10-letter words containing s, p, e, n, c
- creepiness — having or causing a creeping sensation of the skin, as from horror or fear: a creepy ghost story.
- crispiness — The state of being crispy.
- croupiness — the condition of being afflicted with croup
- cyanotypes — Plural form of cyanotype.
- deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- deceptions — Plural form of deception.
- depictions — representation in image form, as in a painting or illustration: Picasso's painting Guernica is an accurate depiction of the horrors of war.
- desciption — Misspelling of description.
- desipience — folly; silliness
- discipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- discrepant — (usually of two or more objects, accounts, findings etc.) differing; disagreeing; inconsistent: discrepant accounts.
- disparency — (proscribed) A significant discrepancy.
- dispencing — Present participle of dispence.
- disprinced — rendered unprincely
- docentship — privatdocent.
- drop scene — a drop curtain, often of painted or dyed canvas, located downstage and used as the backdrop for a scene played while the set upstage is being changed.
- drop scone — a flat spongy cake made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle
- ecphonesis — the use of an exclamatory phrase, as in “O tempore! O mores!”.
- eigenspace — (linear algebra) A set of the eigenvectors associated with a particular eigenvalue, together with the zero vector.
- emancipist — (Australia, historical) In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict who had been pardoned for good conduct; sometimes inclusively a convict whose sentence had completed, though one such was more usually called an expiree.
- encaptures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encapture.
- encopresis — Involuntary defecation, especially associated with emotional disturbance or psychiatric disorder.
- encrypters — Plural form of encrypter.
- endoscopes — Plural form of endoscope.
- endoscopic — Of, or relating to endoscopy or an endoscope.
- entoprocts — Plural form of entoproct.
- epicanthus — (anatomy) A skin fold of the upper eyelid, typical to East Asians.
- epicenters — Plural form of epicenter.
- epicentres — Plural form of epicentre.
- epicureans — Plural form of epicurean.
- episcopant — a bishop
- epsilonics — The study of error in mathematical approximations.
- 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.
- ethnoscape — A transnational distribution of correlated people.
- exceptions — A person or thing that is excluded from a general statement or does not follow a rule.
- excipients — Plural form of excipient.
- fence post — stake or picket of a fence
- gonioscope — an optical instrument used for measuring the angle of the anterior chamber of the eye.
- handpieces — Plural form of handpiece.
- hypersonic — noting or pertaining to speed that is at least five times that of sound in the same medium.
- iconoscope — a television camera tube in which a beam of high-velocity electrons scans a photoemissive mosaic.
- impedances — Plural form of impedance.
- inceptions — Plural form of inception.
- inceptisol — a soil so young that horizons have just begun to form: especially prevalent in tundra areas.
- incomposed — (obsolete) disordered; disturbed.
- inculpates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inculpate.
- insipience — lack of wisdom; foolishness.
- inspecting — Present participle of inspect.
- inspection — the act of inspecting or viewing, especially carefully or critically: an inspection of all luggage on the plane.