10-letter words containing p, s, y, c
- cytoplasms — Plural form of cytoplasm.
- cytoplasts — Plural form of cytoplast.
- despicably — deserving to be despised, or regarded with distaste, disgust, or disdain; contemptible: He was a mean, despicable man, who treated his wife and children badly.
- disparency — (proscribed) A significant discrepancy.
- dysgraphic — a person who suffers from dysgraphia
- dysmorphic — relating to or resulting in misshapenness of parts of the body
- dysplastic — Exhibiting dysplasia.
- dyspractic — relating to or affected by dyspraxia
- dystrophic — Medicine/Medical. pertaining to or caused by dystrophy.
- ectophytes — Plural form of ectophyte.
- emphysemic — Relating to emphysema.
- encrypters — Plural form of encrypter.
- epicalyces — Plural form of epicalyx.
- epicalyxes — Plural form of epicalyx.
- episcopacy — Government of a church by bishops.
- escape key — a key on a computer keyboard used to leave a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
- escapology — The study or art of escaping from a constriction, e.g. rope, handcuffs, etc.
- especially — Used to single out one person, thing, or situation over all others.
- eucalyptus — A fast-growing evergreen Australasian tree that has been widely introduced elsewhere . It is valued for its timber, oil, gum, and resin, and as an ornamental tree.
- eye splice — an eye formed in a rope by splicing the end into its standing part
- eyepatches — Plural form of eyepatch.
- flyspeck 3 — (humour) A standard name for any font that is so tiny as to be unreadable, by analogy with names like "Helvetica 10" for 10-point Helvetica. Legal boilerplate is usually printed in Flyspeck 3.
- flyspecked — Covered with flyspecks.
- foetoscopy — Alternative form of fetoscopy.
- funduscopy — Ophthalmoscopic examination of the fundus of the eye.
- geophysics — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- gonioscopy — an optical instrument used for measuring the angle of the anterior chamber of the eye.
- gyroscopes — Plural form of gyroscope.
- gyroscopic — an apparatus consisting of a rotating wheel so mounted that its axis can turn freely in certain or all directions, and capable of maintaining the same absolute direction in space in spite of movements of the mountings and surrounding parts: used to maintain equilibrium, determine direction, etc.
- hydroscope — an optical device for viewing objects below the surface of water.
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
- hygroscope — an instrument that indicates the approximate humidity of the air.
- hygroscopy — The ability of a substance to attract and hold water molecules from the surrounding environment.
- hyperchaos — (mathematics) A form of chaotic behaviour with at least two positive Lyapunov exponents.
- hypercubes — Plural form of hypercube.
- hyperosmic — Of, pertaining to, or affected by hyperosmia.
- hypersonic — noting or pertaining to speed that is at least five times that of sound in the same medium.
- hyperspace — a Euclidean space of dimension greater than three.
- hypersparc — (processor) The successor to the SuperSPARC processor, based on the SPARC ISA. The HyperSPARC has smaller caches than the SuperSPARC: 8kb on-chip and 256kb off-chip (compared with 36kb and 1Mb). The HyperSPARC's memory management is optimised for more efficient out-of-cache addressing which means quicker access to external (slower, cheaper) memory.
- hypocausts — Plural form of hypocaust.
- hypocorism — a pet name.
- hypocotyls — Plural form of hypocotyl.
- hypocrisie — Obsolete form of hypocrisy.
- hypocrites — Plural form of hypocrite.
- hypostatic — of or relating to a hypostasis; fundamental.
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- isopycnals — Plural form of isopycnal.
- jockeyship — the art or skill of a jockey
- keypunches — Plural form of keypunch.
- lymphatics — Plural form of lymphatic.