9-letter words containing c, n, s, t
- pentecost — a Christian festival celebrated on the seventh Sunday after Easter, commemorating the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles; Whitsunday.
- pett scan — PET scan
- phenetics — classification of organisms based on measurable similarities and differences rather than genetic makeup and evolutionary descent.
- phonetics — (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.
- photonics — the study and technology of the use of light for the transmission of information.
- photoscan — to study the distribution of a radioactive isotope or radiopaque dye in (a body organ or part) through the use of x-rays.
- pianistic — relating to, characteristic of, or adaptable for the piano.
- pinchfist — a miser
- posttonic — immediately following a stressed syllable: a posttonic syllable; a posttonic vowel.
- precincts — a district, as of a city, marked out for governmental or administrative purposes, or for police protection.
- prentices — a male given name.
- prescient — having prescience, or knowledge of things or events before they exist or happen; having foresight: The prescient economist was one of the few to see the financial collapse coming.
- pubescent — arriving or arrived at puberty.
- quiescent — being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
- rainstick — a musical instrument consisting of a tube filled with sand or pebbles, which is inverted to produce a sound
- reactants — a person or thing that reacts.
- reconsult — to consult (someone or something) again
- recosting — the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything: the high cost of a good meal.
- redescent — the act, process, or fact of moving from a higher to a lower position. Synonyms: falling, sinking; fall, drop.
- reinspect — to inspect or examine again
- renascent — being reborn; springing again into being or vigor: a renascent interest in Henry James.
- resection — Surveying. a technique of ascertaining the location of a point by taking bearings from the point on two other points of known location.
- rickstand — a platform on which to put or make a rick or haystack
- rubescent — becoming red; blushing.
- rufescent — somewhat reddish; tinged with red; rufous.
- rusticana — objects, such as agricultural implements, garden furniture, etc, relating to the countryside or made in imitation of rustic styles
- 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.
- sacristan — Also called sacrist [sak-rist, sey-krist] /ˈsæk rɪst, ˈseɪ krɪst/ (Show IPA). an official in charge of the sacred vessels, vestments, etc., of a church or a religious house.
- sagenitic — relating to sagenite
- salcantay — a mountain in the Andes in S central Peru: highest peak in the Cordillera Vilcabamba. 20,574 feet (6271 meters).
- sanctions — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sanctuary — a sacred or holy place.
- sand-cast — to produce (a casting) by pouring molten metal into sand molds.
- santonica — the dried flower heads of any of several species of wormwood, belonging to the genus Artemisia, used as a vermifuge.
- satyricon — a satirical novel, interspersed with verse, written in the 1st century a.d. by Petronius, extant in fragments.
- scalation — an arrangement of scales, as on a fish.
- scan path — (circuit design) A technique used to increase the controllability and observability of a logic circuit by incorporating "scan registers" into the circuit. Normally these act like flip-flops but they can be switched into a "test" mode where they all become one long shift register. This allows data to be clocked serially through all the scan registers and out of an output pin at the same time as new data is clocked in from an input pin. Using this technique, the state of certain points in the circuit can be examined and modified at any time by suspending normal operation and switching to test mode. If the scan path is placed adjacent to the circuit's input and output pins then this is known as "boundary scan".
- scantling — a timber of relatively slight width and thickness, as a stud or rafter in a house frame.
- scantness — barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate: to do scant justice.
- scazontic — relating to or consisting of scazons
- scenarist — a writer of motion-picture or television scenarios.
- scenester — a person who tries to fit into a particular cultural scene
- scentless — a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable: the scent of roses.
- schatchen — shadkhan.
- schnittke — Alfred, 1934–1998, Russian composer.
- schnitzel — a cutlet, especially of veal.
- sciential — having knowledge.
- scientism — the style, assumptions, techniques, practices, etc., typifying or regarded as typifying scientists.
- scientist — an expert in science, especially one of the physical or natural sciences.
- scientize — to apply or attempt to apply scientific principles to: to scientize art criticism.