9-letter words containing c, s, e, t, i
- extispicy — (uncountable) Haruspicy: the study and divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice.
- extrinsic — Not part of the essential nature of someone or something; coming or operating from outside.
- facefirst — Violently forward, so as to strike something with one's face.
- facelifts — Plural form of facelift.
- facetious — not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
- factories — A building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine.
- factorise — (mathematics): To create a list of factors.
- faculties — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- fasciated — Showing abnormal fusion of parts or organs, resulting in a flattened, ribbonlike structure.
- fascinate — to attract and hold attentively by a unique power, personal charm, unusual nature, or some other special quality; enthrall: a vivacity that fascinated the audience.
- fatiscent — having cracks or chinks
- festucine — (obsolete) Of a straw colour; greenish-yellow.
- fetchings — Plural form of fetching.
- fetichism — belief in or use of fetishes.
- fetichist — Archaic form of fetishist.
- feticides — Plural form of feticide.
- fideistic — Pertaining to fideism.
- firecrest — a European kinglet, Regulus ignicapillus, having a bright, orange-red patch on the top of the head.
- firestick — A poker used to arrange coals etc in a fire.
- forestick — the front log in a wood fire, as in a fireplace.
- fractiles — Plural form of fractile.
- fruticose — having the form of a shrub; shrublike.
- gearstick — The lever used to change gear in a vehicle.
- geodetics — The scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of the earth, its gravitational field and geodynamic phenomena (polar motion, earth tides, and tectonic motion) in three-dimensional, time-varying space.
- geomatics — The discipline of gathering, storing, processing, and delivering geographic information.
- geostatic — of or relating to pressure exerted by the weight of overlying rock.
- glaciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glaciate.
- hanseatic — of or relating to the Hanseatic League or to any of the towns belonging to it.
- headstick — a piece of wood formerly used in typesetting to create a margin at the top of a page
- heartsick — extremely depressed or unhappy.
- hectorism — the character or actions of a hector
- hemistich — the exact or approximate half of a stich, or poetic verse or line, especially as divided by a caesura or the like.
- hemstitch — to hem along a line from which threads have been drawn out, stitching the cross threads into a series of little groups.
- hepaticas — Plural form of hepatica.
- hermetics — alchemy
- hesitance — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hesitancy — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- heuretics — the use of logic
- heuristic — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- hexastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of six lines.
- hillcrest — The crest of a hill.
- hysterics — Usually, hysterics. a fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping; hysteria.
- ice chest — an insulated, boxlike container that can be filled with ice and used to cool beverages, preserve food, etc.
- ice sheet — a broad, thick sheet of ice covering an extensive area for a long period of time.
- ice storm — a storm of freezing rain and widespread glaze formation.
- ice tongs — a small pair of tongs for serving ice cubes.
- ice-skate — to skate on ice.
- ideaistic — of ideas, especially in their abstract or symbolic character.
- idiolects — Plural form of idiolect.
- ignescent — emitting sparks of fire, as certain stones when struck with steel.