9-letter words containing n, a, s, l, c
- scrubland — land on which the natural vegetation is chiefly scrub.
- sectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- selachian — belonging to the Selachii, a group of fishes comprising the sharks, skates, and rays.
- selectman — (in most New England states) one of a board of town officers chosen to manage certain public affairs.
- semblance — outward aspect or appearance.
- semuncial — of or pertaining to a semuncia or to half an ounce
- seneschal — an officer having full charge of domestic arrangements, ceremonies, the administration of justice, etc., in the household of a medieval prince or dignitary; steward.
- sibilance — hissing.
- siciliana — a graceful folk dance of Sicily.
- siciliano — a graceful folk dance of Sicily.
- sickleman — a person reaping with a sickle
- slackener — a person who, or something which, slackens
- slackness — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- slamdance — to hurl oneself repeatedly into or through a crowd at a rock concert
- slingback — Also called sling. a woman's shoe with an open back and a strap or sling encircling the heel of the foot to keep the shoe secure.
- snail cam — a cam with spiral cross section used for progressive lifting of a lever as the cam revolves
- snow-clad — covered with snow.
- solonchak — a type of intrazonal soil of arid regions with a greyish surface crust: contains large quantities of soluble salts
- sonically — in a sonic manner
- spleuchan — a small pouch, especially for carrying tobacco or money.
- staunchly — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- sulcation — having long, narrow grooves or channels, as plant stems, or being furrowed or cleft, as hoofs.
- sulpician — a member of a society of secular priests founded in France in 1642, engaged chiefly in training men to teach in seminaries.
- 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.
- syndactyl — having certain digits joined together.
- synodical — of a synod; synodal
- triclosan — a drug used to treat skin infections
- unclassed — a number of persons or things regarded as forming a group by reason of common attributes, characteristics, qualities, or traits; kind; sort: a class of objects used in daily living.
- uncle sam — a personification of the government or people of the U.S.: represented as a tall, lean man with white chin whiskers, wearing a blue tailcoat, red-and-white-striped trousers, and a top hat with a band of stars.
- unmusical — not musical; deficient in melody, harmony, rhythm, or tone.
- unsecular — not secular
- unshackle — to free from shackles; unfetter.
- unsolaced — not comforted
- 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.
- vocalness — of, relating to, or uttered with the voice: the vocal mechanism; vocal criticism.
- volcanics — types of rock
- volcanism — the phenomena connected with volcanoes and volcanic activity.
- volcanist — a person who studies volcanoes
- volcanoes — a vent in the earth's crust through which lava, steam, ashes, etc., are expelled, either continuously or at irregular intervals.
- vulcanise — to treat (rubber) with sulfur and heat, thereby imparting strength, greater elasticity, durability, etc.
- vulcanism — volcanism.
- wenceslas — 1361–1419, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1378–1400; as Wenceslaus IV, king of Bohemia 1378–1419.
- windscale — a numerical scale, as the Beaufort scale, for designating relative wind intensities.