10-letter words containing t, r, i, s, o, c
- osmometric — Relating to osmometry.
- osterreich — German name of Austria.
- ostracised — Simple past tense and past participle of ostracise.
- ostracises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ostracise.
- ostracized — Simple past tense and past participle of ostracize.
- ostracizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ostracize.
- ostrichism — the act of refusing to accept reality or hiding one's head in the sand
- outscoring — Present participle of outscore.
- overstitch — a stitch made with a sewing machine, for binding or finishing a raw edge or hem.
- parodistic — parodic.
- pectoralis — either of two muscles on each side of the upper and anterior part of the thorax, the action of the larger (pectoralis major) assisting in drawing the shoulder forward and rotating the arm inward, and the action of the smaller (pectoralis minor) assisting in drawing the shoulder downward and forward.
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- pictorials — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
- pitchforks — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- portcullis — (especially in medieval castles) a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage.
- postcrisis — taking place after a crisis
- postscript — a paragraph, phrase, etc., added to a letter that has already been concluded and signed by the writer.
- potsticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
- prebiotics — natural substances in some foods that encourage the growth of healthy bacteria in the gut
- preciosity — fastidious or carefully affected refinement, as in language, style, or taste.
- prick-post — (in a framed structure) a secondary post, as a queen post.
- prime cost — that part of the cost of a commodity deriving from the labor and materials directly utilized in its manufacture.
- probiotics — a therapeutic treatment involving the ingestion of harmless bacteria
- profascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- prognostic — of or relating to prognosis.
- prosciutto — salted ham that has been cured by drying, always sliced paper-thin for serving.
- prosecting — to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- prosthetic — of or relating to an artificial body part or prosthesis: He was fitted for a prosthetic arm.
- proteomics — the study of the functions, structures, and interactions of proteins; the study of the proteome.
- protoctist — (in modern biological classifications) any unicellular or simple multicellular organism belonging to the kingdom Protoctista, which includes protozoans, algae, and slime moulds
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- rediscount — to discount again.
- restrictor — to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
- rheostatic — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
- roboticist — a specialist in robots or robotics.
- roscoelite — a brown variety of muscovite in which some aluminum is replaced by vanadium.
- rothschild — Lionel Nathan, Baron de ("Lord Natty") 1809–79, English banker: first Jewish member of Parliament (son of Nathan Meyer Rothschild).
- royalistic — relating to a royalist
- rusticator — to go to the country.
- sclerotial — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- sclerotium — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- sclerotize — to harden and darken (an insect's cuticle)
- scriptoria — a room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied.
- scrutinous — strict, thorough
- siderocyte — an erythrocyte that contains iron in forms other than hematin.
- sociometry — the measurement of attitudes of social acceptance or rejection through expressed preferences among members of a social grouping.
- soricident — having shrewlike teeth
- spec ratio — (benchmark) Results for each individual benchmark of the SPEC benchmark suites, for example CINT92 and CFP92, expressed as the ratio of the wall clock time to execute one single copy of the benchmark, compared to a fixed "SPEC reference time", which was chosen early-on as the execution time on a VAX 11/780. See also SPEC rate.
- spirochete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
- spot price — the price of spot goods or of commodities on the spot market.