10-letter words containing p, o, s, t, c
- 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.
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- 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.
- spitchcock — an eel that is split, cut into pieces, and broiled or fried.
- sporocytes — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sport coat — A sport coat is a man's jacket. It is worn on informal occasions with pants of a different material.
- sports cap — a hat designed for sports or to look sporty
- sports car — small, low, fast car
- sportscast — a radio or television program consisting of sports news or of a running description of a sports event.
- spot check — impromptu inspection
- spot price — the price of spot goods or of commodities on the spot market.
- spot-check — to examine or investigate by means of a spot check.
- statoscope — an aneroid barometer for registering minute variations of atmospheric pressure.
- 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.
- stock whip — a whip with a long lash and a short handle, as used to herd cattle
- stop codon — a codon that stops the synthesis of a protein molecule.
- stop price — the price at which a stop order is activated.
- subcompact — an automobile that is smaller than a compact.
- suboctuple — in the proportion or ratio of one to eight
- subpotency — a condition of reduced potency, as of a medication.
- subproduct — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
- subproject — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- subtropics — the region lying between the tropics and temperate lands
- suck up to — to flatter for one's own profit; toady
- superscout — a highly skilled scout
- superstock — an exceptionally lucrative investment
- supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
- supraoptic — above the optic chiasm
- swampscott — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- syncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
- 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.
- top secret — highly confidential, restricted
- top-secret — bearing the classification top-secret, the highest level of classified information.
- tophaceous — a calcareous concretion formed in the soft tissue about a joint, in the pinna of the ear, etc., especially in gout; a gouty deposit.
- toponymics — the study of place-names
- torpescent — becoming torpid
- triniscope — an early television with three tubes projecting the three primary colours
- truck stop — a gas station, usually at the side of a major highway, where truck drivers stop for fuel, and often including a restaurant, sleeping and showering rooms, a store selling basic items, etc.
- typhaceous — belonging to the family of flowering plants Typhaceae
- whipstocks — Plural form of whipstock.
- zooplastic — the transplantation of living tissue to the human body from an animal of another species.