9-letter words containing c, e, a, s
- sack time — time spent sleeping.
- sackville — Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset, 1536–1608, English statesman and poet.
- sacralise — to make sacred; imbue with sacred character, especially through ritualized devotion: a society that sacralized science.
- sacralize — to make sacred; imbue with sacred character, especially through ritualized devotion: a society that sacralized science.
- sacrament — Ecclesiastical. a visible sign of an inward grace, especially one of the solemn Christian rites considered to have been instituted by Jesus Christ to symbolize or confer grace: the sacraments of the Protestant churches are baptism and the Lord's Supper; the sacraments of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches are baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, matrimony, penance, holy orders, and extreme unction.
- 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.
- sad-faced — having a face characterized by or expressing sorrow.
- sage cock — the male sage grouse.
- sagenitic — relating to sagenite
- saliaunce — an onslaught
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- salt cake — an impure form of sodium sulfate, especially as obtained by the interaction of sulfuric acid and common salt in the synthesis of hydrochloric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of glass, ceramic glazes, soaps, and sodium salts.
- 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.
- sapsucker — any of several American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus that drill holes in maple, apple, hemlock, etc., drinking the sap and eating the insects that gather there.
- saracenic — History/Historical. a member of any of the nomadic tribes on the Syrian borders of the Roman Empire.
- sarbacane — a type of blowpipe
- sarcodine — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- sarcomere — any of the segments of myofibril in striated muscle fibers.
- 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.
- sarcosome — a mitochondrion occurring in a muscle fiber.
- sassenach — a term used by the Gaelic inhabitants of the British Isles to refer to the English inhabitants.
- 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.
- sauceboat — a low, boat-shaped container for serving sauce or gravy, typically having a handle at one end and a long, wide lip at the other end.
- sauciness — impertinent; insolent: a saucy remark; a saucy child.
- save face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- say grace — say prayer before meal
- say uncle — a brother of one's father or mother.
- 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.
- scaldhead — a person's scalp that is diseased with ringworm or another similar affliction
- scale pan — one of the pans of a balance
- scaledown — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
- scaleless — (of a fish or reptile) lacking scales
- 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
- scalework — an ornamentation technique used to depict scales on fish or other creatures
- scaliness — a scaly quality or condition
- scalloped — Scalloped objects are decorated with a series of small curves along the edges.
- scalloper — a person or thing that scallops.
- scalpless — lacking a scalp
- scamander — ancient name of the river Menderes.
- scampered — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- 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.
- scannable — to glance at or over or read hastily: to scan a page.
- scantness — barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate: to do scant justice.
- scapegoat — a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.
- scapeless — lacking a scape
- scapolite — any of a group of minerals of variable composition, essentially silicates of aluminum, calcium, and sodium, occurring as massive aggregates or tetragonal crystals.