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10-letter words containing s, c, p, i

  • ship canal — a canal navigable by ships.
  • shopaholic — a frequent shopper, especially one who is unable to control his or her spending.
  • shrinkpack — flexible plastic used for shrink-wrapping goods
  • sic passim — so throughout: used especially as a footnote to indicate that a word, phrase, or idea recurs throughout the book being cited.
  • sick puppy — mentally ill or depraved person
  • silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
  • 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.
  • simplicial — relating to simplexes
  • simplicity — the state, quality, or an instance of being simple.
  • simplicius — Saint, died a.d. 483, pope 468–483.
  • simplistic — characterized by extreme simplism; oversimplified: a simplistic notion of good and bad.
  • sipunculid — an invertebrate of the phylum Sipuncula, comprising the peanut worms.
  • skepticism — skeptical attitude or temper; doubt.
  • skin patch — an adhesive patch stuck to the skin to slowly and steadily release medicine into the bloodstream
  • slip a cog — (not in technical use) a gear tooth, formerly especially one of hardwood or metal, fitted into a slot in a gearwheel of less durable material.
  • slow pitch — a variety of softball in which the ball is pitched with an underhand motion at moderate speed in an arc that rises at least six feet above the ground
  • slow-pitch — a type of softball with ten players per side and in which each pitch must travel in an arc from three to ten feet high.
  • small pica — (formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 11 point
  • sociopathy — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
  • soil creep — creep of soil on even slopes; often accelerated by spring freeze-and-thaw or general periglacial conditions. Compare creep (def 22a).
  • sophomoric — of or relating to a sophomore or sophomores.
  • space suit — outfit worn by astronaut
  • space-time — Also called space-time continuum. the four-dimensional continuum, having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate, in which all physical quantities may be located.
  • spaciality — spatial.
  • spadiceous — Botany. of the nature of a spadix. bearing a spadix.
  • spark coil — a coil of many turns of insulated wire on an iron core, used for producing sparks.
  • spartacist — a member of a group of German radical socialists formed in 1916 and in 1919 becoming the German Communist Party, led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
  • spasticity — Pathology. pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by spasm, especially tonic spasm.
  • 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.
  • specialise — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
  • specialism — devotion or restriction to a particular pursuit, branch of study, etc.
  • specialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
  • speciality — specialty.
  • specialize — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
  • speciation — the formation of new species as a result of geographic, physiological, anatomical, or behavioral factors that prevent previously interbreeding populations from breeding with each other.
  • speciesism — discrimination in favor of one species, usually the human species, over another, especially in the exploitation or mistreatment of animals by humans.
  • speciocide — the elimination of an entire species
  • speciosity — the quality or state of being specious.
  • speciously — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
  • spectating — to participate as a spectator, as at a horse race.
  • 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.
  • spice lisp — (language)   A flavour of Lisp, the sources of which (in Lisp) are available from CMU.
  • spiceberry — a myrtaceous tree, Eugenia rhombea, of the Caribbean and Florida, with orange or black edible fruits
  • spiculated — covered with spicules or needle-like
  • spiflicate — to destroy; annihilate
  • spinaceous — pertaining to or of the nature of spinach; belonging to the amaranth family of plants.
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