10-letter words containing s, o, r, t, c
- seat cover — a cover for a seat
- securocrat — a military or police officer who has the power to influence government policy
- sex factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- short code — (language) (SHORTCODE) A pseudocode interpreter for mathematics problems, designed by John Mauchly in 1949 to execute on Eckert and Mauchly's BINAC and later on UNIVAC I and II. Short Code was possibly the first attempt at a high level language.
- shortcrust — light crumbly pastry
- siderocyte — an erythrocyte that contains iron in forms other than hematin.
- slot racer — slot car.
- snow crust — a relatively hard, upper layer or film of ice or compacted snow on a snow surface.
- sociometry — the measurement of attitudes of social acceptance or rejection through expressed preferences among members of a social grouping.
- soricident — having shrewlike teeth
- soundtrack — the narrow band on one or both sides of a motion-picture film on which sound is recorded.
- 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.
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- 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.
- sport coat — A sport coat is a man's jacket. It is worn on informal occasions with pants of a different material.
- sports cap — a hat designed for sports or to look sporty
- sports car — small, low, fast car
- sportscast — a radio or television program consisting of sports news or of a running description of a sports event.
- spot price — the price of spot goods or of commodities on the spot market.
- star cloud — a cloudlike patch of light on the celestial sphere, consisting of a multitude of stars.
- stercorary — a weatherproof place where dung is stored
- stercorate — dung or faecal matter
- stereocard — a card showing two stereoscopic pictures
- sterno can — a small can of Sterno
- sticharion — a white tunic of silk or linen, corresponding to the alb, worn by deacons, priests, and bishops.
- stitchwork — embroidery or needlework.
- stitchwort — any of several plants belonging to the genus Stellaria, of the pink family, having white flowers.
- stock farm — a farm devoted to breeding livestock.
- 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 coat — an overcoat, usually of a water-repellent fabric, lined with material serving as insulation against very cold weather, often having a fur collar.
- storm cone — a canvas cone hoisted as a warning of high winds
- stracchino — a soft cheese from North Italy
- stretchout — a deliberate extension of time for meeting a production quota.
- stuccowork — moldings, decorative work, or a finish made of stucco.
- sub-sector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- subcontrol — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- subcordate — almost heart-shaped
- subproduct — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
- subproject — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- subtractor — in electronics, a circuit of which the output depends upon the difference between two inputs