10-letter words starting with spe
- speak-easy — a place where alcoholic drinks are sold illegally, esp. such a place in the U.S. during Prohibition
- speakerine — a female television or radio announcer
- speakingly — in an eloquent manner
- spear side — the male side, or line of descent, of a family (opposed to distaff side or spindle side).
- spearpoint — the point at the end of a spearhead.
- spec cfp92 — (benchmark) A benchmark suite from SPEC containing 14 programs performing floating-point computations. 12 are written in Fortran and two in C. They can be used to estimate the performance of CPU, memory system, and compiler code generation. The individual programs are Circuit Design, Simulation (2x), Quantum Chemistry (3x), Electromagnetism, Geometric Translation, Optics, Robotics, Medical Simulation, Quantum Physics, Astrophysics, NASA Kernels. The benchmark suite can be used either for speed measurement, resulting in SPEC ratios, or for throughput measurement, resulting in SPEC rates
- 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.
- spec sheet — a list describing the specifications of a product or property that is for sale
- specialise — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- specialism — devotion or restriction to a particular pursuit, branch of study, etc.
- specialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
- speciality — specialty.
- specialize — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- speciation — the formation of new species as a result of geographic, physiological, anatomical, or behavioral factors that prevent previously interbreeding populations from breeding with each other.
- speciesism — discrimination in favor of one species, usually the human species, over another, especially in the exploitation or mistreatment of animals by humans.
- speciocide — the elimination of an entire species
- speciosity — the quality or state of being specious.
- speciously — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
- specmark89 — (benchmark) An old SPECmark benchmark result derived from a set of floating-point and integer benchmarks. It is the geometric mean of ten SPEC ratios of the outdated 1989 SPEC benchmark suite. The use of SPECmark89 is strongly discouraged, having been superseded by CINT92 and CFP92.
- spectacled — wearing spectacles.
- spectacles — anything presented to the sight or view, especially something of a striking or impressive kind: The stars make a fine spectacle tonight.
- spectating — to participate as a spectator, as at a horse race.
- spectatrix — a female spectator
- spectrally — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- speculated — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- speech act — any of the acts that may be performed by a speaker in making an utterance, as stating, asking, requesting, advising, warning, or persuading, considered in terms of the content of the message, the intention of the speaker, and the effect on the listener.
- speech day — In some British schools, speech day is a day, usually at the end of the school year, when prizes are presented to pupils and speeches are made by guest speakers and the head teacher.
- speechless — temporarily deprived of speech by strong emotion, physical weakness, exhaustion, etc.: speechless with alarm.
- speed bump — a rounded ridge built crosswise into the pavement of a road or driveway to force vehicles to slow down.
- speed dial — phone feature: calling a number automatically
- speed gear — an adjustable gear for driving a machine at various speeds.
- speed hump — bump in road that slows traffic
- speed ramp — a raised band across a road, designed to make motorists reduce their speed, esp in built-up areas
- speed shop — a garage that specializes in fitting cars, especially hot rods, with custom-made mechanical equipment for racing.
- speed trap — a section of a road where hidden police, radar, etc., carefully check the speed of motorists and strictly enforce traffic regulations: sometimes characterized by hard-to-see signals, hidden traffic signs, etc.
- speed zone — an area where a different, usually reduced, speed limit is in effect
- speed-dial — to dial (a telephone number) using speed dial.
- speedfreak — an addict or habitual user of amphetamines, methamphetamines, or similar stimulating drugs.
- speedfully — in a quick or effective manner
- speediness — characterized by speed; rapid; swift; fast.
- speedwalks — power walking.
- speleology — the exploration and study of caves.
- speleothem — a natural structure within a cave
- spellbound — bound by or as if by a spell; enchanted, entranced, or fascinated: a spellbound audience.
- spellcheck — If you spellcheck something you have written on a computer, you use a special program to check whether you have made any spelling mistakes.
- spellingly — one letter at a time
- spellstopt — immobilized by magic
- spelunking — to explore caves, especially as a hobby.
- spencerian — pertaining to or characteristic of a system of penmanship, characterized by clear, rounded letters slanting to the right.
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