8-letter words containing s, c, r, a, p
- parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
- parcours — parcourse.
- patrices — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- perisarc — the horny or chitinous outer case or covering protecting the soft parts of hydrozoans.
- piscator — fisherman.
- postcard — Also called picture postcard. a small, commercially printed card, usually having a picture on one side and space for a short message on the other.
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- precrash — of or pertaining to the period before a crash, esp of a motor vehicle; coming into effect or being deployed prior to a crash
- priscian — flourished a.d. c500, Latin grammarian.
- purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- pushcard — punchboard.
- pushcart — any of various types of wheeled light cart to be pushed by hand, as one used by street vendors.
- saprobic — saprophyte.
- sarpanch — the head of a panchayat
- scalprum — a large scalpel
- scapular — of or relating to the shoulders or the scapula or scapulae.
- scare up — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- scarfpin — tiepin.
- sceptral — of, resembling, or relating to a sceptre
- scorepad — a pad whose sheets are printed with headings, vertical or horizontal lines, symbols, or the like, to facilitate the recording of scores in a game, as bowling or bridge.
- scraping — an act or instance of scraping.
- scrapped — a fight or quarrel: She got into a scrap with her in-laws.
- scrapper — a fighter or aggressive competitor, especially one always ready or eager for a fight, argument, or contest: the best lightweight scrapper in boxing; a rugged political scrapper.
- scrapple — cornmeal mush mixed with pork scraps, seasoned with onions, spices, herbs, etc., and shaped into loaves and sliced for frying.
- seaperch — surfperch.
- seraphic — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
- skip car — an open car for charging a blast furnace.
- spacewar — (games) A space-combat simulation game for the PDP-1 written in 1960-61 by Steve Russell, an employee at MIT. SPACEWAR was inspired by E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and jumping through hyperspace. MIT were wondering what to do with a new vector video display so Steve wrote the world's first video game. Steve now lives in California and still writes software for HC12 emulators. SPACEWAR aficionados formed the core of the early hacker culture at MIT. Nine years later, a descendant of the game motivated Ken Thompson to build, in his spare time on a scavenged PDP-7, the operating system that became Unix. Less than nine years after that, SPACEWAR was commercialised as one of the first video games; descendants are still feeping in video arcades everywhere.
- spagyric — pertaining to or resembling alchemy; alchemic.
- specmark — (benchmark) The average of a set of floating-point and integer SPEC benchmark results. While the old average SPECmark89 has been popular with the industry and the press, SPEC has intentionally *not* defined an average "SPECmark92" over all CPU benchmarks of the 1992 suites (CINT92 and CFP92), for the following reasons: With 6 integer (CINT92) and 14 floating-point (CFP92) benchmarks, the average would be biased too much toward floating-point. Customers' workloads are different, some integer-only, some floating-point intensive, some mixed. Current processors have developed their strengths in a more diverse way (some more emphasizing integer performance, some more floating-point performance) than in 1989. Some SPECmark results are available here. See also SPECint92, SPECfp92, SPECrate_int92, SPECrate_fp92.
- spectral — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- specular — pertaining to or having the properties of a mirror.
- spicular — relating to or characteristic of spicula
- spiracle — a breathing hole; an opening by which a confined space has communication with the outer air; air hole.
- sporadic — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sprackle — to clamber or scramble upwards
- sprauncy — smart or showy in appearance
- spruance — Raymond Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1886–1969, U.S. admiral.
- supercar — a very expensive fast or powerful car with a centrally located engine
- supermac — A general-purpose macro language, embeddable in existing languages as a run-time library.
- xpercase — A structure diagram editor for developing, re-engineering, maintaining and documenting programs, developed by Siemens AG, Austria. It runs under Microsoft Windows. E-Mail: <[email protected]>.