8-letter words containing c, o, n, s, e
- necroses — death of a circumscribed portion of animal or plant tissue.
- necrosis — death of a circumscribed portion of animal or plant tissue.
- noctules — Plural form of noctule.
- nonesuch — a person or thing without equal; paragon.
- nosecone — Alternative spelling of nose cone.
- notecase — billfold.
- nucleons — Plural form of nucleon.
- offences — Plural form of offence.
- onscreen — As seen on a screen (as of television, film, or computer) rather than in real life.
- opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
- oscinine — of or relating to the Oscines
- penstock — a pipe conducting water from a head gate to a waterwheel.
- recensor — someone who produces a recension or recensions
- recision — an act of canceling or voiding; cancellation.
- resorcin — a white, needlelike, water-soluble solid, C 6 H 6 O 2 , a benzene derivative originally obtained from certain resins, now usually synthesized: used chiefly in making dyes, as a reagent, in tanning, in the synthesis of certain resins, and in medicine in treating certain skin conditions; meta-dihydroxybenzene.
- scenario — an outline of the plot of a dramatic work, giving particulars as to the scenes, characters, situations, etc.
- schooner — Nautical. any of various types of sailing vessel having a foremast and mainmast, with or without other masts, and having fore-and-aft sails on all lower masts. See also ketch, topsail schooner, yawl1 (def 2).
- screw-on — attached, connected, or closed by screwing onto another part of a container or receptacle.
- scrounge — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- secodont — (of animals) having teeth with sharp cutting edges
- seconded — next after the first; being the ordinal number for two.
- secondee — a person who is seconded
- seconder — next after the first; being the ordinal number for two.
- secondly — in the second place; second.
- seicento — the 17th century, with reference to the Italian art or literature of that period.
- sermonic — of, relating to, or resembling a sermon.
- silicone — any of a number of polymers containing alternate silicon and oxygen atoms, as (–Si–O–Si–O–) n, whose properties are determined by the organic groups attached to the silicon atoms, and that are fluid, resinous, rubbery, extremely stable in high temperatures, and water-repellent: used as adhesives, lubricants, and hydraulic oils and in electrical insulation, cosmetics, etc.
- snow ice — opaque ice formed from partly melted snow or ice; frozen slush.
- solvency — solvent condition; ability to pay all just debts.
- sonicate — a thing which has been subjected to sound waves
- soricine — of or resembling the shrews.
- sortance — suitableness
- stenlock — a coal fish, Merlangus carbonarius
- stenotic — a narrowing or stricture of a passage or vessel.
- stonecat — a yellowish-brown, freshwater catfish, Noturus flavus, of the Mississippi River valley and Great Lakes, having poisonous pectoral spines.
- sunchoke — Jerusalem artichoke (def 2).
- tonetics — the phonetic study of tone in language.
- unchosen — a past participle of choose.
- unclosed — not closed: an unclosed door.
- unsocket — to remove from a socket