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10-letter words containing s, c, i, r, e

  • scrutinize — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
  • scurfiness — the state or quality of being scurfy
  • sea urchin — any echinoderm of the class Echinoidea, having a somewhat globular or discoid form, and a shell composed of many calcareous plates covered with projecting spines.
  • seborrheic — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
  • secretaire — any writing desk resembling a secretary.
  • secularism — secular spirit or tendency, especially a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship.
  • secularist — secular spirit or tendency, especially a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship.
  • secularity — secular views or beliefs; secularism.
  • secularize — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
  • securiform — (of plants) having the shape of an axe
  • securities — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
  • securitize — to reduce the risk of (a loan) by the use of such securities as eurobonds
  • semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
  • semichorus — half of a chorus; part of a chorus to be sung by a portion but not all of the singers
  • semicircle — Also called semicircumference [sem-ee-ser-kuhm-fer-uh ns, -fruh ns, sem-ahy-] /ˌsɛm i sərˈkʌm fər əns, -frəns, ˌsɛm aɪ-/ (Show IPA). half of a circle; the arc from one end of a diameter to the other.
  • semicirque — an opening in the shape of a semicircle amongst trees or hills
  • semisacred — partly or somewhat sacred; sacred to a limited degree; having some characteristics of the sacred
  • semisecret — partly but not fully secret
  • seriocomic — partly serious and partly comic: a seriocomic play.
  • serviceman — a member of the armed forces of a country.
  • servicemen — a member of the armed forces of a country.
  • shitkicker — an unsophisticated farmer, cowboy, or other rural person; country person.
  • sickerness — sureness
  • sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
  • side chair — a straight-backed chair without arms.
  • siderocyte — an erythrocyte that contains iron in forms other than hematin.
  • siegecraft — the science or skill of conducting a siege
  • silkscreen — Also called silkscreen process. a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing.
  • silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
  • 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.
  • sine curve — a curve described by the equation y = sin x, the ordinate being equal to the sine of the abscissa.
  • siren call — the appeal that something has although it is harmful or dangerous
  • snickering — to laugh in a half-suppressed, indecorous or disrespectful manner.
  • socdoliger — a conclusive argument, a hard blow
  • socializer — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
  • sociometry — the measurement of attitudes of social acceptance or rejection through expressed preferences among members of a social grouping.
  • sock-liner — a thin piece of material, as leather, that is laid on top of the insole of a shoe, boot, or other footwear.
  • soil creep — creep of soil on even slopes; often accelerated by spring freeze-and-thaw or general periglacial conditions. Compare creep (def 22a).
  • soricident — having shrewlike teeth
  • sororicide — a person who kills his or her sister.
  • 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.
  • spermicide — a sperm-killing agent, especially a commercial birth-control preparation, usually a cream or jelly.
  • sphericity — a spherical state or form.
  • spiceberry — a myrtaceous tree, Eugenia rhombea, of the Caribbean and Florida, with orange or black edible fruits
  • 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.
  • sporogenic — relating to the production or formation of spores, or producing spores
  • spot price — the price of spot goods or of commodities on the spot market.
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