9-letter words containing a, c, r, e, t
- relocator — a program designed to transfer files from one computer to another
- reluctant — unwilling; disinclined: a reluctant candidate.
- reluctate — to show reluctance.
- renascent — being reborn; springing again into being or vigor: a renascent interest in Henry James.
- replicant — an android that is indistinguishable from a human being
- replicate — Also, replicated. folded; bent back on itself.
- rest camp — a camp where soldiers rest
- reticella — a form of lace popular from the 15th to the 17th centuries
- reticular — having the form of a net; netlike.
- retractor — a person or thing that retracts.
- retropack — a system of retrorockets on a spacecraft
- revictual — to victual or provide with food again
- rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rhotacize — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- ricercata — Music. a chiefly polyphonic instrumental form of the 16th and 17th centuries closely resembling the vocal motet in structure and style.
- rocinante — Rosinante.
- rockwater — water that comes out of rock
- rotachute — a device serving the same purpose as a parachute, in which the canopy is replaced by freely revolving rotor blades, used for the delivery of stores or recovery of missiles
- rubricate — to mark or color with red.
- runcinate — (of a leaf) pinnately incised, with the lobes or teeth curved backward.
- runecraft — understanding of and skill working with runes
- rusticate — to go to the country.
- rutaceous — of or like rue.
- sacrament — Ecclesiastical. a visible sign of an inward grace, especially one of the solemn Christian rites considered to have been instituted by Jesus Christ to symbolize or confer grace: the sacraments of the Protestant churches are baptism and the Lord's Supper; the sacraments of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches are baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, matrimony, penance, holy orders, and extreme unction.
- saluretic — of or relating to a substance that promotes renal excretion of sodium and chloride ions.
- scarpetto — a type of shoe traditionally worn by Alpine climbers
- scattered — distributed or occurring at widely spaced and usually irregular intervals: scattered villages; scattered showers.
- scatterer — to throw loosely about; distribute at irregular intervals: to scatter seeds.
- scelerate — a villain, or extremely wicked person; a criminal
- scenarist — a writer of motion-picture or television scenarios.
- schvartze — a term used by some Jewish people to refer to a black person.
- sclerotal — a bony area or plate found in the sclerotic (the eyeball covering) of some animals
- scrapegut — a fiddle player
- scratcher — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- scratches — Old Scratch; Satan.
- scratchie — a scratchcard
- scrutable — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
- secateurs — scissors or shears, especially pruning shears.
- secretage — the use of mercury in treating or felting furs
- secretary — a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.: the secretary of the Linguistic Society of America.
- sectarial — distinguishing or differentiating a sect
- sectarian — of or relating to sectaries or sects.
- sectorial — of or relating to a sector.
- securitan — a person believing they are secure
- shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
- sidetrack — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
- spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.
- sparticle — a hypothetical elementary particle thought to have been produced in the Big Bang
- spec rate — (benchmark) Results of the throughput measurement using SPEC benchmark suites CINT92 and CFP92. With the throughput measurement method, several copies of a given benchmark are executed. The method is particularly suitable for multiprocessor systems. The results, called SPEC rate, express how many jobs of a particular type (characterised by the individual benchmark) can be executed in a given time (The SPEC reference time happens to be a week, the execution times are normalized with respect to a VAX 11/780). The SPEC rates therefore characterise the capacity of a system for compute-intensive jobs of similar characteristics. See also SPEC ratio.
- spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.