9-letter words containing a, c, e, n, t
- ketchikan — a seaport in SE Alaska: transportation and communications center.
- kinematic — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
- lace into — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- lacertian — of or relating to lizards, or like a lizard
- lacertine — belonging or relating to a lacertid
- laciniate — cut into narrow, irregular lobes; slashed; jagged.
- lancaster — the English royal family that reigned 1399–1461, descended from John of Gaunt (Duke of Lancaster), and that included Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI. Compare York (def 1).
- lancelets — Plural form of lancelet.
- lancinate — to stab or pierce.
- larcenist — a person who commits larceny.
- latencies — Plural form of latency.
- latescent — becoming latent
- launcelot — Arthurian Romance. the greatest of Arthur's knights and the lover of Queen Guinevere.
- lunchmeat — luncheon meat.
- machinate — Engage in plots and intrigues; scheme.
- magnetics — the science of magnetism.
- manchette — armpad.
- mancipate — (obsolete) To enslave.
- manducate — to chew; masticate; eat.
- manticore — a legendary monster with a man's head, horns, a lion's body, and the tail of a dragon or, sometimes, a scorpion.
- mccartney — (Sir) (James) Paul, born 1942, English singer, songwriter, and bass guitarist for the Beatles.
- mechanist — a person who believes in the theory of mechanism.
- megatonic — one million tons.
- melanitic — containing, or relating to, melanite
- melanotic — of or affected with melanosis.
- mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
- mendicant — begging; practicing begging; living on alms.
- mendicate — (ambitransitive) To beg.
- meniscate — resembling a meniscus
- mercaptan — any of a class of sulfur-containing compounds having the type formula RSH, in which R represents a radical, and having an extremely offensive, garlicky odor.
- merchants — a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- metarchon — a nontoxic substance, such as a chemical to mask pheromones, that reduces the persistence of a pest
- metrician — a metrist.
- militance — (uncountable) The condition of being militant.
- mincemeat — a mixture composed of minced apples, suet, and sometimes meat, together with raisins, currants, candied citron, etc., for filling a pie.
- minecraft — a type of warship for sweeping mines at sea.
- miscreant — depraved, villainous, or base.
- monacetin — acetin.
- mucronate — having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.
- muscatine — a city in E Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- mutagenic — capable of inducing mutation or increasing its rate.
- nahcolite — a carbonate mineral, naturally occurring sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO 3 .
- nanticoke — a member of an extinct North American Indian people who inhabited Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
- nantucket — an island off SE Massachusetts: summer resort. 15 miles (24 km) long.
- narcotine — An alkaloid found in opium; noscapine.
- narcotise — Alternative spelling of narcotize.
- narcotize — to subject to or treat with a narcotic; stupefy.
- navicerts — Plural form of navicert.
- neat hack — 1. A clever technique. 2. A brilliant practical joke, where neatness is correlated with cleverness, harmlessness, and surprise value. Example: the Caltech Rose Bowl card display switch. See also hack.
- nectareal — of, relating to, or resembling nectar