10-letter words containing p, i, s, e, a
- 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.
- separation — an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
- separatism — a person who separates, withdraws, or secedes, as from an established church.
- separatist — a person who separates, withdraws, or secedes, as from an established church.
- separative — tending to separate.
- separatrix — something that divides or separates, as the line between light and dark areas on a partially illuminated surface.
- septennial — occurring every seven years.
- septicemia — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
- septicidal — (of a capsule) dehiscing lengthwise along a septum.
- septuagint — the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been translated by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II: most scholars believe that only the Pentateuch was completed in the early part of the 3rd century b.c. and that the remaining books were translated in the next two centuries.
- serigraphy — a print made by the silkscreen process.
- sexpartite — divided into or consisting of six parts.
- shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
- sharpening — the act of making the edge of something very thin or of making its end pointed
- ship-bread — hardtack.
- shiplapped — of, related to, or resembling shiplap
- shipmaster — a person who commands a ship; master; captain.
- side plate — a small plate used for bread or other accompaniments to a meal
- silk paper — paper that contains silk fibers and is sometimes used for printing postage stamps and revenue stamps.
- 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.
- slash pine — a pine, Pinus elliotii, found in slashes and swamps in the southeastern U.S., yielding a hard, durable wood.
- slave ship — a ship for transporting slaves from their native homes to places of bondage.
- slavophile — a person who greatly admires the Slavs and Slavic ways.
- slip gauge — a very accurately ground block of hardened steel used to measure a gap with close accuracy: used mainly in tool-making and inspection
- slipstream — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- space suit — outfit worn by astronaut
- 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.
- spadiceous — Botany. of the nature of a spadix. bearing a spadix.
- spaniolize — to cause to become Spanish
- spare ribs — a cut of meat from the rib section, especially of pork or beef, with some meat adhering to the bones.
- spare time — leisure hours
- spare tire — a tire used or kept available as an emergency replacement on a vehicle.
- sparkliest — tending to sparkle; animated; lively: a row of sparkly cheerleaders.
- spattering — to scatter or dash in small particles or drops: The dog spattered mud on everyone when he shook himself.
- speakerine — a female television or radio announcer
- speakingly — in an eloquent manner
- spear side — the male side, or line of descent, of a family (opposed to distaff side or spindle side).
- spearpoint — the point at the end of a spearhead.
- 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.
- specialise — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- specialism — devotion or restriction to a particular pursuit, branch of study, etc.
- specialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
- speciality — specialty.
- specialize — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- 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.
- spectatrix — a female spectator