5-letter words containing a, s, c
- lacys — a male given name.
- lancs — Lancashire
- lucas — George, born 1944, U.S. film director.
- maces — a spice ground from the layer between a nutmeg shell and its outer husk, resembling nutmeg in flavor.
- macks — Plural form of mack.
- masc. — Masc. is a written abbreviation of masculine.
- micas — Plural form of mica.
- musca — a small constellation in the S hemisphere lying between the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon
- narcs — a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- nasca — of or relating to a pre-Incan culture of SW Peru, dating from c200 b.c., characterized by polychrome pottery and the employment of irrigation techniques in agriculture.
- occas — occasion
- octas — Plural form of octa.
- orcas — Plural form of orca.
- oscan — one of an ancient people of south-central Italy.
- oscar — 1829–1907, king of Sweden 1872–1907; king of Norway 1872–1905.
- oshac — a gum plant which smells of ammonia
- pasch — the Jewish festival of Passover.
- pasco — a city in S Washington, on the Columbia River.
- pašić — Nicola. 1845–1926, Serbian statesman; prime minister of Serbia (1891–92; 1904–05; 1906–08; 1909–11; 1912–18) and of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (1921–24; 1924–26)
- races — Cape, a cape at the SE extremity of Newfoundland.
- racks — Plural form of rack.
- rspca — Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
- saarc — South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
- sac-1 — (mathematics, tool) An early symbolic mathematics system, written in Fortran by G.E. Collins.
- sacco — Nicola [nee-kaw-lah] /niˈkɔ lɑ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1927, Italian anarchist, in the U.S. after 1908: together with Bartolomeo Vanzetti, found guilty of robbery and murder 1921; executed 1927.
- sachs — Hans [hahns] /hɑns/ (Show IPA), 1494–1576, German Meistersinger: author of stories, songs, poems and dramatic works.
- sacks — a strong light-colored wine formerly imported from Spain and the Canary Islands.
- sacra — a bone resulting from the fusion of two or more vertebrae between the lumbar and the coccygeal regions, in humans being composed usually of five fused vertebrae and forming the posterior wall of the pelvis.
- sadoc — Zadok.
- saice — (in India) a groom; stable attendant.
- salic — of or relating to the Salian Franks.
- sauce — any preparation, usually liquid or semiliquid, eaten as a gravy or as a relish accompanying food.
- sauch — sallow2 .
- saucy — impertinent; insolent: a saucy remark; a saucy child.
- scada — Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
- scads — any carangid fish of the genus Decapterus, inhabiting tropical and subtropical shore waters.
- scaff — food
- scail — a scattering or dispersion
- scald — to burn or affect painfully with or as if with hot liquid or steam.
- scale — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- scall — dandruff.
- scalp — the integument of the upper part of the head, usually including the associated subcutaneous structures.
- scaly — covered with or abounding in scales or scale.
- scamp — an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
- scanf — The C library routine that reads data from the standard input stream stdin into the locations given by each entry in its argument list. The first argument is a format string which controls interpretation of the input and each subsequent argument points to a variable with a type that corresponds to a type specifier in the format-string.
- scant — barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate: to do scant justice.
- scape — Botany. a leafless peduncle rising from the ground.
- scare — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- scarf — a long, broad strip of wool, silk, lace, or other material worn about the neck, shoulders, or head, for ornament or protection against cold, drafts, etc.; muffler.
- scarp — a line of cliffs formed by the faulting or fracturing of the earth's crust; an escarpment.