10-letter words containing s, e, p, o
- sponge mop — a mop that makes use of a sponge as the cleaning part
- sponge off — any aquatic, chiefly marine animal of the phylum Porifera, having a porous structure and usually a horny, siliceous or calcareous internal skeleton or framework, occurring in large, sessile colonies.
- spongeable — able to be cleaned with a sponge
- spongecake — sweet cake of eggs and flour
- spongeware — earthenware decorated with color applied with a sponge.
- spongewood — an Indian plant with a pith used in making tropical hats
- spongocoel — the central cavity in the body of a sponge.
- spookiness — like or befitting a spook or ghost; suggestive of spooks.
- spoon-feed — to cause to be spoon-fed.
- spoonerism — the transposition of initial or other sounds of words, usually by accident, as in a blushing crow for a crushing blow.
- spore case — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- sporocytes — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sporogenic — relating to the production or formation of spores, or producing spores
- sporophore — a fungus hypha specialized to bear spores.
- sporophyte — the form of a plant in the alternation of generations that produces asexual spores.
- sporozoite — one of the minute, active bodies into which the spore of certain Sporozoa divides, each developing into an adult individual.
- sportiness — flashy; showy.
- sportswear — clothing designed for wear while playing golf or tennis, hiking, bicycling, jogging, etc.; activewear.
- spot check — impromptu inspection
- spot meter — an exposure meter that measures light reflected from only a small area of a subject or scene.
- spot plate — a flat ceramic or plastic plate containing small wells on which spot tests are made.
- 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.
- spouseless — without a spouse
- spoylefull — plundering
- spread out — extend, splay
- spunbonded — being or designating a material or fiber produced by spun-bonding.
- st. joseph — a city in NW Missouri, on the Missouri River.
- statoscope — an aneroid barometer for registering minute variations of atmospheric pressure.
- steepdowne — very steep or precipitous
- steganopod — a bird belonging to the Steganopodes, a group of swimming birds such as pelicans and cormorants
- stenograph — any of various keyboard instruments, somewhat resembling a typewriter, used for writing in shorthand, as by means of phonetic or arbitrary symbols.
- stenopaeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
- stenotopic — (of an animal or plant) able to tolerate only small environmental changes.
- stenotyper — a machine with a keyboard for recording speeches or dictation in phonetic shorthand
- step on it — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- stephenson — George, 1781–1848, English inventor and engineer.
- stepmother — the wife of one's father by a later marriage.
- stereopair — a pair of photographs of the same area taken from slightly different positions so as to give a stereoscopic effect when properly mounted and viewed.
- stereopsis — stereoscopic vision; the ability to perceive depth.
- stereotape — magnetic tape used for recording and reproducing sound stereophonically.
- stereotype — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- stereotypy — the stereotype process.
- stone pine — Also called umbrella pine, parasol pine. a tree, Pinus pinea, native to southern Europe, having branches forming an umbrellalike crown and bearing edible, nutlike seeds.
- stop order — an order from a customer to a broker to sell a security if the market price drops below a designated level.
- stop press — Stop press is sometimes printed next to an article in a newspaper to indicate that this is very recent news and was added after the rest of the newspaper had been printed.
- stop price — the price at which a stop order is activated.
- stop-frame — Also called stop frame. the process of filming puppets and other objects one frame at a time while incrementally moving or modifying them, giving the illusion of lifelike motion when the captured film frames are viewed in rapid sequence (often used attributively): stop-motion animation; a stop-motion film.
- stovepipes — a pipe, as of sheet metal, serving as a stove chimney or to connect a stove with a chimney flue.
- streperous — boisterous, loud, or harsh-sounding