10-letter words containing p, e, n, c
- receipting — a written acknowledgment of having received, or taken into one's possession, a specified amount of money, goods, etc.
- rechipping — action of changing the electronic identity of a stolen mobile phone
- recipience — the act of receiving; reception.
- recipiency — the act of receiving; reception.
- recompense — to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
- recoupment — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
- red-pencil — to delete, censor, correct, or abridge (written material) with or as if with a pencil having a red lead: His book was heavily red-penciled before it got clearance.
- repellance — the act of repelling; a repellent quality or trait, repellence
- repellence — to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
- repellency — to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
- repentance — deep sorrow, compunction, or contrition for a past sin, wrongdoing, or the like.
- reprobance — reprobation.
- republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- repugnance — the state of being repugnant.
- repugnancy — the state of being repugnant.
- respectant — aspectant.
- respecting — regarding; concerning.
- rhinoscope — a special instrument used to examine the nasal passages
- roman pace — an ancient Roman unit of measurement, equal to 5 Roman feet or about 58 U.S. inches (147 cm).
- ropedancer — a person who walks across or performs acrobatics upon a rope stretched at some height above the floor or ground.
- sand perch — squirrelfish.
- saprogenic — producing putrefaction or decay, as certain bacteria.
- sarcopenia — reduction in muscle tissue as a result of ageing
- 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.
- scoop neck — a round, usually low, neckline on a dress, blouse, etc.
- 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
- screenplay — a motion-picture or television scenario.
- 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.
- scunthorpe — a town in E England, in North Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire: developed rapidly after the discovery of local iron ore in the late 19th century; iron and steel industries have declined. Pop: 72 660 (2001)
- sevenpence — a monetary sum equal to seven pennies
- shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
- silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
- snaphaunce — an early flintlock mechanism for igniting a charge of gunpowder in a gun.
- snow-creep — a continuous, slow, downhill movement of snow.
- snowcapped — topped with snow: the snowcapped Alps.
- sophoclean — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
- soundscape — the component sounds of an environment.
- space junk — objects such as artificial satellites, material discarded from space stations, etc that remain in space after use
- spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
- spacewoman — a woman astronaut.
- 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.
- spinaceous — pertaining to or of the nature of spinach; belonging to the amaranth family of plants.
- spinescent — Botany. becoming spinelike. ending in a spine. bearing spines.
- 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