10-letter words containing s, p, e, c, m
- empedocles — ?490–430 bc, Greek philosopher and scientist, who held that the world is composed of four elements, air, fire, earth, and water, which are governed by the opposing forces of love and discord
- emphysemic — Relating to emphysema.
- empiricism — The theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. Stimulated by the rise of experimental science, it developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, expounded in particular by John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume.
- empiricist — An advocate or supporter of empiricism.
- episematic — (esp of coloration) aiding recognition between animals of the same species
- epistemics — the interdisciplinary study of knowledge and human information-processing, using the formal techniques of logic, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology
- escapement — A mechanism in a clock or watch that alternately checks and releases the train by a fixed amount and transmits a periodic impulse from the spring or weight to the balance wheel or pendulum.
- escarpment — A long, steep slope, especially one at the edge of a plateau or separating areas of land at different heights.
- game chips — round thin potato chips served with game
- graphemics — the study of writing systems and of their relation to speech.
- home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
- hyperosmic — Of, pertaining to, or affected by hyperosmia.
- impedances — Plural form of impedance.
- imperfects — Plural form of imperfect.
- implicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of implicate.
- imprecates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imprecate.
- incomposed — (obsolete) disordered; disturbed.
- leptosomic — a person of asthenic build.
- lumpsucker — A globular fish of cooler northern waters, typically having a ventral sucker and spiny fins; a lumpfish.
- macpherson — James, 1736–96, Scottish author and translator.
- macropores — Plural form of macropore.
- macroscope — A wide-field imaging device.
- macrospore — megaspore.
- mascarpone — a very soft Italian cream cheese made from cow's milk.
- mckeesport — a city in SW Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
- meatoscope — (medicine) A speculum for examining a natural passage, such as the urethra.
- meconopsis — Any of several poppy-like plants, of the genus Meconopsis, most of which are found in the Himalayas.
- mediascape — Communications media as a whole.
- megaparsec — one million parsecs.
- megascopic — Visible to the naked eye.
- mesophilic — (of bacteria) growing best at moderate temperatures, between 25°C and 40°C.
- mesophytic — Relating to a mesophyte.
- mesoscaphe — a mid-20th century vessel lowered into the sea to a moderate depth for the purpose of underwater exploration
- metacarpus — the part of a hand or forelimb, especially of its bony structure, included between the wrist, or carpus, and the fingers, or phalanges.
- metaphasic — Relating to metaphase.
- metaphysic — metaphysics.
- metroscope — an instrument for examining the cavity of the uterus.
- micropenis — (medical) An unusually small penis.
- micropores — a tiny opening, as in specialized biological filters or in the shells of some animals.
- micropyles — Plural form of micropyle.
- microscope — an optical instrument having a magnifying lens or a combination of lenses for inspecting objects too small to be seen or too small to be seen distinctly and in detail by the unaided eye.
- microsleep — a moment of sleep followed by disorientation, experienced especially by persons suffering from narcolepsy or sleep deprivation.
- microspore — the smaller of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and some fern allies, developing into a male gametophyte. Compare megaspore,
- mindscapes — Plural form of mindscape.
- miscompute — To compute erroneously.
- mispackage — a bundle of something, usually of small or medium size, that is packed and wrapped or boxed; parcel.
- mispredict — to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
- monospaced — Simple past tense and past participle of monospace.
- moonscapes — Plural form of moonscape.
- morphemics — the study of the classification, description, and functions of morphemes; morphology.