10-letter words containing p, r, o, e, s
- shopfitter — a worker who makes and installs fittings for commercial premises
- shopkeeper — a retail merchant or tradesman; a person who owns or operates a small store or shop.
- shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
- shopwalker — a floorwalker.
- shower cap — a plastic cap worn in the shower to keep the hair dry
- shreveport — a city in NW Louisiana, on the Red River.
- shropshire — a former county in W England, now part of Salop.
- simferopol — a city in S Ukraine, on the S Crimean Peninsula.
- simon pure — real; genuine: a simon-pure accent.
- simon-pure — real; genuine: a simon-pure accent.
- sine prole — without offspring or progeny: to die sine prole.
- skeuomorph — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
- skytrooper — a paratrooper.
- sleep over — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- sleep-over — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smokeproof — that cannot be penetrated by smoke: a fireproof and smokeproof compartment.
- snow-creep — a continuous, slow, downhill movement of snow.
- soap opera — a radio or television series depicting the interconnected lives of many characters often in a sentimental, melodramatic way.
- soft power — the ability to achieve one's goals without force, esp by diplomacy, persuasion, etc
- soil creep — creep of soil on even slopes; often accelerated by spring freeze-and-thaw or general periglacial conditions. Compare creep (def 22a).
- solar apex — the point on the celestial sphere, near Vega, toward which the solar system is moving relative to the visible stars.
- sophrosyne — moderation; discretion; prudence.
- spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
- spare room — guest bedroom
- 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.
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- spermatoid — resembling sperm.
- sphenogram — a cuneiform character.
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- spheroidal — pertaining to a spheroid or spheroids.
- spiderwork — a thing which has the appearance of a spider's web
- spiderwort — any plant of the genus Tradescantia, having blue, purple, or rose-colored flowers.
- spill over — be full of: emotion
- 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.
- spirometer — an instrument for determining the capacity of the lungs.
- spirometry — an instrument for determining the capacity of the lungs.
- spirophore — a device for producing artificial respiration
- spleenwort — any of various temperate and tropical ferns of the genera Asplenium and Diplazium, certain species of which are grown as ornamentals.
- splendored — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- spoken for — engaged, reserved, or allocated
- spongeware — earthenware decorated with color applied with a sponge.
- spoonerism — the transposition of initial or other sounds of words, usually by accident, as in a blushing crow for a crushing blow.
- spore case — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- sporocytes — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sporogenic — relating to the production or formation of spores, or producing spores
- sporophore — a fungus hypha specialized to bear spores.
- sporophyte — the form of a plant in the alternation of generations that produces asexual spores.
- sporozoite — one of the minute, active bodies into which the spore of certain Sporozoa divides, each developing into an adult individual.