10-letter words containing s, p, i, c, e, l
- publicness — the quality or state of being public or being owned by the public.
- riflescope — a telescopic sight mounted on top of a rifle that helps to improve one's aim by magnifying and pinpointing a target.
- sale price — discounted cost
- 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.
- screw pile — a pile that is used for the foundations of bridges, lighthouses, etc., and has a screwlike lower end for drilling through and taking firm hold in compacted material.
- semipublic — partly or to some degree public.
- septicidal — (of a capsule) dehiscing lengthwise along a septum.
- silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
- 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.
- soil creep — creep of soil on even slopes; often accelerated by spring freeze-and-thaw or general periglacial conditions. Compare creep (def 22a).
- specialise — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- specialism — devotion or restriction to a particular pursuit, branch of study, etc.
- specialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
- speciality — specialty.
- specialize — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- speciously — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
- spice lisp — (language) A flavour of Lisp, the sources of which (in Lisp) are available from CMU.
- spiculated — covered with spicules or needle-like
- spiflicate — to destroy; annihilate
- 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
- supercilia — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
- suppliance — appeal; entreaty; plea; supplication: He knelt in an attitude of suppliance.
- supplicate — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
- telescopic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a telescope.
- telescript — A communications-oriented programming language using "active software agents", released by General Magic in 1994. What PostScript did for cross-platform, device-independent documents, Telescript aims to do for cross-platform, network-independent messaging. Telescript protects programmers from many of the complexities of network protocols.
- triple sec — a type of curaçao liqueur.
- un-spliced — to join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands.
- uneclipsed — not obscured or overshadowed