduction in muscle tissue as a result of ageing
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- scaloppine — scallops, especially of veal, flattened by pounding and usually dredged in flour or breadcrumbs and sautéed quickly: scaloppine alla Marsala.
- scampering — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- scepticism — skeptical attitude or temper; doubt.
- schipperke — one of a Belgian breed of small dogs having erect ears and a thick, black coat, originally used as a watchdog on boats in the Netherlands and Belgium.
- scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
- scots pine — a coniferous tree, Pinus sylvestris, of Europe and W and N Asia, having blue-green needle-like leaves and brown cones with a small prickle on each scale: a valuable timber tree
- screw pile — a pile that is used for the foundations of bridges, lighthouses, etc., and has a screwlike lower end for drilling through and taking firm hold in compacted material.
- screw pine — any tropical Asian tree or shrub of the genus Pandanus, having a palmlike or branched stem, long, narrow, rigid, spirally arranged leaves and aerial roots, and bearing an edible fruit.
- scrimpness — sparingness
- scrub pine — any of several pines, as the jack pine, characterized by a scrubby or irregular manner of growth, usually found in dry, sandy soil.
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- semipublic — partly or to some degree public.
- septicemia — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
- septicemic — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
- septicidal — (of a capsule) dehiscing lengthwise along a septum.
- shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
- sheep tick — a wingless, bloodsucking, dipterous insect, Melophagus ovinus, that is parasitic on sheep.
- 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.
- soil creep — creep of soil on even slopes; often accelerated by spring freeze-and-thaw or general periglacial conditions. Compare creep (def 22a).
- space suit — outfit worn by astronaut
- 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.
- spadiceous — Botany. of the nature of a spadix. bearing a spadix.
- 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.
- 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.
- spectating — to participate as a spectator, as at a horse race.
- spectatrix — a female spectator
- spencerian — pertaining to or characteristic of a system of penmanship, characterized by clear, rounded letters slanting to the right.
- spermaceti — a pearly white, waxy, translucent solid, obtained from the oil in the head of the sperm whale: used chiefly in cosmetics and candles, and as an emollient.
- spermicide — a sperm-killing agent, especially a commercial birth-control preparation, usually a cream or jelly.
- sphericity — a spherical state or form.