9-letter words containing c, a, i, s
- sacralize — to make sacred; imbue with sacred character, especially through ritualized devotion: a society that sacralized science.
- sacrarial — relating to a sacrarium
- sacrarium — Roman Catholic Church. a piscina.
- sacrifice — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
- sacrilege — the violation or profanation of anything sacred or held sacred.
- sacristan — Also called sacrist [sak-rist, sey-krist] /ˈsæk rɪst, ˈseɪ krɪst/ (Show IPA). an official in charge of the sacred vessels, vestments, etc., of a church or a religious house.
- sagacious — having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd: a sagacious lawyer.
- sagenitic — relating to sagenite
- sailcloth — any of various fabrics, as of cotton, nylon, or Dacron, for boat sails or tents.
- salacious — lustful or lecherous.
- saliaunce — an onslaught
- salic law — a code of laws of the Salian Franks and other Germanic tribes, especially a provision in this code excluding females from the inheritance of land.
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- salicylic — of or derived from salicylic acid.
- salt lick — a place to which animals go to lick naturally occurring salt deposits.
- saluretic — of or relating to a substance that promotes renal excretion of sodium and chloride ions.
- samoyedic — of or relating to the Samoyed people or languages.
- sanctions — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- santonica — the dried flower heads of any of several species of wormwood, belonging to the genus Artemisia, used as a vermifuge.
- saporific — producing or imparting flavor or taste.
- saprozoic — (of animals or plants) feeding on dead organic matter
- saracenic — History/Historical. a member of any of the nomadic tribes on the Syrian borders of the Roman Empire.
- sarcastic — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
- sarcodine — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- sarcoptic — related to or caused by itch-mites that cause mange in animals
- sarcosine — a crystalline compound, C 3 H 7 NO 2 , with a sweet taste, soluble in water, slightly soluble in alcohol: used in the manufacture of toothpaste, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals.
- satirical — of, pertaining to, containing, or characterized by satire: satirical novels.
- satisfice — to choose or adopt the first satisfactory option that one comes across: the tendency of decision-makers to satisfice rather than look for the optimal solution.
- satyrical — Classical Mythology. one of a class of woodland deities, attendant on Bacchus, represented as part human, part horse, and sometimes part goat and noted for riotousness and lasciviousness.
- satyricon — a satirical novel, interspersed with verse, written in the 1st century a.d. by Petronius, extant in fragments.
- sauciness — impertinent; insolent: a saucy remark; a saucy child.
- saucisson — a large and thick sausage
- scabicide — Also, scabicidal. destructive to the organisms causing scabies.
- scabietic — a contagious skin disease occurring especially in sheep and cattle and also in humans, caused by the itch mite, Sarcoptes scabiei, which burrows under the skin. Compare itch (def 10), mange.
- scagliola — plasterwork imitating marble, granite, or the like.
- scalation — an arrangement of scales, as on a fish.
- scaldfish — a small European flatfish, Arnoglossus laterna, covered with large fragile scales: family Bothidae
- scaldship — the office of a scald or an ancient Scandinavian poet or bard
- scalelike — Zoology. one of the thin, flat, horny plates forming the covering of certain animals, as snakes, lizards, and pangolins. one of the hard, bony or dentinal plates, either flat or denticulate, forming the covering of certain other animals, as fishes.
- scaletail — a squirrel in the family Anomaluridae possessing scales on the underside of the tail
- scaliness — a scaly quality or condition
- scamillus — a slight bevel at an arris of a stone, as in the necking of a Greek Doric column.
- scan line — (hardware) A horizontal line of pixels generated by a single horizontal sweep of the beam from a monitor's electron gun. The number of scanlines that make up a frame is the vertical resolution.
- scantling — a timber of relatively slight width and thickness, as a stud or rafter in a house frame.
- scapolite — any of a group of minerals of variable composition, essentially silicates of aluminum, calcium, and sodium, occurring as massive aggregates or tetragonal crystals.
- scaraboid — of, relating to, or resembling a scarabaeid
- scarfskin — the outermost layer of the skin; epidermis.
- scarfwise — in the manner of a scarf
- scarifier — to make scratches or superficial incisions in (the skin, a wound, etc.), as in vaccination.
- scariness — the state or quality of being scary