10-letter words containing s, t, i, p, e
- stepfamily — a family composed of a parent, a stepparent, and a child or children by a previous marriage.
- stephanite — a mineral, silver antimony sulfide, Ag 5 SbS 4 : an ore of silver.
- stephen ii — died a.d. 757, pope 752–757.
- stephen iv — died a.d. 817, pope 816–817.
- stephen ix — died 1058, pope 1057–58.
- stephen vi — died a.d. 897, pope 896–897.
- stepsister — one's stepfather's or stepmother's daughter by a previous 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.
- stimpmeter — a machine used in golf to measure the speed of a putting green
- stipulated — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- stone pine — Also called umbrella pine, parasol pine. a tree, Pinus pinea, native to southern Europe, having branches forming an umbrellalike crown and bearing edible, nutlike seeds.
- stop price — the price at which a stop order is activated.
- stovepipes — a pipe, as of sheet metal, serving as a stove chimney or to connect a stove with a chimney flue.
- strepitoso — (to be performed) boisterously
- strepitous — boisterous; noisy.
- strike pay — strike benefit.
- strip mine — A strip mine is a mine in which the coal, metal, or mineral is near the surface, and so underground passages are not needed.
- stripeless — without stripes
- stripiness — the state or quality of being stripy
- strippable — Mining. of or relating to ore or coal that can be produced by strip mining.
- striptease — a burlesque act in which a dancer removes garments one at a time to the accompaniment of music.
- strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
- stuck pipe — Stuck pipe happens when part of the drillpipe cannot be turned or moved up or down.
- stupefying — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- stupidness — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
- subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
- subpontine — of or relating to the Pontine Marshes.
- subprimate — a primitive variety of primate
- 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).
- sulphatise — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
- superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
- superbitch — an exceptionally spiteful woman, a very bitchy person
- superelite — (often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
- superlight — extremely light
- superpaint — (graphics) A pioneering graphics program and framebuffer computer system developed by Richard Shoup at Xerox PARC. Design started in 1972 and the system produced its first stable image in April 1973. SuperPaint was one of the first computers used for creative work, video editing and animation, all which would become major sections within the entertainment industry and major components of industrial design. SuperPaint had a graphical user interface and could capture images from video input or combine them with digital data. SuperPaint was the first program with features such as changing hue, saturation and value, a colour palette, custom polygons and lines, virtual paintbrushes and pencils, auto-filling of images and anti-aliasing.
- superthick — extremely thick
- supertight — extremely tight
- supertitle — (especially in opera production) a translation of a segment of the libretto or other text or sometimes a brief summary of the plot projected onto a screen above the stage during a performance.
- supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
- supertwist — the effect of twisting light rays to produce a high-resolution liquid crystal display
- suppertime — the time at which supper is served, usually between the hours of 5 and 7 p.m.
- suppletion — the use in inflection or derivation of an allomorph that is not related in form to the primary allomorph of a morpheme, as the use of better as the comparative of good.
- suppletive — serving as an inflected form of a word with a totally different stem, as went, the suppletive past of go.
- supplicate — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
- supportive — giving support.
- suretyship — the relationship between the surety, the principal debtor, and the creditor.
- susceptive — receptive.
- suscipient — a recipient