10-letter words containing s, p, a, t
- breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
- bump start — a method of starting a motor vehicle by engaging a low gear with the clutch depressed and pushing it or allowing it to run down a hill until sufficient momentum has been acquired to turn the engine by releasing the clutch
- burst page — banner
- butt-strap — (in metal construction) a plate which overlaps and fastens two pieces butted together.
- caespitose — growing in dense tufts
- caliphates — Plural form of caliphate.
- calotypist — a person who produces photographs using the calotype process
- camp shirt — a short-sleeved shirt or blouse with a notched collar and usually two breast pockets.
- camp stove — a portable stove used for cooking or heating, especially outdoors.
- campestral — of or relating to open fields or country
- campstools — Plural form of campstool.
- cant strip — an inclined or beveled strip of wood, for changing the pitch of a roof slope or for rounding out the angle between a flat roof and an adjoining parapet.
- cap pistol — a toy gun using caps to imitate the sound of a real pistol.
- capacities — the ability to receive or contain: This hotel has a large capacity.
- capacitors — Plural form of capacitor.
- capacitous — Having the legal capacity to do something.
- cape coast — a seaport in S Ghana, on the Gulf of Guinea, 75 miles (121 km) SW of Accra.
- cape flats — the strip of low-lying land in South Africa joining the Cape Peninsula proper to the African mainland
- capillatus — (of a cumulonimbus cloud) having a cirriform upper portion that resembles an anvil or a disorderly mass of hair.
- capistrate — (zoology, rare) hooded; cowled.
- capitalise — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
- capitalism — Capitalism is an economic and political system in which property, business, and industry are owned by private individuals and not by the state.
- capitalist — A capitalist country or system supports or is based on the principles of capitalism.
- capo tasto — a device fitted across all the strings of a guitar, banjo, etc, so as to raise the pitch of each string simultaneously
- capsulated — Enclosed in a capsule.
- captiously — In a captious manner.
- captivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of captivate.
- carpenters — Plural form of carpenter.
- carpetbags — Plural form of carpetbag.
- carpetless — Not carpeted.
- carpostome — the opening in the cystocarp of certain red algae through which the spores are discharged.
- cashpoints — Plural form of cashpoint.
- catalepsis — Dated form of catalepsy.
- cataphasia — a speech disorder in which a person constantly repeats a word or phrase.
- cataphasis — Rhetoric. the use of affirmative statements to discuss a subject; affirmation through positive statements.
- cataplasia — the degeneration of cells and tissues to a less highly developed form
- cataplasms — Plural form of cataplasm.
- catawampus — askew; awry
- catch-ups' — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
- cathepsins — Plural form of cathepsin.
- catnappers — Plural form of catnapper.
- catoptrics — the branch of optics concerned with reflection, esp the formation of images by mirrors
- cattleship — a large vessel for the transportation of livestock.
- cephalitis — encephalitis.
- ceratopsid — a dinosaur belonging to the family Ceratopsidae, characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns and neck frills
- chap stick — lip balm
- chapatties — Plural form of chapatty.
- cheap shot — A cheap shot is a comment someone makes which you think is unfair or unkind.
- cheapskate — If you say that someone is a cheapskate, you think that they are mean and do not like spending money.
- chest pass — a pass in which the ball is quickly propelled from the chest by the hands and arms.