10-letter words containing p, e, a, m
- roman pace — an ancient Roman unit of measurement, equal to 5 Roman feet or about 58 U.S. inches (147 cm).
- rope maker — a craftsman who makes ropes
- ropemaking — the act, skill, or process of fabricating rope.
- rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
- sachemship — the office of a sachem
- sapperment — a German oath
- scampering — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- seamanship — knowledge and skill pertaining to the operation, navigation, management, safety, and maintenance of a ship.
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- semiopaque — partly or nearly opaque.
- semipostal — a postage stamp sold by a government at a premium above its face value, the excess being used for a nonpostal purpose, as a charity.
- separatism — a person who separates, withdraws, or secedes, as from an established church.
- septicemia — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
- sheep farm — place where sheep are raised
- shipmaster — a person who commands a ship; master; captain.
- 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.
- sketch map — a rough map of the principal features of a locale, as one drawn from memory.
- slipstream — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- smarten up — improve appearance
- smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smoothpate — a bald person with a smooth head
- snmp agent — (networking) A software process that responds to queries using the Simple Network Management Protocol to provide status and statistics about a network node.
- somatotype — (of humans) physical type; physique.
- someplaces — somewhere
- space mark — a proofreader's symbol used to indicate the need to insert space, as between two typed or printed words that have been run together. Symbol: #.
- 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.
- spacewoman — a woman astronaut.
- spare room — guest bedroom
- spare time — leisure hours
- specialism — devotion or restriction to a particular pursuit, branch of study, etc.
- specmark89 — (benchmark) An old SPECmark benchmark result derived from a set of floating-point and integer benchmarks. It is the geometric mean of ten SPEC ratios of the outdated 1989 SPEC benchmark suite. The use of SPECmark89 is strongly discouraged, having been superseded by CINT92 and CFP92.
- speed ramp — a raised band across a road, designed to make motorists reduce their speed, esp in built-up areas
- sperm bank — a repository for storing sperm and keeping it viable under scientifically controlled conditions prior to its use in artificial insemination.
- 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.
- spermaduct — a spermatic passage found in male animals
- spermarium — the sperm gland
- spermatial — relating to the male reproductive cells of certain red algae and fungi
- spermatium — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
- spermatoid — resembling sperm.
- sphenogram — a cuneiform character.
- spy camera — a hidden, disguised or miniature camera used in espionage
- stampeders — a sudden, frenzied rush or headlong flight of a herd of frightened animals, especially cattle or horses.
- statampere — the electrostatic unit of current, equivalent to 3.3356 × 10 −10 ampere and equal to the current produced by an electromotive force of one statvolt acting through a resistance of one statohm.
- steam trap — a device in a steam pipe that collects and discharges condensed water
- steam-punk — a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy featuring advanced machines and other technology based on steam power of the 19th century and taking place in a recognizable historical period or a fantasy world.
- steamed up — obscured by vapour
- stepfamily — a family composed of a parent, a stepparent, and a child or children by a previous marriage.
- stop-frame — Also called stop frame. the process of filming puppets and other objects one frame at a time while incrementally moving or modifying them, giving the illusion of lifelike motion when the captured film frames are viewed in rapid sequence (often used attributively): stop-motion animation; a stop-motion film.
- street map — A street map is a map of a town or city, showing the positions and names of all the streets.
- streetlamp — light mounted on a post in street