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10-letter words containing s, e, c, t

  • smart alec — smart aleck.
  • smart-alec — smart aleck.
  • smokestack — Also called stack. a pipe for the escape of the smoke or gases of combustion, as on a steamboat, locomotive, or building.
  • societally — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
  • sociometry — the measurement of attitudes of social acceptance or rejection through expressed preferences among members of a social grouping.
  • socket 370 — (hardware, standard, processor)   (PGA370) A physical and electrical specification for a motherboard processor socket. Socket 370 uses a square SPGA ZIF socket with 370 pins, arranged 37x37 (sometimes described as 19x19). The difference between the two versions is electrical; some pins are used differently and voltage requirements have been changed from Intel's VRM 8.2 to VRM 8.4. In addition, Celeron processors require a 66 MHz front side bus (FSB), and Pentium III processors require a 100/133 MHz FSB. Some older Socket 370 motherboards support VRM 8.4 and variable bus speeds, so adapters are available that convert the socket pinout to allow FC-PGA processors to work.
  • socket set — a set of different sized tools that can fit onto one handle and are used to tighten and loosen nuts
  • soft scale — any of numerous homopterous insect pests of the family Coccidae, as leafhoppers, aphids, and whiteflies, that are destructive to crops, shade and fruit trees, and various houseplants.
  • solacement — a comfort or consolation
  • solenocyte — a type of long, narrow, flagellated cell that functions in excretion of nitrogenous wastes and occurs in a variety of organisms, including certain annelids and mollusks.
  • solicitude — the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
  • solonetzic — characteristic of solonetz
  • somaticize — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
  • soricident — having shrewlike teeth
  • sotto voce — in a low, soft voice so as not to be overheard.
  • 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.
  • space shot — the launch of a spacecraft and its subsequent flight in space
  • 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.
  • spacecraft — a vehicle designed for travel or operation in space beyond the earth's atmosphere or in orbit around the earth.
  • spaced out — dazed or stupefied because of the influence of narcotic drugs.
  • spaced-out — dazed or stupefied because of the influence of narcotic drugs.
  • 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.
  • spec sheet — a list describing the specifications of a product or property that is for sale
  • specialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
  • speciality — specialty.
  • 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.
  • speciosity — the quality or state of being specious.
  • spectacled — wearing spectacles.
  • spectacles — anything presented to the sight or view, especially something of a striking or impressive kind: The stars make a fine spectacle tonight.
  • spectating — to participate as a spectator, as at a horse race.
  • spectatrix — a female spectator
  • spectrally — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
  • speculated — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
  • speech act — any of the acts that may be performed by a speaker in making an utterance, as stating, asking, requesting, advising, warning, or persuading, considered in terms of the content of the message, the intention of the speaker, and the effect on the listener.
  • 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
  • sphacelate — affected with gangrene
  • sphericity — a spherical state or form.
  • spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
  • spiculated — covered with spicules or needle-like
  • spiflicate — to destroy; annihilate
  • spinescent — Botany. becoming spinelike. ending in a spine. bearing spines.
  • 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.
  • split cane — bamboo split into strips of triangular section, tapered, and glued to form a stiff but flexible hexagonal rod: used, esp formerly, for making fishing rods
  • sporocytes — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
  • spot check — impromptu inspection
  • spot price — the price of spot goods or of commodities on the spot market.
  • spot-check — to examine or investigate by means of a spot check.
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