9-letter words containing l, a, r, c
- sclerosal — Pathology. a hardening or induration of a tissue or part, or an increase of connective tissue or the like at the expense of more active tissue.
- sclerotal — a bony area or plate found in the sclerotic (the eyeball covering) of some animals
- scrabbled — to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands.
- scraggily — lean or thin; scrawny.
- scrambler — a person or thing that scrambles.
- scrapable — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
- scrawling — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- screwable — able to be screwed
- screwball — Slang. an eccentric or whimsically eccentric person; a nut.
- scribable — able to be written or written on
- scrubland — land on which the natural vegetation is chiefly scrub.
- scrutable — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
- scuddaler — a leader of festivities
- sectarial — distinguishing or differentiating a sect
- sectorial — of or relating to a sector.
- secularly — of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.
- securable — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- self-care — care of the self without medical or other professional consultation.
- simulacra — a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
- simulacre — simulacrum.
- slackener — a person who, or something which, slackens
- slavocrat — (in the US before the Civil War) a slaveholder, or an advocate of slavery
- slice bar — a long-handled instrument with a blade at the end, for clearing away or breaking up clinkers, coal, etc., in a furnace.
- sparticle — a hypothetical elementary particle thought to have been produced in the Big Bang
- spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- st. clair — Arthur, 1736–1818, American Revolutionary War general, born in Scotland: 1st governor of the Northwest Territory, 1787–1802.
- stercoral — stercoraceous
- 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.
- subcellar — a cellar below the main cellar.
- subocular — below or under the eye
- subsacral — below the sacrum or bone at the back of the pelvis
- succursal — subsidiary, especially noting a religious establishment that is dependent upon a principal one.
- sucralose — a white, crystalline powder, C 12 H 19 Cl 3 O 8 , produced synthetically from sucrose, about 600 times as sweet as sucrose but having no calories.
- suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
- surf clam — any of several typically large common clams of the family Mactridae, inhabiting the zone of breaking surf in coastal waters.
- surficial — of or relating to a surface, especially the land surface: a surficial geologic deposit.
- teacherly — characteristic of or pertaining to a teacher; pedagogic.
- tectorial — a rooflike structure.
- theriacal — of or relating to a theriac, a mixture once thought to be an antidote to poison such as snake venom or treacle
- tolerance — a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
- torchable — able to be torched or set alight
- toxocaral — of or relating to a toxocara
- trabecula — Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
- traceable — capable of being traced.
- traceless — having or leaving no trace: a traceless crime.
- tracheole — any of the smallest branches of an insect trachea.
- trackable — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- trackball — a computer input device for controlling the pointer on a display screen by rotating a ball set inside a case.
- trackless — without a track, as a snow-covered meadow.
- tractable — easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding: a tractable child; a tractable disposition.