10-letter words containing g, n, c
- rhizogenic — producing roots, as certain cells.
- ridiculing — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
- ring cycle — Ring of the Nibelung, The.
- ring dance — round dance.
- ring-fence — assign to sth
- ripcording — (audio) (From "ripping" and "recording") Encoding streaming digital audio from the Internet to an MP3 file or similar. Ripcording is commononly used to copy commercial music from a free stream instead of paying to download.
- rocket gun — any weapon that uses a rocket as a projectile, as a rocket launcher or bazooka.
- rockingham — Second Marquis of, Charles Watson-Wentworth.
- rollicking — carefree and joyous: They had a rollicking good time.
- rollocking — a very severe telling-off; dressing-down
- sac fungus — ascomycete.
- saprogenic — producing putrefaction or decay, as certain bacteria.
- scalloping — any of the bivalve mollusks of the genus Argopecten (Pecten) and related genera that swim by rapidly clapping the fluted shell valves together.
- scampering — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- scandaling — a disgraceful or discreditable action, circumstance, etc.
- scanderbeg — (George Castriota) 1403?–68, Albanian chief and revolutionary leader.
- scantlings — a timber of relatively slight width and thickness, as a stud or rafter in a house frame.
- scarf-ring — a ring which holds a scarf in place
- scarifying — critical
- scattergun — A scattergun is a gun that fires a lot of small metal balls at the same time.
- scattering — distributed or occurring here and there at irregular intervals; scattered.
- scavengers — an animal or other organism that feeds on dead organic matter.
- scavenging — to take or gather (something usable) from discarded material.
- scheduling — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
- schizogony — (in the asexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) the multiple fission of a trophozoite or schizont into merozoites.
- schoenberg — Arnold (ˈarnɔlt). 1874–1951, Austrian composer and musical theorist, in the US after 1933. The harmonic idiom of such early works as the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899) gave way to his development of atonality, as in the song cycle Pierrot Lunaire (1912), and later of the twelve-tone technique. He wrote many choral, orchestral, and chamber works and the unfinished opera Moses and Aaron
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- schooligan — a person of school age who engages in acts of public disorder
- schtupping — to have sexual intercourse with.
- scintigram — a paper printout or photographic record indicating the intensity and distribution of radioactivity in tissues after administration of a radioactive tracer.
- scoffingly — to speak derisively; mock; jeer (often followed by at): If you can't do any better, don't scoff. Their efforts toward a peaceful settlement are not to be scoffed at.
- scowlingly — in a scowling manner
- scrabbling — to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands.
- scrambling — motocross, off-road biking
- scratching — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- screeching — causing or uttering screeches: screeching bats.
- screedings — screeds or floor coverings
- screenager — a teenager who is fully conversant with and skilled in the use of computers and other electronic devices
- screenings — the act or work of a person who screens, as in ascertaining the character and competence of applicants, employees, etc.
- scribbling — to tear apart (wool fibers) in the first stages of carding.
- scrivening — writing
- scroungers — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- sea change — a striking change, as in appearance, often for the better.
- sectioning — a part that is cut off or separated.
- seducingly — in a seducing manner
- seger cone — a pyrometric cone composed of clay and salt.
- sequencing — the following of one thing after another; succession.
- sex change — the alteration, by surgery and hormone treatments, of a person's physical sex characteristics to approximate those of the opposite sex: Born male, she now lives as a woman but has no plans for a sex change.
- shih ching — Book of Odes.
- shockingly — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.