9-letter words containing c, a, i, s
- 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
- spasmatic — given to spasms
- spasmodic — pertaining to or of the nature of a spasm; characterized by spasms.
- special k — an animal anaesthetic, ketamine hydrochloride, sold illegally as a hallucinogenic drug
- specially — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- specialty — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
- spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
- spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- spiculate — having the form of a spicule.
- spikedace — a scaleless, mottled, olive-brown fish, Meda fulgida, of the Gila River system in New Mexico and Arizona, having two dorsal spines.
- spinacene — a type of vaccine
- squinancy — a prostrate Eurasian plant, Asperula cynanchica, of the madder family, having smooth, weak stems and sparse white or pink flowers, formerly believed to be a cure for quinsy.
- squirarch — a person who believes in government by squires
- st. clair — Arthur, 1736–1818, American Revolutionary War general, born in Scotland: 1st governor of the Northwest Territory, 1787–1802.
- st. lucia — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- stab kick — a rapid kick of the ball from one player to another member of his team
- staircase — a flight of stairs with its framework, banisters, etc., or a series of such flights.
- stalactic — consisting of, containing or relating to stalactites
- stanchion — an upright bar, beam, post, or support, as in a window, stall, ship, etc.
- statistic — a numerical fact or datum, especially one computed from a sample.
- steadicam — a mechanism for steadying a handheld camera, consisting of a shock-absorbing arm to which the camera is attached and a harness worn by the camera operator
- stemmatic — of or relating to a textual stemma
- stenopaic — (of an optic device) having a narrow opening devised to improve eyesight by limiting obscurations
- stepchair — a set of steps folding into a chair.
- 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.
- stickable — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stickball — a form of baseball played in the streets, on playgrounds, etc., in which a rubber ball and a broomstick or the like are used in place of a baseball and bat.
- stigmatic — Also, stigmatical. pertaining to a stigma, mark, spot, or the like.
- stoically — impassive; characterized by a calm, austere fortitude befitting the Stoics: a stoical sufferer.
- stomachic — of or relating to the stomach; gastric.
- strategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
- stratonic — of or relating to an army
- strychnia — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- subaction — an act of subduing
- subapical — located below the apex.
- subarctic — of, pertaining to, similar to, or being the region immediately south of the Arctic Circle; subpolar.
- subatomic — of or relating to a process that occurs within an atom.
- subcasing — a rough casing for a doorway or window.
- subcavity — a cavity within a larger cavity
- subclimax — the development of an ecological community to a stage short of the expected climax because of some factor, as repeated fires in a forest, that arrests the normal succession.
- subic bay — a bay in the South China Sea, near the Bataan Peninsula in W Luzon, in the Philippines: former U.S. naval base.
- subsocial — without a definite social structure.
- succinate — a salt or ester of succinic acid.
- suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- sulcalize — to furrow, make a furrow in; predominantly, to make a furrow in (the tongue), make the surface of (the tongue) concave in order to produce certain phonemes
- sulcation — having long, narrow grooves or channels, as plant stems, or being furrowed or cleft, as hoofs.
- sulphatic — sulphuric, of or pertaining to a sulphate
- sulpician — a member of a society of secular priests founded in France in 1642, engaged chiefly in training men to teach in seminaries.