9-letter words containing a, s, c, e, i
- shechinah — Shekhinah.
- shechitah — the slaughtering of animals for food by a duly certified person in the manner prescribed by Jewish law.
- shitfaced — very drunk.
- sibilance — hissing.
- siccative — causing or promoting absorption of moisture; drying.
- sickleman — a person reaping with a sickle
- sicklemia — the usually asymptomatic hereditary condition that occurs when a person inherits from only one parent the abnormal hemoglobin gene characteristic of sickle cell anemia.
- side card — Poker. the highest card in a hand that is not part of a scoring combination, as not being one of a pair, three of a kind, etc., and that serves to determine by its denomination the higher ranking of two otherwise equal hands.
- sidetrack — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
- silicates — Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.
- simulacre — simulacrum.
- skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
- skiascope — retinoscope.
- skin care — the cleansing, massaging, moisturizing, etc., of the skin, especially the face or hands.
- slice bar — a long-handled instrument with a blade at the end, for clearing away or breaking up clinkers, coal, etc., in a furnace.
- slipcased — having a slipcase
- sluiceway — a channel controlled by a sluice gate.
- smiercase — any soft cheese suitable for spreading or eating with a spoon, especially a sour cottage cheese.
- socialise — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- socialite — a socially prominent person.
- socialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- sociative — expressing accompaniment or association
- spaceship — spacecraft.
- spacesuit — a sealed and pressurized suit designed to allow the wearer to leave a pressurized cabin in outer space or at extremely high altitudes within the atmosphere.
- spaciness — the state of being spacey
- spanaemic — relating to a lack of red corpuscles in blood
- sparticle — a hypothetical elementary particle thought to have been produced in the Big Bang
- special k — an animal anaesthetic, ketamine hydrochloride, sold illegally as a hallucinogenic drug
- specially — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- specialty — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
- spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
- spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- spiculate — having the form of a spicule.
- spikedace — a scaleless, mottled, olive-brown fish, Meda fulgida, of the Gila River system in New Mexico and Arizona, having two dorsal spines.
- spinacene — a type of vaccine
- staircase — a flight of stairs with its framework, banisters, etc., or a series of such flights.
- steadicam — a mechanism for steadying a handheld camera, consisting of a shock-absorbing arm to which the camera is attached and a harness worn by the camera operator
- stemmatic — of or relating to a textual stemma
- stenopaic — (of an optic device) having a narrow opening devised to improve eyesight by limiting obscurations
- stepchair — a set of steps folding into a chair.
- sterculia — any of various tropical trees of the genus Sterculia, of which some species are grown as ornamentals and some are the source of commercially valuable wood.
- stickable — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- strategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
- succinate — a salt or ester of succinic acid.
- sulcalize — to furrow, make a furrow in; predominantly, to make a furrow in (the tongue), make the surface of (the tongue) concave in order to produce certain phonemes
- suscitate — to excite (a feeling)
- syndicate — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
- tacitness — understood without being openly expressed; implied: tacit approval.
- tackiness — not tasteful or fashionable; dowdy.
- tagmemics — a school of linguistics deriving from American structuralism based on the work of Kenneth Lee Pike and using the tagmeme as the basic unit of grammatical analysis.