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9-letter words containing e, c, t, a, s, i

  • sagenitic — relating to sagenite
  • salicetum — a plantation of willows
  • saluretic — of or relating to a substance that promotes renal excretion of sodium and chloride ions.
  • satisfice — to choose or adopt the first satisfactory option that one comes across: the tendency of decision-makers to satisfice rather than look for the optimal solution.
  • scabietic — a contagious skin disease occurring especially in sheep and cattle and also in humans, caused by the itch mite, Sarcoptes scabiei, which burrows under the skin. Compare itch (def 10), mange.
  • scaletail — a squirrel in the family Anomaluridae possessing scales on the underside of the tail
  • scapolite — any of a group of minerals of variable composition, essentially silicates of aluminum, calcium, and sodium, occurring as massive aggregates or tetragonal crystals.
  • scenarist — a writer of motion-picture or television scenarios.
  • sceptical — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
  • schematic — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.
  • schematik — A NeXT front-end to MIT Scheme for the NeXT by Chris Kane and Max Hailperin <[email protected]>. Schematik provides syntax-knowledgeable text editing, graphics windows and a user-interface to an underlying MIT Scheme process. It comes with MIT Scheme 7.1.3 ready to install on the NeXT and requires NEXTSTEP. Version: 1.1.5.2.
  • sciential — having knowledge.
  • scratchie — a scratchcard
  • sectarial — distinguishing or differentiating a sect
  • sectarian — of or relating to sectaries or sects.
  • sectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
  • sectorial — of or relating to a sector.
  • securitan — a person believing they are secure
  • semantics — Linguistics. the study of meaning. the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form.
  • sequacity — following with smooth or logical regularity.
  • shechitah — the slaughtering of animals for food by a duly certified person in the manner prescribed by Jewish law.
  • shitfaced — very drunk.
  • siccative — causing or promoting absorption of moisture; drying.
  • sidetrack — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
  • silicates — Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.
  • skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
  • socialite — a socially prominent person.
  • sociative — expressing accompaniment or association
  • 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
  • specialty — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
  • spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
  • spiculate — having the form of a spicule.
  • staircase — a flight of stairs with its framework, banisters, etc., or a series of such flights.
  • 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
  • stepchair — a set of steps folding into a chair.
  • 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.
  • strategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
  • succinate — a salt or ester of succinic acid.
  • suscitate — to excite (a feeling)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • teachings — the act or profession of a person who teaches.
  • tenacious — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
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