9-letter words containing c, n, s, t
- scintilla — a minute particle; spark; trace: not a scintilla of remorse.
- sclerotin — an insoluble protein that serves to stiffen the chitin of the cuticle of arthropods.
- scotching — scutch (defs 2, 4).
- scotchman — Sometimes Offensive. Scotsman.
- screw nut — a nut threaded to receive a screw.
- scripting — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- scutcheon — escutcheon.
- scuttling — to run with quick, hasty steps; scurry.
- secernent — (of a gland or follicle) secreting
- secreting — to place out of sight; hide; conceal: squirrels secreting nuts in a hollow tree trunk.
- secretion — (in a cell or gland) the act or process of separating, elaborating, and releasing a substance that fulfills some function within the organism or undergoes excretion.
- sectarian — of or relating to sectaries or sects.
- sectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- securitan — a person believing they are secure
- seduction — an act or instance of seducing, especially sexually.
- selecting — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- selection — an act or instance of selecting or the state of being selected; choice.
- selectman — (in most New England states) one of a board of town officers chosen to manage certain public affairs.
- selenitic — of or relating to selenite
- semantics — Linguistics. the study of meaning. the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form.
- senescent — growing old; aging.
- sentencer — someone who sentences or passes sentence
- sentences — Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
- sentience — sentient condition or character; capacity for sensation or feeling.
- sentiency — sentient condition or character; capacity for sensation or feeling.
- short con — any simple confidence game involving a relatively small amount of money.
- sick note — proof of illness
- sincerest — free of deceit, hypocrisy, or falseness; earnest: a sincere apology.
- sincerity — freedom from deceit, hypocrisy, or duplicity; probity in intention or in communicating; earnestness.
- sketch in — If you sketch in details about something, you tell them to people.
- sketching — a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
- snatching — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- sociation — an association
- softbench — An IPSE from Hewlett-Packard.
- songcraft — the art of songwriting
- sonicator — a device for treatment with ultrasound
- spartanic — (usually lowercase) suggestive of the ancient Spartans; sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere.
- specint92 — (benchmark) A benchmark result derived from the results of a set of integer benchmarks from SPEC (geometric mean of the 6 SPEC ratios of CINT92) which can be used to estimate a machine's single-tasking performance on integer code. SPECint92 obsoletes SPECint89. See also SPECbase_int92.
- sphincter — a circular band of voluntary or involuntary muscle that encircles an orifice of the body or one of its hollow organs.
- splenetic — of the spleen; splenic.
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- stagnance — not flowing or running, as water, air, etc.
- stagnancy — not flowing or running, as water, air, etc.
- stanchest — staunch2 .
- stanchion — an upright bar, beam, post, or support, as in a window, stall, ship, etc.
- stauncher — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- staunchly — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- stegnotic — a medication that is constipating or astringent
- steinbeck — John (Ernst) [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1962.
- stenchful — malodorous; foul-smelling