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10-letter words containing c, e, r, a, i

  • sacralized — to make sacred; imbue with sacred character, especially through ritualized devotion: a society that sacralized science.
  • sacrificed — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
  • sacrificer — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
  • sale price — discounted cost
  • sanctifier — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
  • saprogenic — producing putrefaction or decay, as certain bacteria.
  • sarcodines — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
  • sarcopenia — reduction in muscle tissue as a result of ageing
  • sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
  • sarracenia — any American pitcher plant of the genus Sarracenia, having single nodding flowers and leaves modified as pitchers that trap and digest insects: family Sarraceniaceae
  • saucerlike — resembling a saucer
  • scampering — to run or go hastily or quickly.
  • scarabaeid — belonging or pertaining to the Scarabaeidae, a family of lamellicorn beetles, including the scarabs, dung beetles, June bugs, and cockchafers.
  • scattering — distributed or occurring here and there at irregular intervals; scattered.
  • scaturient — gushing; overflowing.
  • sclerotial — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
  • scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
  • screw axis — a symmetry element of a space group such that a rotation of the lattice about the axis and a translation of the lattice some fraction of the lattice's unit distance brings the lattice back to its original position.
  • screw nail — drive screw.
  • sea urchin — any echinoderm of the class Echinoidea, having a somewhat globular or discoid form, and a shell composed of many calcareous plates covered with projecting spines.
  • secretaire — any writing desk resembling a secretary.
  • secularism — secular spirit or tendency, especially a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship.
  • secularist — secular spirit or tendency, especially a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship.
  • secularity — secular views or beliefs; secularism.
  • secularize — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
  • semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
  • semisacred — partly or somewhat sacred; sacred to a limited degree; having some characteristics of the sacred
  • serviceman — a member of the armed forces of a country.
  • sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
  • side chair — a straight-backed chair without arms.
  • siegecraft — the science or skill of conducting a siege
  • silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
  • simple arc — a curve that does not cross itself and has no points missing; a curve that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the closed interval from 0 to 1.
  • siren call — the appeal that something has although it is harmful or dangerous
  • socializer — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
  • spec ratio — (benchmark)   Results for each individual benchmark of the SPEC benchmark suites, for example CINT92 and CFP92, expressed as the ratio of the wall clock time to execute one single copy of the benchmark, compared to a fixed "SPEC reference time", which was chosen early-on as the execution time on a VAX 11/780. See also SPEC rate.
  • spectatrix — a female spectator
  • spencerian — pertaining to or characteristic of a system of penmanship, characterized by clear, rounded letters slanting to the right.
  • spermaceti — a pearly white, waxy, translucent solid, obtained from the oil in the head of the sperm whale: used chiefly in cosmetics and candles, and as an emollient.
  • squirearch — a member of the squirearchy.
  • sterically — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
  • sternalgic — relating to or having sternalgia
  • strategics — strategy (def 1).
  • subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
  • subcaliber — noting or pertaining to ammunition of smaller caliber than the gun in which it is used.
  • subcalibre — (of a projectile) having a calibre less than that of the firearm from which it is discharged and therefore either fitted with a disc or fired through a tube inserted into the barrel
  • subcarbide — a carbide containing less than the normal proportion of carbon.
  • subcarrier — a carrier wave used to modify or modulate another carrier wave.
  • supercilia — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
  • supragenic — beyond the limits or above the level of genes.
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