9-letter words containing c, n, s
- physician — a person who is legally qualified to practice medicine; doctor of medicine.
- pianistic — relating to, characteristic of, or adaptable for the piano.
- pickiness — extremely fussy or finicky, usually over trifles.
- pinaceous — belonging to the plant family Pinaceae.
- pinchfist — a miser
- pleasance — a place laid out as a pleasure garden or promenade.
- pleasence — Donald. 1919–95, British actor. His films include Dr Crippen (1962) and Cul de Sac (1966)
- poimenics — pastoral theology.
- polynices — a son of Oedipus and Jocasta and brother of Eteocles and Antigone on whose behalf the Seven against Thebes were organized.
- pond scum — any free-floating freshwater alga that forms a green scum on water.
- posttonic — immediately following a stressed syllable: a posttonic syllable; a posttonic vowel.
- precensor — to censor (a film, play, book, etc) before its publication
- prechosen — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
- precincts — a district, as of a city, marked out for governmental or administrative purposes, or for police protection.
- precisian — a person who adheres punctiliously to the observance of rules or forms, especially in matters of religion.
- precising — a concise summary.
- precision — the state or quality of being precise.
- 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.
- prescreen — to screen in advance; select before a more detailed selecting process.
- presences — the state or fact of being present, as with others or in a place.
- priciness — the state of being pricey
- proconsul — an African subgenus of Dryopithecus that lived 17–20 million years ago and is possibly ancestral to modern hominoids.
- pubescent — arriving or arrived at puberty.
- puissance — power, might, or force.
- punchless — having no punch
- pursuance — the following or carrying out of some plan, course, injunction, or the like.
- pycnosome — a body type characterized by stockiness
- quenchers — Plural form of quencher.
- quickness — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- quicksand — a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
- quidnuncs — Plural form of quidnunc.
- quiescent — being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
- quiesence — Misspelling of quiescence.
- rabbinics — the Hebrew language as used by rabbis in post-Biblical times.
- radionics — a dowsing technique using a pendulum to detect the energy fields that are emitted by all forms of matter
- rainstick — a musical instrument consisting of a tube filled with sand or pebbles, which is inverted to produce a sound
- ranchless — having no ranch or ranches
- rancorous — full of or showing rancor.
- ransacker — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- reactants — a person or thing that reacts.
- recension — an editorial revision of a literary work, especially on the basis of critical examination of the text and the sources used.
- recessing — temporary withdrawal or cessation from the usual work or activity.
- recession — a return of ownership to a former possessor.
- reclusion — the condition or life of a recluse.
- recognise — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- reconsign — to hand over or deliver formally or officially; commit (often followed by to).
- reconsole — to console (someone) again
- 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.