7-letter words containing e, c, s, t
- sceptre — to give a scepter to; invest with authority.
- scheldt — a river in W Europe, flowing from N France through W Belgium and SW Netherlands into the North Sea. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- scooter — a child's vehicle that typically has two wheels with a low footboard between them, is steered by a handlebar, and is propelled by pushing one foot against the ground while resting the other on the footboard.
- scopate — pollen brush.
- scottie — Scottish terrier.
- scouted — a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- scouter — a person who scouts.
- scutage — (in the feudal system) a payment exacted by a lord in lieu of military service due to him by the holder of a fee.
- scutate — Botany. formed like a round buckler.
- scutter — scurry.
- scuttle — Nautical. a small hatch or port in the deck, side, or bottom of a vessel. a cover for this.
- scytale — a tool used to transmit secret messages by way of wrapping a strip of leather around a cylinder and writing on it. The leather is then unwound and must be wrapped around a cylinder of the same size to read the message. Used by the Ancient Greeks, particularly the Spartans
- scyther — a scythe user
- secreta — secretions of cells, tissues or organs
- secrete — a steel skullcap of the 17th century, worn under a soft hat.
- sectary — a member of a particular sect, especially an adherent of a religious body regarded as heretical or schismatic.
- sectile — capable of being cut smoothly with a knife.
- section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- selecta — a disc jockey
- sematic — serving as a sign or warning of danger, as the conspicuous colors or markings of certain poisonous animals.
- semitic — a subfamily of Afroasiatic languages that includes Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Hebrew, and Phoenician.
- setback — Surveying. the interval by which a chain or tape exceeds the length being measured.
- sex act — sexual intercourse; copulation.
- shacket — a yellowjacket or hornet.
- she-cat — a female cat
- shochet — shohet.
- sickert — Walter Richard, 1860–1942, English painter.
- skeptic — a person who questions the validity or authenticity of something purporting to be factual.
- sketchy — like a sketch; giving only outlines or essentials. Synonyms: cursory, rough, meager, crude.
- smectic — noting a mesomorphic state in which the arrangement of the molecules is in layers or planes.
- smicket — a woman's under-garment or smock
- snicket — a passageway between walls or fences
- sociate — an associate or partner
- society — an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.
- specist — discrimination in favor of one species, usually the human species, over another, especially in the exploitation or mistreatment of animals by humans.
- specter — a visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition.
- spector — Phil. born 1940, US record producer and songwriter, noted for the densely orchestrated "Wall of Sound" in his work with groups such as the Ronettes and the Crystals; convicted in 2009 for the second-degree murder (2003) of actress Lana Clarkson
- spectra — a plural of spectrum.
- spectre — a visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition.
- spicate — having spikes, as a plant.
- stacked — (of a woman) having a voluptuous figure.
- stacker — a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.
- stacket — a palisade, a strong defensive fence of wooden posts
- statice — any of various plants belonging to the genus Limonium, of the leadwort family, having clusters of variously colored flowers that retain their color when dried.
- stearic — of or relating to suet or fat.
- stencil — a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
- sthenic — sturdy; heavily and strongly built.
- stiches — a verse or line of poetry.
- sticker — a person or thing that sticks.
- stickle — to argue or haggle insistently, especially on trivial matters.