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11-letter words containing t, e, s, p, i

  • scotch pine — a pine, Pinus sylvestris, of Eurasia, having a reddish trunk and twisted, bluish-green needles.
  • sea captain — the master of a seagoing vessel.
  • seepage pit — a pit that is lined with a porous, mortarless masonry wall in which effluent from a septic tank is collected for gradual seepage into the ground, sometimes used as a substitute for a drainfield.
  • self-profit — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
  • semipalmate — partially or imperfectly palmate, as a bird's foot; half-webbed.
  • semiplastic — imperfectly plastic; in a state between rigidity and plasticity.
  • semiprivate — having some degree of privacy but not fully private, as a hospital room with fewer beds than a ward.
  • sempiternal — everlasting; eternal.
  • sempiternum — a type of durable woollen fabric popular in the 17th century
  • sempstering — the profession of being a tailor
  • senatorship — the office or position of a senator
  • septembrist — a person who instigated or took part in the September Massacre.
  • septemviral — of or relating to septemvirs or a septemvirate.
  • septenarius — a verse consisting of seven feet, usually printed in two lines: used especially in Latin poems.
  • septentrion — Obsolete. the north.
  • septic tank — a tank in which solid organic sewage is decomposed and purified by anaerobic bacteria.
  • septicaemia — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
  • septiferous — in possession of a septum or partition
  • septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
  • septivalent — having a valence of seven; heptavalent.
  • serendipity — an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
  • serial port — A serial port on a computer is a place where you can connect the computer to a device such as a modem or a mouse.
  • serpentinic — of, relating to, or containing the mineral serpentine
  • serpentlike — resembling a serpent
  • shine up to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
  • shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
  • sign-posted — a post bearing a sign that gives information or guidance.
  • silverpoint — a technique of drawing with a silver stylus on specially prepared paper.
  • simon peter — Peter (def 1).
  • simple time — a metre in music in which each beat or part divides equally into two
  • simpliciter — simply
  • single tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
  • single-step — to perform a single instruction on (a program), generally under the control of a debug program
  • six-pointer — a football match between two teams in similar positions in the league table, considered as being worth six points as it not only gains the winning team three points but denies three points to the losing team
  • skeptically — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
  • skip tracer — an investigator whose job is to locate missing persons, especially debtors.
  • sleep on it — contemplate sth overnight
  • sleep tight — Sleep well
  • slipperette — a disposable slipper, often of paper, as for wear during a long airplane or train trip.
  • slipperwort — any of several tropical American plants belonging to the genus Calceolaria, of the figwort family, having opposite or whorled leaves and slipper-shaped flowers.
  • slit pocket — a pocket on the underside of a garment, reached through a vertical opening
  • smoke point — heat at which oil gives off smoke
  • soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite
  • sophistries — Sophistries are clever arguments that sound convincing but are in fact false.
  • sopping wet — soaked, dripping
  • spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
  • spaghettini — pasta in the form of long thin strings
  • spec cint92 — (benchmark)   A benchmark suite from SPEC, which contains six benchmarks in C performing integer computations. They can be used to estimate the performance of CPU, memory system, and compiler code generation. The individual programs are Logic Design (2x), Interpreter, Data Compression, Spreadsheet. The approximate size of the suite is 85500 lines of source code without comments. The benchmark suite can be used either for speed measurement, resulting in SPEC ratios, or for throughput measurement, resulting in SPEC rates
  • special act — a legislative act that applies only to specific persons or to a specific area.
  • specialties — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
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