10-letter words containing s, p, e, c, t
- 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.
- spec sheet — a list describing the specifications of a product or property that is for sale
- specialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
- speciality — specialty.
- 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.
- speciosity — the quality or state of being specious.
- spectacled — wearing spectacles.
- spectacles — anything presented to the sight or view, especially something of a striking or impressive kind: The stars make a fine spectacle tonight.
- spectating — to participate as a spectator, as at a horse race.
- spectatrix — a female spectator
- spectrally — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- speculated — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- speech act — any of the acts that may be performed by a speaker in making an utterance, as stating, asking, requesting, advising, warning, or persuading, considered in terms of the content of the message, the intention of the speaker, and the effect on the listener.
- 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
- sphacelate — affected with gangrene
- sphericity — a spherical state or form.
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- spiculated — covered with spicules or needle-like
- spiflicate — to destroy; annihilate
- spinescent — Botany. becoming spinelike. ending in a spine. bearing spines.
- 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.
- split cane — bamboo split into strips of triangular section, tapered, and glued to form a stiff but flexible hexagonal rod: used, esp formerly, for making fishing rods
- sporocytes — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- spot check — impromptu inspection
- spot price — the price of spot goods or of commodities on the spot market.
- spot-check — to examine or investigate by means of a spot check.
- spumescent — foamy; foamlike; frothy.
- spycatcher — a person who works in counterintelligence to detect enemy espionage activities
- statoscope — an aneroid barometer for registering minute variations of atmospheric pressure.
- 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.
- step dance — a dance in which the steps are the most important characteristic, specifically a solo dance with intricate, vigorous steps, often performed with the hands kept in the pockets.
- stepdancer — a person who engages in stepdancing
- stop price — the price at which a stop order is activated.
- stuck pipe — Stuck pipe happens when part of the drillpipe cannot be turned or moved up or down.
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
- suboctuple — in the proportion or ratio of one to eight
- subpotency — a condition of reduced potency, as of a medication.
- subprefect — an administrator junior to a prefect or chief official
- subproject — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- superacute — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- superbitch — an exceptionally spiteful woman, a very bitchy person
- superfecta — a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor must select the first four finishers in exact order.
- superscout — a highly skilled scout
- superstock — an exceptionally lucrative investment
- superthick — extremely thick
- supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.