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10-letter words containing p, r, i, a, s

  • scriptural — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
  • sea spider — any member of the arthropod class Pycnogonida, marine invertebrates with eight long walking legs attached to a small body consisting of a cephalothorax and vestigial abdomen.
  • semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
  • 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.
  • serigraphy — a print made by the silkscreen process.
  • sexpartite — divided into or consisting of six parts.
  • sharpening — the act of making the edge of something very thin or of making its end pointed
  • ship-bread — hardtack.
  • shipmaster — a person who commands a ship; master; captain.
  • shrinkpack — flexible plastic used for shrink-wrapping goods
  • 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.
  • slipstream — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
  • solar ship — (in ancient Egypt) a boat placed in or near the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
  • 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.
  • sparganium — a marsh plant
  • spark coil — a coil of many turns of insulated wire on an iron core, used for producing sparks.
  • sparkishly — in a sparkish manner
  • sparkliest — tending to sparkle; animated; lively: a row of sparkly cheerleaders.
  • spartacist — a member of a group of German radical socialists formed in 1916 and in 1919 becoming the German Communist Party, led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
  • spartanism — Also, Spartanic [spahr-tan-ik] /spɑrˈtæn ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to Sparta or its people.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • spectatrix — a female spectator
  • spencerian — pertaining to or characteristic of a system of penmanship, characterized by clear, rounded letters slanting to the right.
  • spenserian — of or characteristic of Spenser or his work.
  • 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.
  • spermarium — the sperm gland
  • spermatial — relating to the male reproductive cells of certain red algae and fungi
  • spermatium — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
  • spermatoid — resembling sperm.
  • sphalerite — a very common mineral, zinc sulfide, ZnS, usually containing some iron and a little cadmium, occurring in yellow, brown, or black crystals or cleavable masses with resinous luster: the principal ore of zinc and cadmium; blackjack.
  • spheroidal — pertaining to a spheroid or spheroids.
  • spinigrade — a type of spiny echinoderm
  • spiral arm — any of the elongated and curved spiral sections that are connected to the center of a spiral galaxy.
  • spiralizer — a kitchen appliance for cutting vegetables into noodle-like strands
  • spiralling — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
  • spirantize — to change into or pronounce as a spirant.
  • spirituals — of, relating to, or consisting of spirit; incorporeal.
  • spirograph — an instrument for recording respiratory movements.
  • spit-roast — to cook on a spit
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