10-letter words containing s, p, e, c, m
- mousepiece — a cut of meat near the shoulder of a sheep or cow that is rich in muscle tissue
- ms project — Microsoft Project
- muckspread — to muckrake
- myrioscope — a form of kaleidoscope
- namespaces — Plural form of namespace.
- palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
- palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
- panspermic — relating to panspermia
- pas marche — a marching step.
- plasmacyte — Anatomy. an antibody-secreting cell, derived from B cells, that plays a major role in antibody-mediated immunity.
- pneumatics — a pneumatic tire.
- polemicist — a person who is engaged or versed in polemics.
- precompose — to compose beforehand: to precompose a reply to a possible question.
- preconsume — to consume in advance
- 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.
- proscenium — Also called proscenium arch. the arch that separates a stage from the auditorium. Abbreviation: pros.
- proteomics — the study of the functions, structures, and interactions of proteins; the study of the proteome.
- recompense — to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
- recompress — to compress (something) again
- sachemship — the office of a sachem
- scampering — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- scepticism — skeptical attitude or temper; doubt.
- schumpeter — Joseph Alois [uh-lois] /əˈlɔɪs/ (Show IPA), 1883–1950, U.S. economist, born in Austria.
- scrimpness — sparingness
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- semipublic — partly or to some degree public.
- septectomy — excision of part or all of a septum, especially the nasal septum.
- septicemia — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
- septicemic — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
- simple arc — a curve that does not cross itself and has no points missing; a curve that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the closed interval from 0 to 1.
- skepticism — skeptical attitude or temper; doubt.
- sketch map — a rough map of the principal features of a locale, as one drawn from memory.
- someplaces — somewhere
- space mark — a proofreader's symbol used to indicate the need to insert space, as between two typed or printed words that have been run together. Symbol: #.
- space-time — Also called space-time continuum. the four-dimensional continuum, having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate, in which all physical quantities may be located.
- spacewoman — a woman astronaut.
- specialism — devotion or restriction to a particular pursuit, branch of study, etc.
- speciesism — discrimination in favor of one species, usually the human species, over another, especially in the exploitation or mistreatment of animals by humans.
- specmark89 — (benchmark) An old SPECmark benchmark result derived from a set of floating-point and integer benchmarks. It is the geometric mean of ten SPEC ratios of the outdated 1989 SPEC benchmark suite. The use of SPECmark89 is strongly discouraged, having been superseded by CINT92 and CFP92.
- sperm cell — spermatozoon.
- spermaceti — a pearly white, waxy, translucent solid, obtained from the oil in the head of the sperm whale: used chiefly in cosmetics and candles, and as an emollient.
- spermaduct — a spermatic passage found in male animals
- spermicide — a sperm-killing agent, especially a commercial birth-control preparation, usually a cream or jelly.
- spumescent — foamy; foamlike; frothy.
- spy camera — a hidden, disguised or miniature camera used in espionage
- supermacho — extremely macho
- supermicro — the fastest and most powerful type of microcomputer, with capabilities more commonly associated with minicomputers.
- uncomposed — calm; tranquil; serene: His composed face reassured the nervous passengers.
- zymoscopes — Plural form of zymoscope.