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10-letter words containing r, e, c, a, p, i

  • pratincole — any of several limicoline birds of the genus Glareola, of the Eastern Hemisphere, having a short bill, long, narrow, pointed wings, and a forked tail.
  • pre-advice — an opinion or recommendation offered as a guide to action, conduct, etc.: I shall act on your advice.
  • pre-atomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
  • pre-climax — a stable community that precedes the full development of the climax community of a given area and that results from local variations in soil and water.
  • preachings — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
  • preaseptic — pertaining to the period before the use of aseptic practices in surgery.
  • precarious — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • precaution — a measure taken in advance to avert possible evil or to secure good results.
  • preceptial — preceptive, instructive, didactic; conveying or consisting of precepts
  • preceramic — noting or pertaining to a period or culture antedating the use of ceramics or pottery.
  • predacious — predatory; rapacious.
  • predicable — that may be predicated or affirmed; assertable.
  • predicated — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
  • predicator — the verbal element of a clause or sentence.
  • prefascist — relating to fascist leanings before Fascism was founded in 1919
  • prefinance — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
  • preglacial — prior to a given glacial epoch, especially the Pleistocene.
  • prelexical — denoting or applicable at a stage in the formation of a sentence at which words and phrases have not yet replaced all of the underlying grammatical and semantic material of that sentence in the speaker's mind
  • prelogical — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
  • premedical — of or relating to studies in preparation for the formal study of medicine: a premedical course.
  • prepacking — a package assembled by a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer and containing a specific number of items or a specific assortment of sizes, colors, flavors, etc., of a product.
  • prevocalic — immediately preceding a vowel.
  • principate — supreme power or office.
  • pro-active — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • proclaimer — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.
  • quadriceps — a large muscle in front of the thigh, the action of which extends the leg or bends the hip joint.
  • radioscope — an instrument, such as a fluoroscope, capable of detecting radiant energy
  • reciprocal — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
  • redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
  • replicable — capable of replication: The scientific experiment must be replicable in all details to be considered valid.
  • replicator — Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.
  • republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
  • rice paddy — a field planted with rice
  • rice paper — a thin paper made from the straw of rice, as in China.
  • riverscape — a view, painting, etc., of a river and the land surrounding or adjacent to it.
  • sale price — discounted cost
  • saprogenic — producing putrefaction or decay, as certain bacteria.
  • sarcopenia — reduction in muscle tissue as a result of ageing
  • sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
  • scampering — to run or go hastily or quickly.
  • scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
  • semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • supercilia — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
  • supragenic — beyond the limits or above the level of genes.
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