10-letter words containing c, e, s, a, n
- intactness — not altered, broken, or impaired; remaining uninjured, sound, or whole; untouched; unblemished: The vase remained intact despite rough handling.
- intercaste — Sociology. an endogamous and hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation, economic position, etc., and having mores distinguishing it from other such groups. any rigid system of social distinctions.
- interclass — between classes; involving different classes.
- interfaces — Plural form of interface.
- interlaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interlace.
- interspace — a space between things.
- intimacies — Plural form of intimacy.
- inviscated — Simple past tense and past participle of inviscate.
- isocyanate — a salt or ester of isocyanic acid.
- isocyanide — a compound containing an isocyano group.
- isocyanine — a member of the group of cyanine dyes.
- jackanapes — an impertinent, presumptuous person, especially a young man; whippersnapper.
- jackknifes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jackknife.
- jackknives — Plural form of jackknife.
- jackstones — Plural form of jackstone.
- jouissance — Physical or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy.
- jouysaunce — joy
- jovysaunce — joy
- juncaceous — belonging to the plant family Juncaceae.
- kalanchoes — Plural form of kalanchoe.
- kinematics — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
- knackeries — Plural form of knackery.
- knackiness — the quality or condition of being knacky
- knapsacked — Simple past tense and past participle of knapsack.
- lac insect — a scale insect, Laccifer lacca, of southeast Asia, the female of which secretes lac, a substance used in the preparation of shellac, wax, etc.
- lactescent — becoming or being milky.
- lacustrine — of or relating to a lake.
- lancashire — a county in NW England. 1174 sq. mi. (3040 sq. km).
- lance rest — a support for a couched lance, fixed to the breastplate of a suit of armor.
- lancetfish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- landscaped — Simple past tense and past participle of landscape.
- landscaper — a gardener who does landscape gardening.
- landscapes — Plural form of landscape.
- latescence — the state or quality of being latescent
- launceston — a city on N Tasmania.
- lemniscate — a plane curve generated by the locus of the point at which a variable tangent to a rectangular hyperbola intersects a perpendicular from the center to the tangent. Equation: r 2 = 2 a 2 cosθ.
- licensable — formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- line space — (on a typewriter, typesetter, printer, or the like) the horizontal space provided for a line of typing, typesetting, printing, etc.
- linecaster — the casting of an entire line of type in a slug.
- lunarscape — the landscape of the moon.
- machinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of machinate.
- macmonnies — Frederick William, 1863–1937, U.S. sculptor.
- macpherson — James, 1736–96, Scottish author and translator.
- macro lens — a lens used to bring into focus objects very close to the camera.
- manchester — a city in NW England: connected with the Mersey estuary by a ship canal (35½ mi. [57 km] long).
- manichaeus — Mani
- manicheism — Also, Manichee [man-i-kee] /ˈmæn ɪˌki/ (Show IPA). an adherent of the dualistic religious system of Manes, a combination of Gnostic Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and various other elements, with a basic doctrine of a conflict between light and dark, matter being regarded as dark and evil.
- manuscribe — (archaic) To write by hand.
- marcescent — withering but not falling off, as a part of a plant.
- mascarpone — a very soft Italian cream cheese made from cow's milk.