10-letter words containing p, o, t, c
- rock plant — a plant found among rocks or in rock gardens.
- rock tripe — any lichen of the genus Umbilicaria.
- root crops — crops, such as turnips or beets, cultivated for the food value of their roots
- scatophagy — the act of eating dung or excrement
- scatoscopy — examination of the feces for diagnostic purposes.
- 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
- scout camp — organized outdoor activity for boys
- scriptoria — a room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied.
- 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)
- septectomy — excision of part or all of a septum, especially the nasal septum.
- silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
- slop chest — a supply of clothing, boots, tobacco, and other personal goods for sale to the crew of a ship during a voyage.
- slow pitch — a variety of softball in which the ball is pitched with an underhand motion at moderate speed in an arc that rises at least six feet above the ground
- slow-pitch — a type of softball with ten players per side and in which each pitch must travel in an arc from three to ten feet high.
- sociopathy — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- soul patch — a small patch of facial hair below the centre of the lower lip and above the chin
- space shot — the launch of a spacecraft and its subsequent flight in space
- spaced out — dazed or stupefied because of the influence of narcotic drugs.
- spaced-out — dazed or stupefied because of the influence of narcotic drugs.
- spatchcock — a fowl that has been dressed and split open for grilling.
- 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.
- 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