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9-letter words containing a, t, r, c

  • schvartze — a term used by some Jewish people to refer to a black person.
  • sclerotal — a bony area or plate found in the sclerotic (the eyeball covering) of some animals
  • scout car — a fast, lightly-armored military vehicle equipped with guns and used chiefly for reconnaissance.
  • 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.
  • scrutator — a person who investigates.
  • 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.
  • sectorial — of or relating to a sector.
  • securitan — a person believing they are secure
  • sharp-cut — cut so as to have a sharp edge: a tool with a sharp-cut blade.
  • shopcraft — any of various skilled trades involving maintenance or repair work, as metalworking or boilermaking, especially in the railroad industry.
  • shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
  • sidetrack — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
  • slavocrat — (in the US before the Civil War) a slaveholder, or an advocate of slavery
  • songcraft — the art of songwriting
  • sonicator — a device for treatment with ultrasound
  • spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.
  • spartacus — died 71 b.c, Thracian slave, gladiator, and insurrectionist.
  • 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
  • spec rate — (benchmark)   Results of the throughput measurement using SPEC benchmark suites CINT92 and CFP92. With the throughput measurement method, several copies of a given benchmark are executed. The method is particularly suitable for multiprocessor systems. The results, called SPEC rate, express how many jobs of a particular type (characterised by the individual benchmark) can be executed in a given time (The SPEC reference time happens to be a week, the execution times are normalized with respect to a VAX 11/780). The SPEC rates therefore characterise the capacity of a system for compute-intensive jobs of similar characteristics. See also SPEC ratio.
  • spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
  • spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
  • sport car — a small, high-powered automobile with long, low lines, usually seating two persons.
  • sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
  • spot card — spot (def 10b).
  • st. clair — Arthur, 1736–1818, American Revolutionary War general, born in Scotland: 1st governor of the Northwest Territory, 1787–1802.
  • stackroom — an area in a library where books are not on open shelves
  • staircase — a flight of stairs with its framework, banisters, etc., or a series of such flights.
  • star carr — an archaeological site in Yorkshire, England, that was the lakeside camp of a Neolithic hunting, fishing, and gathering culture, 9000–7000 b.c.
  • stauncher — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
  • stepchair — a set of steps folding into a chair.
  • stercoral — stercoraceous
  • 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.
  • stock car — a standard model of automobile changed in various ways for racing purposes.
  • stockyard — an enclosure with pens, sheds, etc., connected with a slaughterhouse, railroad, market, etc., for the temporary housing of cattle, sheep, swine, or horses.
  • stomacher — a richly ornamented garment covering the stomach and chest, worn by both sexes in the 15th and 16th centuries, and later worn under a bodice by women.
  • storecard — A storecard is a plastic card that you use to buy goods on credit from a particular store or group of stores.
  • story arc — a continuing storyline in a television series that gradually unfolds over several episodes
  • strategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
  • stratonic — of or relating to an army
  • streetcar — a public vehicle running regularly along certain streets, usually on rails, as a trolley car or trolley bus.
  • stroupach — a cup of tea
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