10-letter words containing s, t, e, r, o, p
- spirometer — an instrument for determining the capacity of the lungs.
- spirometry — an instrument for determining the capacity of the lungs.
- spleenwort — any of various temperate and tropical ferns of the genera Asplenium and Diplazium, certain species of which are grown as ornamentals.
- sporocytes — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sporophyte — the form of a plant in the alternation of generations that produces asexual spores.
- sporozoite — one of the minute, active bodies into which the spore of certain Sporozoa divides, each developing into an adult individual.
- sportiness — flashy; showy.
- sportswear — clothing designed for wear while playing golf or tennis, hiking, bicycling, jogging, etc.; activewear.
- spot meter — an exposure meter that measures light reflected from only a small area of a subject or scene.
- spot price — the price of spot goods or of commodities on the spot market.
- spread out — extend, splay
- stenograph — any of various keyboard instruments, somewhat resembling a typewriter, used for writing in shorthand, as by means of phonetic or arbitrary symbols.
- stenotyper — a machine with a keyboard for recording speeches or dictation in phonetic shorthand
- stepmother — the wife of one's father by a later marriage.
- stereopair — a pair of photographs of the same area taken from slightly different positions so as to give a stereoscopic effect when properly mounted and viewed.
- stereopsis — stereoscopic vision; the ability to perceive depth.
- stereotape — magnetic tape used for recording and reproducing sound stereophonically.
- stereotype — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- stereotypy — the stereotype process.
- stop order — an order from a customer to a broker to sell a security if the market price drops below a designated level.
- stop press — Stop press is sometimes printed next to an article in a newspaper to indicate that this is very recent news and was added after the rest of the newspaper had been printed.
- stop price — the price at which a stop order is activated.
- stop-frame — Also called stop frame. the process of filming puppets and other objects one frame at a time while incrementally moving or modifying them, giving the illusion of lifelike motion when the captured film frames are viewed in rapid sequence (often used attributively): stop-motion animation; a stop-motion film.
- streperous — boisterous, loud, or harsh-sounding
- strepitoso — (to be performed) boisterously
- strepitous — boisterous; noisy.
- strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
- stud poker — a variety of poker in which each player is dealt one card face down in the first round and one card face up in each of the next four rounds, each of the last four rounds being followed by a betting interval. Compare seven-card stud.
- subproject — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- subreption — Canon Law. a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant. Compare obreption (def 1).
- superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
- superscout — a highly skilled scout
- superstock — an exceptionally lucrative investment
- superstore — a very large store, especially one stocking a wide variety of merchandise.
- superstorm — a very severe and widespread storm characterized by record-setting meteorological events and large-scale destruction: The superstorm brought a 15-foot storm surge to the harbor.
- supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
- suppletory — supplying a deficiency.
- supportive — giving support.
- team sport — a sport in which teams play against each other
- teleport's — a regional telecommunications network that provides access to communications satellites and other long distance media; telecommunications hub.
- teliospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
- tetrapolis — a conglomeration of four cities
- tetraspore — one of the four asexual spores produced within a tetrasporangium.
- thesprotia — an ancient coastal district in SW Epirus.
- three-spot — a playing card, an upward face of a die, or a domino half bearing three pips.
- toolpusher — a foreman who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig
- top secret — highly confidential, restricted
- top-secret — bearing the classification top-secret, the highest level of classified information.
- torpedoist — a person in favour of the use of torpedoes or a person knowledgeable about torpedoes
- torpescent — becoming torpid