9-letter words containing a, r, c, t, i
- recaption — the taking back without violence of one's property or a member of one's family or household unlawfully in the possession or custody of another.
- recaution — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- rechabite — a total abstainer from alcoholic drink, esp a member of the Independent Order of Rechabites, a society devoted to abstention
- recitable — to repeat the words of, as from memory, especially in a formal manner: to recite a lesson.
- recitatif — recitative2 .
- reclinate — bending or curved downward.
- recruital — an act of recruiting
- redaction — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- redictate — to dictate again, esp when referring to dictation as reading or speaking aloud in order for written recording
- reichsrat — German History. the upper house of the parliament during the period of the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic.
- reichstag — the lower house of the parliament during the period of the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic.
- replicant — an android that is indistinguishable from a human being
- replicate — Also, replicated. folded; bent back on itself.
- reticella — a form of lace popular from the 15th to the 17th centuries
- reticular — having the form of a net; netlike.
- revictual — to victual or provide with food again
- rhapontic — a type of rhubarb
- rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rhotacism — Historical Linguistics. a change of a speech sound, especially (s), to (r), as in the change from Old Latin lases to Latin lares.
- 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.
- rickstand — a platform on which to put or make a rick or haystack
- rocinante — Rosinante.
- rubricate — to mark or color with red.
- ructation — an eructation or belch
- runcinate — (of a leaf) pinnately incised, with the lobes or teeth curved backward.
- rusticana — objects, such as agricultural implements, garden furniture, etc, relating to the countryside or made in imitation of rustic styles
- rusticate — to go to the country.
- sacrality — sacredness
- sacristan — Also called sacrist [sak-rist, sey-krist] /ˈsæk rɪst, ˈseɪ krɪst/ (Show IPA). an official in charge of the sacred vessels, vestments, etc., of a church or a religious house.
- saluretic — of or relating to a substance that promotes renal excretion of sodium and chloride ions.
- sarcastic — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
- sarcoptic — related to or caused by itch-mites that cause mange in animals
- satirical — of, pertaining to, containing, or characterized by satire: satirical novels.
- satyrical — Classical Mythology. one of a class of woodland deities, attendant on Bacchus, represented as part human, part horse, and sometimes part goat and noted for riotousness and lasciviousness.
- satyricon — a satirical novel, interspersed with verse, written in the 1st century a.d. by Petronius, extant in fragments.
- scarlatti — Alessandro [ah-luh-sahn-droh;; Italian ah-les-sahn-draw] /ˌɑ ləˈsɑn droʊ;; Italian ˌɑ lɛsˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), 1659–1725, Italian composer.
- scenarist — a writer of motion-picture or television scenarios.
- scratchie — a scratchcard
- 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
- sidetrack — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
- sonicator — a device for treatment with ultrasound
- spartanic — (usually lowercase) suggestive of the ancient Spartans; sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere.
- sparticle — a hypothetical elementary particle thought to have been produced in the Big Bang
- spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
- st. clair — Arthur, 1736–1818, American Revolutionary War general, born in Scotland: 1st governor of the Northwest Territory, 1787–1802.
- staircase — a flight of stairs with its framework, banisters, etc., or a series of such flights.