10-letter words containing r, a, c, e, s
- skyscraper — a relatively tall building of many stories, especially one for office or commercial use.
- slot racer — slot car.
- smart alec — smart aleck.
- smart-alec — smart aleck.
- smear-case — any soft cheese suitable for spreading or eating with a spoon, especially a sour cottage cheese.
- socializer — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- solar cell — a photovoltaic cell that converts sunlight directly into electricity.
- sour cream — cream soured by the lactic acid produced by a ferment.
- sour-faced — bad-tempered and unfriendly
- space mark — a proofreader's symbol used to indicate the need to insert space, as between two typed or printed words that have been run together. Symbol: #.
- 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 It is the geometric mean of ten SPEC ratios of the outdated 1989 SPEC benchmark suite. The use of SPECmark89 is strongly discouraged, having been superseded by CINT92 and CFP92.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
- square-cut — cut so as to be rectangular, straight, or level
- squirearch — a member of the squirearchy.
- stage race — a cycling race consisting of several separate races over successive days
- stagecraft — skill in or the art of writing, adapting, or staging plays.
- stake race — a race in which part of the prize or purse is put up by the owners of the horses nominated to run in the race.
- star facet — (in a brilliant) any of the eight small facets of the crown immediately below the table.
- starchedly — in a starched manner
- starfucker — a person who seeks to have sexual relations with celebrities; groupie
- statecraft — the art of government and diplomacy.
- stavesacre — a larkspur, Delphinium staphisagria, of Europe and Asia Minor, having violently emetic and cathartic poisonous seeds.
- stepdancer — a person who engages in stepdancing
- stercorary — a weatherproof place where dung is stored
- stercorate — dung or faecal matter
- stereocard — a card showing two stereoscopic pictures
- sterically — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- sternalgic — relating to or having sternalgia
- sterno can — a small can of Sterno
- stone crab — an edible crab, Menippe mercenaria, of rocky shores from the southern U.S. to Mexico and certain areas of the Caribbean, prized for the meat of its claws.
- store card — a token bearing the name of a business, often exchangeable for a particular item.
- strategics — strategy (def 1).
- street-car — a public vehicle running regularly along certain streets, usually on rails, as a trolley car or trolley bus.
- subarcuate — fairly arched
- subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
- subcaliber — noting or pertaining to ammunition of smaller caliber than the gun in which it is used.
- subcalibre — (of a projectile) having a calibre less than that of the firearm from which it is discharged and therefore either fitted with a disc or fired through a tube inserted into the barrel
- subcarbide — a carbide containing less than the normal proportion of carbon.