10-letter words containing s, o, c, i, p
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- spinaceous — pertaining to or of the nature of spinach; belonging to the amaranth family of plants.
- 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.
- spitchcock — an eel that is split, cut into pieces, and broiled or fried.
- spondaical — composed of spondees
- sporadical — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sporicidal — a substance or preparation for killing spores.
- sporogenic — relating to the production or formation of spores, or producing spores
- sporogonic — involving or relating to sporogony
- spot price — the price of spot goods or of commodities on the spot market.
- springlock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
- 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.
- stock whip — a whip with a long lash and a short handle, as used to herd cattle
- stop price — the price at which a stop order is activated.
- subtropics — the region lying between the tropics and temperate lands
- supermicro — the fastest and most powerful type of microcomputer, with capabilities more commonly associated with minicomputers.
- supersonic — greater than the speed of sound waves through air.
- supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
- supraoptic — above the optic chiasm
- suspicious — tending to cause or excite suspicion; questionable: suspicious behavior.
- teichopsia — a temporary visual impairment associated with migraine
- teinoscope — an optical device employing prisms to correct the chromatic aberration of light
- telescopic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a telescope.
- toponymics — the study of place-names
- triniscope — an early television with three tubes projecting the three primary colours
- unprecious — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- urinoscopy — uroscopy.
- whipstocks — Plural form of whipstock.
- workpieces — Plural form of workpiece.
- zooplastic — the transplantation of living tissue to the human body from an animal of another species.