10-letter words containing o, s, e, t, i, c
- semiotical — of or relating to signs.
- siderocyte — an erythrocyte that contains iron in forms other than hematin.
- silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
- skeletonic — resembling a skeleton
- 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.
- solicitude — the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
- solonetzic — characteristic of solonetz
- somaticize — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
- 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.
- spot price — the price of spot goods or of commodities on the spot market.
- 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.
- stockiness — the quality of being stocky
- stockinged — a close-fitting covering for the foot and part of the leg, usually knitted, of wool, cotton, nylon, silk, or similar material.
- stockinger — a person who knits on a stocking frame
- stockrider — a cowboy.
- stop price — the price at which a stop order is activated.
- subjection — the act of subjecting.
- subsection — a part or division of a section.
- subsociety — a subdivision of a society
- supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
- surjection — onto function.
- switcheroo — an unexpected or sudden change or reversal in attitude, character, position, action, etc.
- switchover — the act or process of changing from one power source, system, etc., to another.
- teichopsia — a temporary visual impairment associated with migraine
- teinoscope — an optical device employing prisms to correct the chromatic aberration of light
- telescopic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a telescope.
- tesla coil — an air-core transformer used to produce high voltages of high-frequency alternating currents.
- the comics — the comic strips in newspapers, etc
- theocritus — flourished c270 b.c, Greek poet.
- theoretics — the theoretical or speculative part of a science or subject.
- thermotics — the scientific study of heat
- tiliaceous — belonging to the Tiliaceae, the linden family of plants.
- tom cruise — Tom (Thomas Cruise Mapother, 4th) born 1962, U.S. film actor.
- toric lens — a lens used to correct astigmatism, having one of its surfaces shaped like part of a torus so that its focal lengths are different in different meridians
- tossicated — drunk or intoxicated; confused
- trichinose — to infest with parasitic worms (trichinae)
- tricostate — having three ribs, costae, or raised lines.
- tricoteuse — a woman who knits, with reference to women who sat and witnessed the public executions taking place during the French Revolution
- triniscope — an early television with three tubes projecting the three primary colours
- trioecious — of or relating to a species having male, female, and hermaphrodite flowers on different plants.
- trisection — to divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts.
- triticeous — used to refer to specific small rounded structures of tissue or cartilage, resembling grains of wheat, sometimes found in the area near the larynx and the base of the tongue
- uncloister — to free from confinement of any kind
- undomestic — not domestic; not skilled in domestic tasks or housework