9-letter words containing a, s, c, e, t
- scarpetto — a type of shoe traditionally worn by Alpine climbers
- scatheful — causing harm or injury
- 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.
- sceptical — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- schatchen — shadkhan.
- schematic — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.
- schematik — A NeXT front-end to MIT Scheme for the NeXT by Chris Kane and Max Hailperin <[email protected]>. Schematik provides syntax-knowledgeable text editing, graphics windows and a user-interface to an underlying MIT Scheme process. It comes with MIT Scheme 7.1.3 ready to install on the NeXT and requires NEXTSTEP. Version: 1.1.5.2.
- schvartze — a term used by some Jewish people to refer to a black person.
- sciential — having knowledge.
- sclerotal — a bony area or plate found in the sclerotic (the eyeball covering) of some animals
- scopulate — broom-shaped; brushlike.
- 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.
- sea chest — a fitting in a hull below the water line, for admitting or discharging water.
- sea scout — (often initial capital letters) a member of a scouting program that provides training in boating and other water activities.
- sea stack — a pillarlike mass of rock detached by wave action from a cliff-lined shore and surrounded by water.
- seat back — the part of a chair or seat that you rest your back against
- 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.
- sectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- sectorial — of or relating to a sector.
- securitan — a person believing they are secure
- seed coat — the outer integument of a seed.
- selectman — (in most New England states) one of a board of town officers chosen to manage certain public affairs.
- semantics — Linguistics. the study of meaning. the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form.
- sequacity — following with smooth or logical regularity.
- setaceous — bristlelike; bristle-shaped.
- shechitah — the slaughtering of animals for food by a duly certified person in the manner prescribed by Jewish law.
- sheetcase — a covering made of sheet material, especially one used for a down comforter.
- shitfaced — very drunk.
- shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
- siccative — causing or promoting absorption of moisture; drying.
- 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.
- skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
- sketchpad — sketchbook (def 1).
- sleepcoat — a lightweight, knee-length garment for sleep or lounging, styled like a pajama top and having a sash.
- socialite — a socially prominent person.
- sociative — expressing accompaniment or association
- space out — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.