9-letter words containing a, c, o, s, t, e
- encomiast — A person who publicly praises or flatters someone else.
- escalator — A moving staircase consisting of an endlessly circulating belt of steps driven by a motor, conveying people between the floors of a public building.
- escargots — (US) Cooked land snails, usually served as an appetizer or starter.
- escheator — a person appointed to deal with escheats
- escortage — the act of escorting
- esoterica — Esoteric or highly specialized subjects or publications.
- exactions — Plural form of exaction.
- facetious — not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
- factories — A building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine.
- factorise — (mathematics): To create a list of factors.
- falconets — Plural form of falconet.
- footraces — Plural form of footrace.
- forecasts — Plural form of forecast.
- foscarnet — a drug used to treat herpes viruses
- galactose — a white, crystalline, water-soluble hexose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , obtained in its dextrorotatory form from milk sugar by hydrolysis and in its levorotatory form from mucilages.
- geomatics — The discipline of gathering, storing, processing, and delivering geographic information.
- geostatic — of or relating to pressure exerted by the weight of overlying rock.
- headstock — the part of a machine containing or directly supporting the moving or working parts, as the assembly supporting and driving the live spindle in a lathe.
- hecatombs — Plural form of hecatomb.
- horsecart — A cart drawn by a horse.
- hot sauce — any of several highly spiced, pungent condiments, especially one containing some type of pepper or chili.
- housecats — Plural form of housecat.
- housecoat — a woman's robe or dresslike garment in various lengths, for casual wear about the house.
- isocrates — 436–338 b.c, Athenian orator.
- isooctane — the octane C 8 H 18 , used as one of the standards in establishing the octane number of a fuel.
- jackstone — jack1 (def 5a, b).
- jacobsite — a rare magnetic mineral, manganese iron oxide, MnFe 2 O 4 , similar to magnetite.
- lactulose — (organic compound) A disaccharide of galactose and fructose formed when milk is heated.
- locatives — Plural form of locative.
- masoretic — of or relating to the Masorah or the Masoretes.
- mastocyte — Mast cell.
- metascope — a device for converting infrared radiation into visible light.
- mislocate — to misplace.
- moot case — a case dealing with an abstract question, or one seeking a judgement on a right before the right has been asserted
- moschatel — a small plant, Adoxa moschatellina, having greenish or yellowish flowers with a musky odor.
- moustache — the hair growing on the upper lip.
- narcotise — Alternative spelling of narcotize.
- nectarous — of the nature of or resembling nectar.
- notecards — An ambitious hypertext system developed at Xerox PARC, "designed to support the task of transforming a chaotic collection of unrelated thoughts into an integrated, orderly interpretation of ideas and their interconnections".
- notecases — Plural form of notecase.
- obfuscate — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obsecrate — to entreat solemnly; beseech; supplicate.
- obstacles — Plural form of obstacle.
- oceanites — Plural form of oceanite.
- octastyle — having eight columns in the front, as a temple or portico.
- oldcastle — Sir John (Lord Cobham) 1377–1417, English martyr: leader of a Lollard conspiracy; executed for treason and heresy; model for Shakespeare's Falstaff.
- opacities — the state or quality of being opaque.
- open-cast — open-cut.
- operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
- orchestra — a group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions.