9-letter words containing c, r, o, s, e, t
- screw-top — (of a container) having a top that screws on.
- scrutoire — writing desk (def 1).
- 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.
- secretory — pertaining to secretion.
- sectorial — of or relating to a sector.
- sectorize — to split or divide into sectors
- serotypic — of or relating to a serotype
- sheetrock — a trademark name for plasterboard or drywall, composed of gypsum enclosed by heavy sheets of paper and used for constructing interior walls and ceilings
- shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
- siderotic — a disease of the lungs caused by inhaling iron or other metallic particles.
- skyrocket — a rocket firework that ascends into the air and explodes at a height, usually in a brilliant array of sparks of one or more colors.
- soft-core — of, relating to, or containing sexually arousing depictions that are not fully explicit: soft-core pornography. Compare hard-core (def 2).
- softcover — paperback edition of a book
- sort code — branch number of a bank
- spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.
- spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- sporocyte — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- stercoral — stercoraceous
- sticheron — a liturgical hymn sung in the Orthodox Church
- stomacher — a richly ornamented garment covering the stomach and chest, worn by both sexes in the 15th and 16th centuries, and later worn under a bodice by women.
- stonecrop — any plant of the genus Sedum, especially a mosslike herb, S. acre, having small, fleshy leaves and yellow flowers, frequently growing on rocks and walls.
- storecard — A storecard is a plastic card that you use to buy goods on credit from a particular store or group of stores.
- subcortex — Anatomy, Zoology. the outer region of an organ or structure, as the outer portion of the kidney. the cerebral cortex.
- subsector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- succentor — a precentor's deputy.
- susceptor — a piece of metallic film on a package of microwaveable food that helps cook and brown the food by producing and concentrating energy on the food's outer surface.
- sweetcorn — Sweetcorn is a long rounded vegetable covered in small yellow seeds. It is part of the maize plant. The seeds themselves can also be referred to as sweetcorn.
- testcross — a genetic test for heterozygosity in which an organism of dominant phenotype, but unknown genotype, is crossed to an organism recessive for all markers in question.
- the cross — the cross on which Jesus was put to death
- the score — the actual situation; the true facts
- theocrasy — a mixture of religious forms and deities by worshipers.
- toreutics — the art or technique of decorating metal or other material, especially by embossing or chasing.
- transcode — (language) An early system on the Ferut computer.
- tricksome — tricksy (def 1).
- tricresol — a mixture of the three isomeric cresols.
- triecious — of or relating to a species having male, female, and hermaphrodite flowers on different plants.
- vorticose — vortical; whirling.
- worcester — Joseph Emerson, 1784–1865, U.S. lexicographer.
- xenocryst — a rock or crystal engulfed by magma and retained as an inclusion in the resulting igneous rock.