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10-letter words containing p, e, r, c, t, i

  • receptible — adapted to or suitable for reception.
  • redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
  • replicator — Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.
  • respecting — regarding; concerning.
  • respective — pertaining individually or severally to each of a number of persons, things, etc.; particular: I will now discuss the respective merits of the candidates.
  • rheopectic — the property exhibited by certain slow-gelling, thixotropic sols of gelling more rapidly when the containing vessel is shaken gently.
  • rock tripe — any lichen of the genus Umbilicaria.
  • 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.
  • spectatrix — a female spectator
  • 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.
  • sphericity — a spherical state or form.
  • 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.
  • stop price — the price at which a stop order is activated.
  • superbitch — an exceptionally spiteful woman, a very bitchy person
  • superthick — extremely thick
  • supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
  • taperstick — a candlestick designed to hold tapers.
  • tapescript — a recording of the spoken word on tape or a transcript of this
  • tcherepninAlexander (Aleksandr Nikolaevich) 1899–1977, Russian pianist and composer, in the U.S.
  • telecopier — a fax machine
  • telescript — A communications-oriented programming language using "active software agents", released by General Magic in 1994. What PostScript did for cross-platform, device-independent documents, Telescript aims to do for cross-platform, network-independent messaging. Telescript protects programmers from many of the complexities of network protocols.
  • the prince — a treatise on statecraft (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli.
  • the-prince — a treatise on statecraft (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli.
  • theophoric — having the name of a god embedded in something, such as a name
  • thrippence — threepence.
  • trickle-up — noting or pertaining to the theory that monetary benefits directed toward small businesses and the poor will gradually pass up to big business and the rich.
  • triniscope — an early television with three tubes projecting the three primary colours
  • triple sec — a type of curaçao liqueur.
  • triplicate — one of three identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
  • turcophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
  • typescript — a typewritten copy of a literary composition, document, or the like, especially as prepared for a printer.
  • underpitch — of or relating to a type of groin-vaulted ceiling construction
  • unit price — rate1 (def 3).
  • unscripted — not scripted; lacking a script: an unscripted idea for a movie.
  • voice part — the melody or succession of tones for one of the voices or instruments in a harmonic or concerted composition.
  • voiceprint — a graphic representation of a person's voice, showing the component frequencies as analyzed by a sound spectrograph.
  • w particle — either of two types of charged intermediate vector bosons, one having a positive charge and the other a negative charge. Symbols: W + , W −.
  • what price — You use what price in front of a word or expression that refers to something happening when you want to ask how likely it is to happen. You usually do this to emphasize either that it is very likely or very unlikely.
  • xenotropic — (of a virus) able to replicate only in a different animal species from the host
  • xerophytic — (botany) Of, pertaining to, or being a xerophyte.
  • z particle — one of three particles, called intermediate vector bosons, that are believed to transmit the weak force. Symbol: Z 0.
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