10-letter words containing s, e, t, c, r
- 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.
- spacecraft — a vehicle designed for travel or operation in space beyond the earth's atmosphere or in orbit around the earth.
- 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
- spectrally — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- 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
- sphericity — a spherical state or form.
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- 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.
- sporocytes — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- spot price — the price of spot goods or of commodities on the spot market.
- spycatcher — a person who works in counterintelligence to detect enemy espionage activities
- square-cut — cut so as to be rectangular, straight, or level
- st. brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- stage race — a cycling race consisting of several separate races over successive days
- stagecraft — skill in or the art of writing, adapting, or staging plays.
- stake race — a race in which part of the prize or purse is put up by the owners of the horses nominated to run in the race.
- star facet — (in a brilliant) any of the eight small facets of the crown immediately below the table.
- starchedly — in a starched manner
- starfucker — a person who seeks to have sexual relations with celebrities; groupie
- statecraft — the art of government and diplomacy.
- stavesacre — a larkspur, Delphinium staphisagria, of Europe and Asia Minor, having violently emetic and cathartic poisonous seeds.
- stepdancer — a person who engages in stepdancing
- stercorary — a weatherproof place where dung is stored
- stercorate — dung or faecal matter
- stereocard — a card showing two stereoscopic pictures
- sterically — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- sternalgic — relating to or having sternalgia
- sterno can — a small can of Sterno
- stickering — a person or thing that sticks.
- stockhorse — a horse or pony used in herding cattle.
- stockinger — a person who knits on a stocking frame
- stockowner — stockholder (def 1).
- stockrider — a cowboy.
- stockroute — a public trail having right of way across private properties and over which cattle and sheep may be herded to grazing grounds or to market.
- stone crab — an edible crab, Menippe mercenaria, of rocky shores from the southern U.S. to Mexico and certain areas of the Caribbean, prized for the meat of its claws.
- stop price — the price at which a stop order is activated.
- store card — a token bearing the name of a business, often exchangeable for a particular item.
- storm cell — an air mass formed by powerful updrafts and downdrafts moving in convective loops, the smallest unit of a storm system.
- storm cone — a canvas cone hoisted as a warning of high winds
- strategics — strategy (def 1).
- street cry — the cry of a street hawker
- street-car — a public vehicle running regularly along certain streets, usually on rails, as a trolley car or trolley bus.
- stretching — the activity of straightening the arms and legs and tightening the muscles
- stretchout — a deliberate extension of time for meeting a production quota.
- strictness — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
- stringency — stringent character or condition: the stringency of poverty.
- structured — having and manifesting a clearly defined structure or organization.