9-letter words containing i, n, t, c, e
- interlock — to fit into each other, as parts of machinery, so that all action is synchronized.
- interrace — interracial
- intersect — to cut or divide by passing through or across: The highway intersects the town.
- intestacy — the state or fact of being intestate at death.
- intricate — having many interrelated parts or facets; entangled or involved: an intricate maze.
- introduce — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
- introject — (psychology) To unconsciously incorporate into one's psyche.
- intumesce — to swell up, as with heat; become tumid.
- invacuate — To confine (people) to a closed area in an emergency situation.
- invection — (obsolete) An inveighing against; invective.
- invective — vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach.
- inviscate — To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter.
- invocated — invoke.
- isolectin — Any of a number of closely related lectins that are difficult to separate, and act together.
- isooctane — the octane C 8 H 18 , used as one of the standards in establishing the octane number of a fuel.
- itchiness — having or causing an itching sensation.
- jacketing — Present participle of jacket.
- ketchikan — a seaport in SE Alaska: transportation and communications center.
- ketogenic — the production of ketone bodies in the body, as in diabetes mellitus or low-carbohydrate weight-loss diets.
- kinematic — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
- kitchener — Horatio Herbert (1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome) 1850–1916, English field marshal and statesman.
- kvetching — Present participle of kvetch.
- lace into — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- lacertian — of or relating to lizards, or like a lizard
- lacertine — belonging or relating to a lacertid
- laciniate — cut into narrow, irregular lobes; slashed; jagged.
- lancinate — to stab or pierce.
- larcenist — a person who commits larceny.
- latencies — Plural form of latency.
- lecturing — Present participle of lecture.
- lenticels — Plural form of lenticel.
- lenticule — one of many tiny cylindrical or spherical lens segments embossed on the surface of a film used in stereoscopic and color photography.
- lichenist — a person who studies lichenology
- licitness — The property of being licit, legalness, appropriateness.
- lunchtime — a period set aside for eating lunch or the period of an hour or so, beginning roughly at noon, during which lunch is commonly eaten.
- machinate — Engage in plots and intrigues; scheme.
- magnetics — the science of magnetism.
- mancipate — (obsolete) To enslave.
- manticore — a legendary monster with a man's head, horns, a lion's body, and the tail of a dragon or, sometimes, a scorpion.
- mechanist — a person who believes in the theory of mechanism.
- megatonic — one million tons.
- melanitic — containing, or relating to, melanite
- melanotic — of or affected with melanosis.
- mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
- mendicant — begging; practicing begging; living on alms.
- mendicate — (ambitransitive) To beg.
- mendicity — mendicancy.
- meniscate — resembling a meniscus
- menticide — the systematic effort to undermine and destroy a person's values and beliefs, as by the use of prolonged interrogation, drugs, torture, etc., and to induce radically different ideas.
- metonymic — Of, or relating to, a word or phrase that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object.