9-letter words containing n, a, o, c
- raconteur — a person who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.
- radionics — a dowsing technique using a pendulum to detect the energy fields that are emitted by all forms of matter
- rancorous — full of or showing rancor.
- recaption — the taking back without violence of one's property or a member of one's family or household unlawfully in the possession or custody of another.
- recaution — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- recoinage — the act, process, or right of making coins.
- reconceal — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
- recontact — the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.
- recountal — an act of recounting.
- redaction — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- resonance — the state or quality of being resonant.
- rhapontic — a type of rhubarb
- rocinante — Rosinante.
- rock band — heavy pop music group
- romanesco — a variety of green cauliflower
- rosecrans — William Starke [stahrk] /stɑrk/ (Show IPA), 1819–98, U.S. general.
- rounceval — a variety of large pea
- roundarch — having rounded arches
- ructation — an eructation or belch
- sanctions — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- santonica — the dried flower heads of any of several species of wormwood, belonging to the genus Artemisia, used as a vermifuge.
- sarcodine — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- sarcosine — a crystalline compound, C 3 H 7 NO 2 , with a sweet taste, soluble in water, slightly soluble in alcohol: used in the manufacture of toothpaste, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals.
- satyricon — a satirical novel, interspersed with verse, written in the 1st century a.d. by Petronius, extant in fragments.
- saucisson — a large and thick sausage
- scalation — an arrangement of scales, as on a fish.
- scaledown — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
- scazontic — relating to or consisting of scazons
- scenarios — an outline of the plot of a dramatic work, giving particulars as to the scenes, characters, situations, etc.
- schiavone — the Italian name for a 17th century basket-hilted sword with a double edge
- schoolman — a person versed in scholastic learning or engaged in scholastic pursuits.
- sciaenoid — belonging or pertaining to the Sciaenidae, a family of carnivorous fishes that produce a loud sound by snapping the muscles attached to their air bladder, comprising the croakers and drums.
- sciomancy — divination with the help of ghosts
- scotchman — Sometimes Offensive. Scotsman.
- secondary — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- sectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- showmance — a romance between two stars that only lasts for the run of the show
- siciliano — a graceful folk dance of Sicily.
- smackdown — a severe rebuke or criticism: his amazing smackdown of the protesters.
- snow crab — an edible spider crab of the North Pacific, Chionoecetes opilio, commercially important as a frozen seafood product.
- snow-clad — covered with snow.
- snowscape — landscape covered with snow.
- sociation — an association
- solonchak — a type of intrazonal soil of arid regions with a greyish surface crust: contains large quantities of soluble salts
- songcraft — the art of songwriting
- sonically — in a sonic manner
- sonicator — a device for treatment with ultrasound
- soundcard — A soundcard is a piece of equipment which can be put into a computer so that the computer can produce music or other sounds.
- sovenance — memory
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities