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9-letter words containing l, i, s, c

  • subclimax — the development of an ecological community to a stage short of the expected climax because of some factor, as repeated fires in a forest, that arrests the normal succession.
  • subsocial — without a definite social structure.
  • suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
  • sulcalize — to furrow, make a furrow in; predominantly, to make a furrow in (the tongue), make the surface of (the tongue) concave in order to produce certain phonemes
  • sulcation — having long, narrow grooves or channels, as plant stems, or being furrowed or cleft, as hoofs.
  • sulphatic — sulphuric, of or pertaining to a sulphate
  • sulpician — a member of a society of secular priests founded in France in 1642, engaged chiefly in training men to teach in seminaries.
  • supercoil — superhelix.
  • supplicat — a petition (to a university) for a degree
  • surcingle — a belt or girth that passes around the belly of a horse and over the blanket, pack, saddle, etc., and is buckled on the horse's back.
  • surficial — of or relating to a surface, especially the land surface: a surficial geologic deposit.
  • sutcliffe — Herbert. 1894–1978, English cricketer, who played for Yorkshire; scorer of 149 centuries and 1000 runs in a season 24 times
  • sweelinck — Jan Pieters [yahn pee-tuh rs] /yɑn ˈpi tərs/ (Show IPA), or Jan Pieterszoon [yahn pee-tuh r-sohn] /yɑn ˈpi tərˌsoʊn/ (Show IPA), 1562–1621, Dutch organist and composer.
  • sylleptic — the use of a word or expression to perform two syntactic functions, especially to modify two or more words of which at least one does not agree in number, case, or gender, as the use of are in Neither he nor we are willing.
  • symbolics — the branch of theology dealing with the study of the history and meaning of church creeds and confessions.
  • synclinal — sloping downward from opposite directions so as to meet in a common point or line.
  • syncytial — a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm that is not separated into cells.
  • synodical — of a synod; synodal
  • systaltic — rhythmically contracting.
  • tactilist — an artist whose work strives to appeal to the sense of touch
  • tailstock — a movable or sliding support for the dead center of a lathe or grinder.
  • telestich — a poem in which the last letters of successive lines form a word, a phrase, or the consecutive letters of the alphabet.
  • telestics — the ancient art of causing statues, idols, etc, to appear to be inhabited by a deity
  • thalassic — of or relating to seas and oceans.
  • tie clasp — an ornamental metal clasp for securing the two ends of a necktie to a shirt front.
  • timescale — The timescale of an event is the length of time during which it happens or develops.
  • tiny clos — A core part of Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) ported to Scheme and rebuilt using a MOP (Metaobject Protocol). This should be interesting to those who want to use MOPs without using a full Common Lisp or Dylan. The first release works with MIT Scheme 11.74.
  • triclosan — a drug used to treat skin infections
  • tricresol — a mixture of the three isomeric cresols.
  • trifocals — glasses with trifocal lenses
  • trochilus — scotia.
  • umbilicus — Anatomy. the depression in the center of the surface of the abdomen indicating the point of attachment of the umbilical cord to the embryo; navel.
  • uncleship — the position or status of an uncle; the condition of being an uncle
  • unlicense — (legal)   A template for dedicating software to the public domain. It combines a copyright waiver like that of the SQLite project with the no-warranty statement from the MIT/X11 license.
  • unmusical — not musical; deficient in melody, harmony, rhythm, or tone.
  • unsickled — not cut with a sickle
  • upscaling — located at, moving toward, or of or for the upper end of a social or economic scale: The boutique caters to upscale young career people.
  • valencies — valence.
  • vesicular — of or relating to a vesicle or vesicles.
  • viciously — addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
  • viscously — of a glutinous nature or consistency; sticky; thick; adhesive.
  • vocalised — to make vocal; utter; articulate; sing.
  • voiceless — having no voice; mute.
  • volacious — able or fit to fly.
  • volcanics — types of rock
  • volcanism — the phenomena connected with volcanoes and volcanic activity.
  • volcanist — a person who studies volcanoes
  • vulcanise — to treat (rubber) with sulfur and heat, thereby imparting strength, greater elasticity, durability, etc.
  • vulcanism — volcanism.
  • watchlist — a list of persons or things to watch for possible action in the future: a watch list of possible growth stocks.
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