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9-letter words containing p, r, e, c, s

  • scrape in — to succeed in entering with difficulty or by a narrow margin
  • scrape up — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
  • scrapegut — a fiddle player
  • scrapheap — a pile of old, discarded material, as metal.
  • scrappage — the act or process of scrapping
  • screw cap — a cap designed to screw onto the threaded mouth of a bottle, jar, or the like.
  • screw top — (of a container) having a top that screws on.
  • screw-top — (of a container) having a top that screws on.
  • scripless — a receipt, certificate, list, or similar brief piece of writing.
  • scrippage — the contents of a scrip
  • scripters — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
  • scripture — Often, Scriptures. Also called Holy Scripture, Holy Scriptures. the sacred writings of the Old or New Testaments or both together.
  • sculpture — the art of carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions, as in relief, intaglio, or in the round.
  • scuppered — Military. to overwhelm; surprise and destroy, disable, or massacre.
  • sea perch — surfperch.
  • sepulcher — a tomb, grave, or burial place.
  • sepulchre — to place in a sepulcher; bury.
  • serotypic — of or relating to a serotype
  • sharecrop — to cultivate (farmland) as a sharecropper
  • shipwreck — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
  • slipcover — a cover of cloth or other material for a piece of furniture, as an upholstered chair or sofa, made so as to be easily removable.
  • snowcreep — a continuous, slow, downhill movement of snow.
  • space bar — a horizontal bar on a typewriter keyboard that is depressed in order to resume typing one space to the right.
  • space-bar — a horizontal bar on a typewriter keyboard that is depressed in order to resume typing one space to the right.
  • spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.
  • spaceward — going into space
  • spar deck — the upper deck of a vessel, extending from stem to stern.
  • sparticle — a hypothetical elementary particle thought to have been produced in the Big Bang
  • spec rate — (benchmark)   Results of the throughput measurement using SPEC benchmark suites CINT92 and CFP92. With the throughput measurement method, several copies of a given benchmark are executed. The method is particularly suitable for multiprocessor systems. The results, called SPEC rate, express how many jobs of a particular type (characterised by the individual benchmark) can be executed in a given time (The SPEC reference time happens to be a week, the execution times are normalized with respect to a VAX 11/780). The SPEC rates therefore characterise the capacity of a system for compute-intensive jobs of similar characteristics. See also SPEC ratio.
  • specifier — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
  • spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
  • spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
  • spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
  • sphincter — a circular band of voluntary or involuntary muscle that encircles an orifice of the body or one of its hollow organs.
  • sporicide — a substance or preparation for killing spores.
  • sporocyte — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
  • sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
  • spruce up — trim in dress or appearance; neat; smart; dapper.
  • spruce-up — an act of cleaning up, refurbishing, renovating, or the like.
  • stepchair — a set of steps folding into a chair.
  • stonecrop — any plant of the genus Sedum, especially a mosslike herb, S. acre, having small, fleshy leaves and yellow flowers, frequently growing on rocks and walls.
  • super pac — a type of PAC that has no limitations on the amount or source of donations, though it cannot contribute directly to a political campaign or party. See also PAC.
  • supercede — supersede.
  • supercell — a highly organized thunderstorm that can last for several hours, capable of producing both updrafts and downdrafts exceeding 100 miles per hour, large hailstones, tornadoes, and flash flooding (often used attributively): a supercell in Kansas City; supercell storms.
  • superchic — highly or very chic
  • supercity — a large, heavily populated urban area that includes several cities; megalopolis.
  • superclub — a large or important club or society
  • supercoil — superhelix.
  • supercold — extremely cold
  • supercool — to cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without producing solidification or crystallization; undercool.
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