5-letter words containing e, t, c
- oncet — (Southern US, South Midland US, uncommon) Once.
- react — to act in response to an agent or influence: How did the audience react to the speech?
- recit — narrative
- recta — a plural of rectum.
- recti — plural of rectus.
- recto — a right-hand page of an open book or manuscript; the front of a leaf (opposed to verso).
- recut — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
- retch — to make efforts to vomit.
- sceat — a silver Anglo-Saxon coin of the 7th and 8th centuries, sometimes including an amount of gold.
- scent — a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable: the scent of roses.
- scute — a dermal bony plate, as on an armadillo, or a large horny plate, as on a turtle.
- spect — single photon emission computed tomography: a technique for measuring brain function similar to PET.
- stech — to fill or gorge (one's stomach) with food.
- taces — tasset.
- tacet — (on a musical score) a direction indicating that a particular instrument or singer does not take part in a movement or part of a movement
- tache — a buckle; clasp.
- tcode — Intermediate language used by the Spineless Tagless G-machine (an abstract machine based on graph reduction) designed as a target for compilation of non-strict functional languages. "The Spineless tagless G- machine", S. Peyton Jones et al, Fourth Intl Conf Func Prog Langs and Comp Arch pp.184-201, ACM Sept 1989.
- teach — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- techy — techie.
- tecta — a rooflike structure.
- telco — a telecommunications company
- telic — Grammar. expressing end or purpose: a telic conjunction.
- tench — a freshwater food fish, Tinca tinca, of Europe and Asia that can survive short periods out of water.
- tepic — a state in W Mexico. 10,442 sq. mi. (27,045 sq. km). Capital: Tepic.
- terce — tierce (def 3).
- theca — a case or receptacle.
- theic — a person who drinks excessive amounts of tea
- tieck — Ludwig [loot-vikh,, lood-] /ˈlut vɪx,, ˈlud-/ (Show IPA), 1773–1853, German writer.
- trace — either of the two straps, ropes, or chains by which a carriage, wagon, or the like is drawn by a harnessed horse or other draft animal.
- trice — a very short time; an instant: in a trice.
- truce — a suspension of hostilities for a specified period of time by mutual agreement of the warring parties; cease-fire; armistice.
- twice — two times, as in succession: Write twice a week.
- tyche — the ancient Greek goddess of fortune.
- vetch — any of several mostly climbing plants belonging to the genus Vicia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves ending in tendrils and bearing pealike flowers, especially V. sativa (spring vetch) cultivated for forage and soil improvement.
- wecht — (Scotland) weight.