7-letter words containing n, c, s
- senecan — a member of the largest tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy of North American Indians, formerly inhabiting western New York and being conspicuous in the wars south and west of Lake Erie.
- senecio — any plant of the genus Senecio, including groundsels, ragworts, and cineraria: family Asteraceae (composites)
- sericin — a gelatinous organic compound that holds the two strands of natural silk together.
- sericon — a solution used in alchemy of unknown composition, perhaps a red tincture, often equated with minium, or red lead
- shitcan — to dismiss from a job or position.
- siccing — sic1 .
- sichuan — a province in S central China. 219,691 sq. mi. (569,000 sq. km). Capital: Chengdu.
- sicking — sic1 .
- silence — absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
- silicon — a nonmetallic element, having amorphous and crystalline forms, occurring in a combined state in minerals and rocks and constituting more than one fourth of the earth's crust: used in steelmaking, alloys, etc. Symbol: Si; atomic weight: 28.086; atomic number: 14; specific gravity: 2.4 at 20°C.
- sincere — free of deceit, hypocrisy, or falseness; earnest: a sincere apology.
- sinical — relating to a sine
- sinitic — a branch of Sino-Tibetan consisting of the various local languages and dialects whose speakers share literary Chinese as their standard language.
- sirenic — of or characteristic of a siren; melodious, tempting, or alluring.
- slacken — If something slackens or if you slacken it, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
- slicken — to make smooth
- slocken — to slake
- snacker — a person who snacks or eats between main meals
- snatchy — consisting of, occurring in, or characterized by snatches; spasmodic; irregular.
- snicker — to laugh in a half-suppressed, indecorous or disrespectful manner.
- snicket — a passageway between walls or fences
- snitchy — cross; ill-tempered.
- sno-cat — a type of snowmobile
- snowcap — a layer of snow forming a cap on or covering the top of something, as a mountain peak or ridge.
- snowcat — snowmobile.
- socinus — Faustus [faw-stuh s] /ˈfɔ stəs/ (Show IPA), (Fausto Sozzini) 1539–1604, and his uncle, Laelius [lee-lee-uh s] /ˈli li əs/ (Show IPA) (Lelio Sozzini), 1525–62, Italian Protestant theologians and reformers.
- sock in — to strike or hit hard.
- sonance — the condition or quality of being sonant.
- sonancy — the characteristic of being sonant
- soupcon — a slight trace, as of a particular taste or flavor.
- spacing — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- spancel — a noosed rope with which to hobble an animal, especially a horse or cow.
- specing — Usually, specs. specification (def 2).
- spencer — Charles, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, 1674–1722, British statesman: prime minister 1718–21.
- sphenic — being in the shape of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- spinach — a plant, Spinacia oleracea, cultivated for its edible, crinkly or flat leaves.
- splenic — of, pertaining to, connected with, or affecting the spleen: splenic nerves.
- squinch — a small arch, corbeling, or the like, built across the interior angle between two walls, as in a square tower for supporting the side of a superimposed octagonal spire.
- stannic — of or containing tin, especially in the tetravalent state.
- staunch — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- stencil — a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
- sthenic — sturdy; heavily and strongly built.
- subclan — a clan within a larger clan
- suck in — to draw into the mouth by producing a partial vacuum by action of the lips and tongue: to suck lemonade through a straw.
- sucking — not weaned.
- suction — the act, process, or condition of sucking.
- sudanic — (especially in former systems of classification) of or relating to a residual category of African languages including most of the non-Bantu and non-Hamitic languages of northern and central Africa: most now reclassified as part of the Niger-Congo subfamily.
- sunback — (of a garment) cut low to expose the back for sunbathing or coolness.
- sundeck — terrace open to sunshine
- sunsick — suffering from mild heat exhaustion.