9-letter words containing t, p, i, e, c
- set piece — an arrangement of slow-burning fireworks forming a design or composition when lighted.
- sheeptick — a wingless, bloodsucking, dipterous insect, Melophagus ovinus, that is parasitic on sheep.
- skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
- spacesuit — a sealed and pressurized suit designed to allow the wearer to leave a pressurized cabin in outer space or at extremely high altitudes within the atmosphere.
- sparticle — a hypothetical elementary particle thought to have been produced in the Big Bang
- specialty — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
- specint92 — (benchmark) A benchmark result derived from the results of a set of integer benchmarks from SPEC (geometric mean of the 6 SPEC ratios of CINT92) which can be used to estimate a machine's single-tasking performance on integer code. SPECint92 obsoletes SPECint89. See also SPECbase_int92.
- spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
- sphincter — a circular band of voluntary or involuntary muscle that encircles an orifice of the body or one of its hollow organs.
- spiculate — having the form of a spicule.
- splenetic — of the spleen; splenic.
- stenopaic — (of an optic device) having a narrow opening devised to improve eyesight by limiting obscurations
- stenopeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
- stepchair — a set of steps folding into a chair.
- stepchild — a child of one's spouse by a previous marriage.
- stockpile — a supply of material, as a pile of gravel in road maintenance.
- supercity — a large, heavily populated urban area that includes several cities; megalopolis.
- sylleptic — the use of a word or expression to perform two syntactic functions, especially to modify two or more words of which at least one does not agree in number, case, or gender, as the use of are in Neither he nor we are willing.
- tailpiece — a piece added at the end; an end piece or appendage.
- the pinch — sharp, painful, or extreme stress, need, etc
- tie clasp — an ornamental metal clasp for securing the two ends of a necktie to a shirt front.
- time copy — written material set in type and held for future use. Compare filler (def 5).
- timepiece — an apparatus for measuring and recording the progress of time; chronometer.
- to pieces — into shreds or small bits
- toe-piece — the forward part of the device fixed to a ski to grip a ski boot, for either water skiing or snow skiing
- two-piece — having or consisting of two parts or pieces, especially two matching pieces of a clothing ensemble: a two-piece bathing suit.
- unpredict — to retract or annul (a previous prediction)
- vitascope — one of the first motion-picture projectors, developed by Thomas Edison.
- waterpick — a portable electric appliance that uses a stream of water under force to remove food particles from between the teeth and to massage the gums.
- whitecaps — Plural form of whitecap.
- zoetropic — of or relating to a zoetrope