10-letter words containing c, e, s, n
- jouissance — Physical or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy.
- jouysaunce — joy
- jovysaunce — joy
- juncaceous — belonging to the plant family Juncaceae.
- kalanchoes — Plural form of kalanchoe.
- kenoticist — someone who believes in or supports the idea of kenosis
- kenspeckle — conspicuous; easily seen or recognized.
- keypunches — Plural form of keypunch.
- kinematics — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
- kinescopes — Plural form of kinescope.
- kineticism — the quality or state of being kinetic.
- kineticist — someone who studies kinetics
- kitschness — the quality of being kitsch
- 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.
- licensures — the granting of licenses, especially to engage in professional practice.
- licentious — sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd.
- lich stone — a large stone on which to rest a coffin momentarily at the entrance to a cemetery.
- line score — a brief listing of the final score and major statistical totals of a game, esp. a baseball game
- 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.
- liquescent — becoming liquid; melting.
- long since — for a long time now
- lose count — to fail to keep an accurate record of items, events, etc
- loucheness — The quality of being louche, shifty or disreputable.
- love scene — a play or film scene in which characters make love
- luftmensch — a person unconcerned with the practicalities of earning a living
- luminesced — Simple past tense and past participle of luminesce.
- luminesces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of luminesce.
- lunarscape — the landscape of the moon.
- lunchboxes — Plural form of lunchbox.
- 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).