6-letter words containing e, c, n
- prince — a treatise on statecraft (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli.
- procne — a princess of Athens, who punished her husband for raping her sister Philomela by feeding him the flesh of their son. She was changed at her death into a swallow
- quench — to slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.).
- quince — either of two small trees, Cydonia oblonga or C. sinensis, of the rose family, bearing hard, fragrant, yellowish fruit used chiefly for making jelly or preserves.
- racine — Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1639–99, French dramatist.
- rancel — to search or rummage; ransack
- recane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- recant — to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- recent — of late occurrence, appearance, or origin; lately happening, done, made, etc.: recent events; a recent trip.
- reckan — a chain, hook or bar for hanging a pot over a fire
- reckon — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- recoin — a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- retcon — a subsequent revision of an established story in film, TV, video games, or comics: In an awkward retcon of his origin story, the hero’s parents survived the attack but suffered complete memory loss.
- rhenic — of or containing rhenium.
- richen — to make rich or richer; enrich
- rockne — Knute (Kenneth) [noot] /nut/ (Show IPA), 1888–1931, U.S. football coach, born in Norway.
- rounce — the handle that is turned to move paper and plates on a printing press
- runcie — Robert Alexander Kennedy, 1921–2000, English clergyman: archbishop of Canterbury 1980–91.
- scenic — of or relating to natural scenery.
- scerne — to discern or to perceive something
- scient — an old word meaning scientific
- sclent — to move or lie on a slant.
- sconce — the head or skull.
- screen — a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- scrine — a shrine or a bookcase
- scunge — to borrow
- seance — a meeting in which a spiritualist attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead.
- secant — Geometry. an intersecting line, especially one intersecting a curve at two or more points.
- secern — to discriminate or distinguish in thought.
- second — next after the first; being the ordinal number for two.
- secund — arranged on one side only; unilateral.
- seneca — Oberon-V
- senlac — a hill in SE England: believed by some historians to have been the site of the Battle of Hastings, 1066.
- sicken — disgust
- spence — a male given name, form of Spencer.
- stance — the position or bearing of the body while standing: legs spread in a wide stance; the threatening stance of the bull.
- stench — an offensive smell or odor; stink.
- sucken — a piece of land from which the crops must be ground at a specific mill
- synced — synchronization: The picture and the soundtrack were out of sync.
- tanrec — tenrec.
- techno — a style of disco music characterized by very fast synthesizer rhythms, heavy use of samples, and a lack of melody.
- tenace — a sequence of two high cards of the same suit that lack an intervening card to be in consecutive order, as the ace and queen.
- tencel — a fabric made from wood pulp cellulose, having a silky texture
- tenrec — any of several insectivorous mammals of the family Tenrecidae, of Madagascar, having a long, pointed snout, certain species of which are spiny and tailless.
- thence — from that place: I went first to Paris and thence to Rome.
- trance — a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
- trench — Richard Chenevix [shen-uh-vee] /ˈʃɛn ə vi/ (Show IPA), 1807–86, English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.
- uncage — to set free from or as if from a cage; free from confinement or restraint.
- uncake — to remove compacted matter from (something)
- uncape — to remove the cape from