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10-letter words containing s, p, e, c, i, o

  • preciously — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
  • preclusion — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
  • precocious — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
  • predacious — predatory; rapacious.
  • prime cost — that part of the cost of a commodity deriving from the labor and materials directly utilized in its manufacture.
  • princedoms — the position, rank, or dignity of a prince.
  • process id — process identifier
  • processing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
  • procession — the act of moving along or proceeding in orderly succession or in a formal and ceremonious manner, as a line of people, animals, vehicles, etc.
  • processive — advancing or going forward; progressive: the processive quality of language.
  • proscenium — Also called proscenium arch. the arch that separates a stage from the auditorium. Abbreviation: pros.
  • proscience — a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.
  • proscribed — condemned or prohibited
  • prosecting — to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
  • prosthetic — of or relating to an artificial body part or prosthesis: He was fitted for a prosthetic arm.
  • proteomics — the study of the functions, structures, and interactions of proteins; the study of the proteome.
  • pseudoacid — a compound that is not an acid but which undergoes certain typical reactions of an acid
  • pseudocide — the act of faking one’s own death
  • radioscope — an instrument, such as a fluoroscope, capable of detecting radiant energy
  • rhinoscope — a special instrument used to examine the nasal passages
  • riflescope — a telescopic sight mounted on top of a rifle that helps to improve one's aim by magnifying and pinpointing a target.
  • saprogenic — producing putrefaction or decay, as certain bacteria.
  • sarcopenia — reduction in muscle tissue as a result of ageing
  • sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
  • scaloppine — scallops, especially of veal, flattened by pounding and usually dredged in flour or breadcrumbs and sautéed quickly: scaloppine alla Marsala.
  • scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
  • scots pine — a coniferous tree, Pinus sylvestris, of Europe and W and N Asia, having blue-green needle-like leaves and brown cones with a small prickle on each scale: a valuable timber tree
  • semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
  • silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
  • soil creep — creep of soil on even slopes; often accelerated by spring freeze-and-thaw or general periglacial conditions. Compare creep (def 22a).
  • spadiceous — Botany. of the nature of a spadix. bearing a spadix.
  • 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.
  • sporogenic — relating to the production or formation of spores, or producing spores
  • spot price — the price of spot goods or of commodities on the spot market.
  • 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.
  • stop price — the price at which a stop order is activated.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • triniscope — an early television with three tubes projecting the three primary colours
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