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10-letter words containing t, o, s, p

  • scriptoria — a room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied.
  • scunthorpe — a town in E England, in North Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire: developed rapidly after the discovery of local iron ore in the late 19th century; iron and steel industries have declined. Pop: 72 660 (2001)
  • seal point — a Siamese cat having a fawn-colored body and dark-brown points.
  • seal-point — a Siamese cat having a fawn-colored body and dark-brown points.
  • sebastopol — Sevastopol.
  • semipostal — a postage stamp sold by a government at a premium above its face value, the excess being used for a nonpostal purpose, as a charity.
  • separation — an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
  • separatory — serving to separate.
  • septectomy — excision of part or all of a septum, especially the nasal septum.
  • septillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 24 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 42 zeros.
  • sevastopol — a fortified seaport in the S Crimea, in S Ukraine: famous for its heroic resistance during sieges of 349 days in 1854–55, and 245 days in 1941–42.
  • seven-spot — a playing card the face of which bears seven pips.
  • sextonship — the office of a sexton
  • shape note — a musical note in which the degree of the scale is indicated by the shape of the note's head.
  • shapetools — (tool, programming)   A code management system for Unix from The Technical University of Berlin.
  • shop front — A shop front is the outside part of a shop which faces the street, including the door and windows.
  • shop right — the right of an employer to use an employee's invention without compensating the employee for the use, in cases where the invention was made at the place of and during the hours of employment.
  • shopfitter — a worker who makes and installs fittings for commercial premises
  • shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
  • shreveport — a city in NW Louisiana, on the Red River.
  • sign-posts — a post bearing a sign that gives information or guidance.
  • signposted — A place or route that is signposted has signposts beside the road to show the way.
  • silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
  • sitophobia — abnormal aversion to food.
  • ski troops — a body of soldiers trained to fight on skis.
  • skytrooper — a paratrooper.
  • slip joint — a joint made between an older and a newer masonry wall to form a continuous surface, masonry at the end of the newer wall fitting into a vertical groove cut in the end of the older wall.
  • slop chest — a supply of clothing, boots, tobacco, and other personal goods for sale to the crew of a ship during a voyage.
  • slow pitch — a variety of softball in which the ball is pitched with an underhand motion at moderate speed in an arc that rises at least six feet above the ground
  • slow-pitch — a type of softball with ten players per side and in which each pitch must travel in an arc from three to ten feet high.
  • smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
  • smoothpate — a bald person with a smooth head
  • smudge pot — a container for burning oil or other fuels to produce smudge, as for protecting fruit trees from frost.
  • snow plant — a leafless, parasitic plant, Sarcodes sanguinea, of the pine forests of the Sierra Nevada in California, having a stout spike of bright red flowers, a thickly scaled stem, and a corallike mass of roots.
  • soap plant — a Californian plant, Chlorogalum pomeridianum, of the lily family, the bulb of which was used by the Indians as a soap.
  • sociopathy — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
  • soft paste — any of a variety of artificial porcelains, usually incorporating glass or glass ingredients.
  • soft power — the ability to achieve one's goals without force, esp by diplomacy, persuasion, etc
  • soft-pedal — to use the soft pedal.
  • somatotype — (of humans) physical type; physique.
  • soul patch — a small patch of facial hair below the centre of the lower lip and above the chin
  • soup plate — a deep, concave plate used especially for serving soup.
  • south pass — a mountain pass in SW Wyoming, cutting through the Rocky Mountains at the S of the Wind River range: part of the Oregon Trail.
  • south pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)
  • space shot — the launch of a spacecraft and its subsequent flight in space
  • spaced out — dazed or stupefied because of the influence of narcotic drugs.
  • spaced-out — dazed or stupefied because of the influence of narcotic drugs.
  • spade foot — a square foot, tapering toward its bottom.
  • spallation — a nuclear reaction in which several nucleons are released from the nucleus of an atom.
  • spasmodist — a person who is spasmodic, especially in style, as a writer, painter, etc.
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