10-letter words containing a, s, c, n
- scyphozoan — any coelenterate of the class Scyphozoa, comprising the true marine jellyfishes.
- sea anchor — any of various devices, as a drogue, that have great resistance to being pulled through the water and are dropped forward of a vessel at the end of a cable to hold the bow into the wind or sea during a storm.
- sea canary — beluga (def 2).
- sea change — a striking change, as in appearance, often for the better.
- sea urchin — any echinoderm of the class Echinoidea, having a somewhat globular or discoid form, and a shell composed of many calcareous plates covered with projecting spines.
- seannachie — a Gaelic storyteller in the Scottish Highlands or in Ireland
- second man — a person who assists the driver in crewing a locomotive
- secondhand — not directly known or experienced; obtained from others or from books: Most of our knowledge is secondhand.
- see action — to participate in military combat
- selectance — a measure of the drop in response of a radio receiving set or the like to a given frequency differing from the resonant frequency of the device, expressed as the ratio of the amplitude of the response at the resonant frequency to the amplitude of the response at the given frequency.
- seleucidan — Seleucid.
- semantical — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- serviceman — a member of the armed forces of a country.
- sex change — the alteration, by surgery and hormone treatments, of a person's physical sex characteristics to approximate those of the opposite sex: Born male, she now lives as a woman but has no plans for a sex change.
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
- ship canal — a canal navigable by ships.
- showcasing — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
- shrinkpack — flexible plastic used for shrink-wrapping goods
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- side chain — a group of atoms bound to an atom, usually a carbon, that forms part of a larger chain or ring in a molecule
- simoniacal — a person who practices simony.
- siren call — the appeal that something has although it is harmful or dangerous
- skid chain — a chain fitting over the tire of a car, truck, or other vehicle, to increase traction and prevent skidding on roads covered with ice or snow.
- skin patch — an adhesive patch stuck to the skin to slowly and steadily release medicine into the bloodstream
- skyjacking — an act or instance of hijacking an aircraft.
- slackening — an act of becoming looser
- slam dance — a dance performed to punk rock by groups of people who flail and toss themselves about and slam into one another.
- sling-back — Also called sling. a woman's shoe with an open back and a strap or sling encircling the heel of the foot to keep the shoe secure.
- smack down — to humble or reprimand (someone who is overstepping bounds)
- small cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- snaphaunce — an early flintlock mechanism for igniting a charge of gunpowder in a gun.
- snobocracy — a social class of snobs
- snowcapped — topped with snow: the snowcapped Alps.
- socialness — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- sodcasting — the practice of playing music through the speakers of a mobile phone in a public space
- solacement — a comfort or consolation
- solicitant — a solicitor
- sonication — a treatment using ultrasound
- sophoclean — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
- soundscape — the component sounds of an environment.
- soundtrack — the narrow band on one or both sides of a motion-picture film on which sound is recorded.
- space junk — objects such as artificial satellites, material discarded from space stations, etc that remain in space after use
- spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
- spacewoman — a woman astronaut.
- speciation — the formation of new species as a result of geographic, physiological, anatomical, or behavioral factors that prevent previously interbreeding populations from breeding with each other.
- spectating — to participate as a spectator, as at a horse race.
- spencerian — pertaining to or characteristic of a system of penmanship, characterized by clear, rounded letters slanting to the right.
- spinaceous — pertaining to or of the nature of spinach; belonging to the amaranth family of plants.
- splanchnic — of or relating to the viscera or entrails; visceral.