9-letter words containing e, s, c, a, l
- coelostat — an astronomical instrument consisting of a plane mirror mounted parallel to the earth's axis and rotated about this axis once every two days so that light from a celestial body, esp the sun, is reflected onto a second mirror, which reflects the beam into a telescope
- colanders — Plural form of colander.
- cold case — a police inquiry that has been suspended with the crime still unsolved
- coleslaws — Plural form of coleslaw.
- collagens — Plural form of collagen.
- collapsed — Simple past tense and past participle of collapse.
- collapses — Plural form of collapse.
- colleages — Misspelling of colleagues.
- commensal — (of two different species of plant or animal) living in close association, such that one species benefits without harming the other
- compleats — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compleat.
- conclaves — A private meeting.
- conflates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conflate.
- consolate — to console (a person)
- constable — In Britain and some other countries, a constable is a police officer of the lowest rank.
- consulage — a duty paid by merchants for a consul's protection of their goods while abroad
- consulate — A consulate is the place where a consul works.
- copulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of copulate.
- coral sea — the SW arm of the Pacific, between Australia, New Guinea, and Vanuatu
- coseismal — of or designating points at which earthquake waves are felt at the same time
- cosplayer — One who takes part in cosplay.
- coveralls — Coveralls are a single piece of clothing that combines pants and a jacket. You wear coveralls over your clothes in order to protect them while you are working.
- cracknels — crisply fried bits of fat pork
- craftless — without craft or cunning
- crossable — able to be crossed
- crushable — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- cumulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cumulate.
- cutlasses — Plural form of cutlass.
- cyclamens — Plural form of cyclamen.
- deadlocks — Plural form of deadlock.
- decapolis — a league of ten cities, including Damascus, in the northeast of ancient Palestine: established in 63 bc by Pompey and governed by Rome
- decastyle — a portico consisting of ten columns
- decayless — having no tendency to decay
- declassee — (of a woman) having lost social standing or status
- decretals — a compilation of decretals, esp the authoritative compilation (Liber Extra) of Gregory IX (1234) which forms part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- deistical — a person who believes in deism.
- delicates — Underwear or lingerie.
- descaling — Present participle of descale.
- discalced — (chiefly of members of certain religious orders) without shoes; unshod; barefoot.
- dislocate — to put out of place; put out of proper relative position; displace: The glacier dislocated great stones. The earthquake dislocated several buildings.
- displaced — lacking a home, country, etc.
- displacer — a person or thing that displaces.
- displaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of displace.
- downscale — located at, moving toward, or of or for the middle or lower end of a social or economic scale: The discount store caters mainly to downscale customers.
- dudelsack — doodlesack.
- ecclesiae — an assembly, especially the popular assembly of ancient Athens.
- ecclesial — pertaining to a church or its functions, teachings, or organization.
- eclampsia — a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by albuminuria, hypertension, and convulsions.
- ectoblast — the ectoderm.
- ectoplasm — Biology. the outer portion of the cytoplasm of a cell. Compare endoplasm.
- ectosteal — the ossification of cartilage that begins under the perichondrium and proceeds inward.