9-letter words containing a, n, e, c
- recountal — an act of recounting.
- recreancy — cowardly or craven.
- rectangle — a parallelogram having four right angles.
- recusancy — the state of being recusant.
- red china — China, People's Republic of.
- redaction — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- reductant — a reducing agent which as it is oxidized is capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance
- refinance — to finance again.
- rein back — To rein back something such as spending means to control it strictly.
- relevance — the condition of being relevant, or connected with the matter at hand: Some traditional institutions of the media lack relevance in this digital age.
- relevancy — the condition of being relevant, or connected with the matter at hand: Some traditional institutions of the media lack relevance in this digital age.
- reluctant — unwilling; disinclined: a reluctant candidate.
- remanence — the magnetic flux that remains in a magnetic circuit after an applied magnetomotive force has been removed.
- renascent — being reborn; springing again into being or vigor: a renascent interest in Henry James.
- replacing — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- replicant — an android that is indistinguishable from a human being
- resonance — the state or quality of being resonant.
- rice bean — a twining southern Asian vine, Vigna umbellata, of the legume family, cultivated for its edible seeds.
- rocinante — Rosinante.
- romanesco — a variety of green cauliflower
- rosecrans — William Starke [stahrk] /stɑrk/ (Show IPA), 1819–98, U.S. general.
- rounceval — a variety of large pea
- runcinate — (of a leaf) pinnately incised, with the lobes or teeth curved backward.
- runecraft — understanding of and skill working with runes
- 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.
- sagenitic — relating to sagenite
- saliaunce — an onslaught
- saracenic — History/Historical. a member of any of the nomadic tribes on the Syrian borders of the Roman Empire.
- sarbacane — a type of blowpipe
- sarcodine — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- sarcosine — a crystalline compound, C 3 H 7 NO 2 , with a sweet taste, soluble in water, slightly soluble in alcohol: used in the manufacture of toothpaste, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals.
- sassenach — a term used by the Gaelic inhabitants of the British Isles to refer to the English inhabitants.
- sauciness — impertinent; insolent: a saucy remark; a saucy child.
- say uncle — a brother of one's father or mother.
- scale pan — one of the pans of a balance
- scaledown — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
- scaliness — a scaly quality or condition
- scamander — ancient name of the river Menderes.
- scan line — (hardware) A horizontal line of pixels generated by a single horizontal sweep of the beam from a monitor's electron gun. The number of scanlines that make up a frame is the vertical resolution.
- scannable — to glance at or over or read hastily: to scan a page.
- scantness — barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate: to do scant justice.
- scariness — the state or quality of being scary
- scarpines — an instrument for torturing feet
- scavenger — an animal or other organism that feeds on dead organic matter.
- scenarios — an outline of the plot of a dramatic work, giving particulars as to the scenes, characters, situations, etc.
- scenarist — a writer of motion-picture or television scenarios.
- scenarize — to make or create a scenario of something
- schatchen — shadkhan.
- schiavone — the Italian name for a 17th century basket-hilted sword with a double edge
- schnapper — a food fish, Pagrosomus auratus, occurring in large numbers off the shores of Australia and New Zealand.