9-letter words containing e, a, s, t, c
- spaceshot — a launch of a space vehicle beyond the earth's atmosphere.
- spacesuit — a sealed and pressurized suit designed to allow the wearer to leave a pressurized cabin in outer space or at extremely high altitudes within the atmosphere.
- sparticle — a hypothetical elementary particle thought to have been produced in the Big Bang
- spec rate — (benchmark) Results of the throughput measurement using SPEC benchmark suites CINT92 and CFP92. With the throughput measurement method, several copies of a given benchmark are executed. The method is particularly suitable for multiprocessor systems. The results, called SPEC rate, express how many jobs of a particular type (characterised by the individual benchmark) can be executed in a given time (The SPEC reference time happens to be a week, the execution times are normalized with respect to a VAX 11/780). The SPEC rates therefore characterise the capacity of a system for compute-intensive jobs of similar characteristics. See also SPEC ratio.
- specialty — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
- spectacle — anything presented to the sight or view, especially something of a striking or impressive kind: The stars make a fine spectacle tonight.
- spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- speculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
- spiculate — having the form of a spicule.
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- stackable — capable of being stacked, especially easily: stackable chairs.
- stackless — without or not using a stack
- stagnance — not flowing or running, as water, air, etc.
- staircase — a flight of stairs with its framework, banisters, etc., or a series of such flights.
- stanchest — staunch2 .
- stauncher — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- steadicam — a mechanism for steadying a handheld camera, consisting of a shock-absorbing arm to which the camera is attached and a harness worn by the camera operator
- stemmatic — of or relating to a textual stemma
- stenopaic — (of an optic device) having a narrow opening devised to improve eyesight by limiting obscurations
- step back — retreat, move backwards
- stepchair — a set of steps folding into a chair.
- stepdance — a dance in which the steps are the most important characteristic, specifically a solo dance with intricate, vigorous steps, often performed with the hands kept in the pockets.
- stercoral — stercoraceous
- sterculia — any of various tropical trees of the genus Sterculia, of which some species are grown as ornamentals and some are the source of commercially valuable wood.
- stickable — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stocktake — to count and check the goods on hand in a shop or business
- 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.
- stonechat — any of several small Old World birds, especially of the genus Saxicola, as S. torquata.
- stoneface — living stones.
- storecard — A storecard is a plastic card that you use to buy goods on credit from a particular store or group of stores.
- strategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
- streetcar — a public vehicle running regularly along certain streets, usually on rails, as a trolley car or trolley bus.
- subjacent — situated or occurring underneath or below; underlying.
- suboctave — an octave below another octave
- substance — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- succinate — a salt or ester of succinic acid.
- suffocate — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- supercrat — a high-ranking bureaucrat, especially one of cabinet rank.
- suscitate — to excite (a feeling)
- sweptback — (of the leading edge of an airfoil) forming a markedly obtuse angle with the fuselage.
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- syndicate — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
- tabescent — wasting away; becoming emaciated or consumed.
- tacitness — understood without being openly expressed; implied: tacit approval.
- tackiness — not tasteful or fashionable; dowdy.
- tagmemics — a school of linguistics deriving from American structuralism based on the work of Kenneth Lee Pike and using the tagmeme as the basic unit of grammatical analysis.
- taoiseach — The prime minister of the Republic of Ireland is called the Taoiseach.
- taxaceous — belonging to the Taxaceae, the yew family of plants.
- tea chest — A tea chest is a large wooden box in which tea is packed when it is exported. People also use tea chests for putting things in when they move from one house to another.