10-letter words containing o, s, c, i, t
- sclerotize — to harden and darken (an insect's cuticle)
- scotodinia — a dizziness accompanied by a headache and disturbed vision
- 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
- scotticism — a word or idiom peculiar to or characteristic of Scots.
- scriptoria — a room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied.
- scrutinous — strict, thorough
- sectioning — a part that is cut off or separated.
- sectionize — to form or divide into sections
- see action — to participate in military combat
- semeiotics — semiotics.
- semiotical — of or relating to signs.
- shift lock — a typewriter or computer key that locks the shift key in depressed position.
- siderocyte — an erythrocyte that contains iron in forms other than hematin.
- silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
- sioux city — a port in W Iowa, on the Missouri River.
- skeletonic — resembling a skeleton
- slow pitch — a variety of softball in which the ball is pitched with an underhand motion at moderate speed in an arc that rises at least six feet above the ground
- slow-pitch — a type of softball with ten players per side and in which each pitch must travel in an arc from three to ten feet high.
- societally — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- sociometry — the measurement of attitudes of social acceptance or rejection through expressed preferences among members of a social grouping.
- sociopathy — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- sock it to — to make a forceful impression on
- sodcasting — the practice of playing music through the speakers of a mobile phone in a public space
- soil stack — a vertical soil pipe.
- solicitant — a solicitor
- soliciting — to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.
- solicitous — anxious or concerned (usually followed by about, for, etc., or a clause): solicitous about a person's health.
- solicitude — the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
- solonetzic — characteristic of solonetz
- solvolytic — relating to solvolysis
- somali cat — a breed of cat with medium-length silky hair, large ears, and a bushy tail
- somaticize — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
- sonication — a treatment using ultrasound
- soricident — having shrewlike teeth
- 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.
- 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.
- speciosity — the quality or state of being specious.
- spirochete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
- spitchcock — an eel that is split, cut into pieces, and broiled or fried.
- spot price — the price of spot goods or of commodities on the spot market.
- stanchions — an upright bar, beam, post, or support, as in a window, stall, ship, etc.
- staycation — a vacation spent at home or near home, doing enjoyable activities or visiting local attractions.
- stenopaeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
- stenotopic — (of an animal or plant) able to tolerate only small environmental changes.
- stiacciato — a flat or low relief popular with 15th- and 16th-century Italian sculptors
- sticharion — a white tunic of silk or linen, corresponding to the alb, worn by deacons, priests, and bishops.
- stichology — metrical theory or the science of poetic metres
- stick down — seal with an adhesive
- stitchwork — embroidery or needlework.
- stitchwort — any of several plants belonging to the genus Stellaria, of the pink family, having white flowers.