10-letter words containing p, r, a, e, c
- space rate — a unit of compensation for written work, based on the amount of space that the submitted material occupies in print, and usually computed in column inches.
- spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
- spacecraft — a vehicle designed for travel or operation in space beyond the earth's atmosphere or in orbit around the earth.
- 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.
- specmark89 — (benchmark) An old SPECmark benchmark result derived from a set of floating-point and integer benchmarks. It is the geometric mean of ten SPEC ratios of the outdated 1989 SPEC benchmark suite. The use of SPECmark89 is strongly discouraged, having been superseded by CINT92 and CFP92.
- spectatrix — a female spectator
- spectrally — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- spencerian — pertaining to or characteristic of a system of penmanship, characterized by clear, rounded letters slanting to the right.
- 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.
- spermaduct — a spermatic passage found in male animals
- spore case — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- spy camera — a hidden, disguised or miniature camera used in espionage
- spycatcher — a person who works in counterintelligence to detect enemy espionage activities
- stepdancer — a person who engages in stepdancing
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- superacute — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- supercargo — a merchant-ship officer who is in charge of the cargo and the commercial concerns of the voyage.
- supercilia — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
- superclass — a category of related classes within a phylum or subphylum.
- superclean — exceptionally clean
- superfecta — a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor must select the first four finishers in exact order.
- superflack — an extremely competent, successful press agent
- supermacho — extremely macho
- superscale — on a very large scale
- supragenic — beyond the limits or above the level of genes.
- swipe card — a plastic card with magnetically encoded data that is decoded when passed through a slotted electronic reader, especially for payment or identification purposes.
- tap dancer — to perform a tap dance.
- taper jack — a device for melting sealing wax, having a waxed wick fed through a plate from a reel.
- taperstick — a candlestick designed to hold tapers.
- tapescript — a recording of the spoken word on tape or a transcript of this
- temperance — moderation or self-restraint in action, statement, etc.; self-control.
- the parcae — the Roman goddesses of fate
- touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
- triplicate — one of three identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
- uncaptured — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- uncarpeted — having no carpet
- uncompared — to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note similarities and differences: to compare two pieces of cloth; to compare the governments of two nations.
- upper case — an often small or portable container for enclosing something, as for carrying or safekeeping; receptacle: a jewel case.
- vectograph — a technology that uses special glasses to see a photographic image between two plastic sheets as three dimensional
- voice part — the melody or succession of tones for one of the voices or instruments in a harmonic or concerted composition.
- vulpecular — pertaining to or resembling a fox; vulpine.
- 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 −.
- wackyparse — (Internet, slang) In Kibology, the practice of misreading text to humorous effect (perhaps deliberately), especially in line with traditional absurdist humor.
- waterscape — a picture or view of the sea or other body of water.
- 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.
- work space — area used for work
- workplaces — Plural form of workplace.
- workspaces — Plural form of workspace.
- xerox parc — /zee'roks park'/ Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center. For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of ground-breaking hardware and software innovations. The modern mice, windows, and icons (WIMP) style of software interface was invented there. So was the laser printer and the local-area network; Smalltalk; and PARC's series of D machines anticipated the powerful personal computers of the 1980s by a decade. Sadly, the prophets at PARC were without honour in their own company, so much so that it became a standard joke to describe PARC as a place that specialised in developing brilliant ideas for everyone else. The stunning shortsightedness and obtusity of XEROX's top-level suits has been well described in the reference below.