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10-letter words containing n, a, p, i, e, s

  • separation — an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
  • septennial — occurring every seven years.
  • septuagint — the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been translated by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II: most scholars believe that only the Pentateuch was completed in the early part of the 3rd century b.c. and that the remaining books were translated in the next two centuries.
  • shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
  • sharpening — the act of making the edge of something very thin or of making its end pointed
  • slash pine — a pine, Pinus elliotii, found in slashes and swamps in the southeastern U.S., yielding a hard, durable wood.
  • spaniolize — to cause to become Spanish
  • spattering — to scatter or dash in small particles or drops: The dog spattered mud on everyone when he shook himself.
  • speakerine — a female television or radio announcer
  • speakingly — in an eloquent manner
  • spearpoint — the point at the end of a spearhead.
  • 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.
  • spectating — to participate as a spectator, as at a horse race.
  • spencerian — pertaining to or characteristic of a system of penmanship, characterized by clear, rounded letters slanting to the right.
  • spenserian — of or characteristic of Spenser or his work.
  • sphenoidal — relating to the sphenoid bone
  • 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
  • spirantize — to change into or pronounce as a spirant.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • staphyline — having a form resembling a bunch of grapes
  • stenopaeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
  • stephanite — a mineral, silver antimony sulfide, Ag 5 SbS 4 : an ore of silver.
  • sugar pine — a tall pine, Pinus lambertiana, of California, Oregon, etc., having cones 20 inches (51 cm) long.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • supragenic — beyond the limits or above the level of genes.
  • tenantship — the state of being a tenant
  • transpired — to occur; happen; take place.
  • transpires — to occur; happen; take place.
  • trapessing — to walk over; tramp: to traipse the fields.
  • trappiness — the state of being trappy
  • twin peaks — a mountain in central Idaho: highest peak in the Salmon River Mountains. 10,340 feet (3154 meters).
  • tympanites — distention of the abdominal wall, as in peritonitis, caused by the accumulation of gas or air in the intestine or peritoneal cavity.
  • unapprised — not informed or apprised of something
  • uniseptate — Biology. having only one septum or partition, as a silicle.
  • unparadise — to deprive of or expel from paradise
  • unplausive — not applauding; disapproving
  • unpleasing — not pleasing
  • unprisable — not able to be prised or released from a grip
  • upheapings — acts or instances of heaping up
  • usucapient — (of property) in possession of: occupying
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