10-letter words containing y, p, e
- spin-dryer — to remove moisture from (laundry) by centrifugal force, as in an automatic washing machine.
- spinsterly — relating to or resembling a spinster
- spirometry — an instrument for determining the capacity of the lungs.
- splay-feet — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- splendidly — gorgeous; magnificent; sumptuous. Synonyms: luxurious, dazzling, imposing. Antonyms: squalid.
- sporocytes — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sporophyte — the form of a plant in the alternation of generations that produces asexual spores.
- spoylefull — plundering
- spreaghery — the activity or crime of raiding cattle
- spy camera — a hidden, disguised or miniature camera used in espionage
- spycatcher — a person who works in counterintelligence to detect enemy espionage activities
- staphyline — having a form resembling a bunch of grapes
- stay-press — (of fabric or clothing) treated so as to retain a freshly ironed look after washing.
- stenotyper — a machine with a keyboard for recording speeches or dictation in phonetic shorthand
- stepfamily — a family composed of a parent, a stepparent, and a child or children by a previous marriage.
- stereotype — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- stereotypy — the stereotype process.
- strathspey — a slow Scottish dance in quadruple meter.
- strike pay — strike benefit.
- stupefying — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- stylophone — a type of battery-powered electronic instrument played with a steel-tipped penlike stylus
- subpotency — a condition of reduced potency, as of a medication.
- superalloy — an alloy, often with a nickel, nickel-iron, or cobalt base, capable of withstanding very high temperatures, used in jet engines, rockets, etc.
- supercycle — any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated.
- superheavy — Chemistry, Physics. pertaining to any of a series of elements having an atomic number greater than 103.
- superiorly — higher in station, rank, degree, importance, etc.: a superior officer.
- supernanny — an expert who advises parents on how to deal with badly-behaved children
- suppletory — supplying a deficiency.
- supplyment — the act of supplying; replenishment
- supposedly — assumed as true, regardless of fact; hypothetical: a supposed case.
- suretyship — the relationship between the surety, the principal debtor, and the creditor.
- suspensory — a supporting bandage, muscle, ligament, etc.
- sylphidine — resembling a sylph
- sympathies — harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
- sympathise — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
- sympathize — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
- symphonize — to play or sound together harmoniously.
- symptomize — to be a symptom or sign of.
- synaloepha — the blending of two successive vowels into one, especially the coalescence of a vowel at the end of one word with a vowel at the beginning of the next.
- syncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
- synopsises — to make a synopsis of; summarize.
- tachypneic — excessively rapid respiration.
- tachypnoea — excessively rapid respiration.
- telegraphy — the art or practice of constructing or operating telegraphs.
- teletypist — a person who operates a teletypewriter.
- temporally — of or relating to time.
- temporalty — secular things
- terpolymer — a polymer consisting of three different monomers, as ABS resin.
- tetrapylon — a structure having four gateways as features of an architectural composition.
- therophyte — a plant living only one year or one growing season.