9-letter words containing n, e, c, s, a
- ransacker — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- reactants — a person or thing that reacts.
- recusancy — the state of being recusant.
- renascent — being reborn; springing again into being or vigor: a renascent interest in Henry James.
- resonance — the state or quality of being resonant.
- romanesco — a variety of green cauliflower
- rosecrans — William Starke [stahrk] /stɑrk/ (Show IPA), 1819–98, U.S. general.
- sacrament — Ecclesiastical. a visible sign of an inward grace, especially one of the solemn Christian rites considered to have been instituted by Jesus Christ to symbolize or confer grace: the sacraments of the Protestant churches are baptism and the Lord's Supper; the sacraments of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches are baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, matrimony, penance, holy orders, and extreme unction.
- sagenitic — relating to sagenite
- saliaunce — an onslaught
- saracenic — History/Historical. a member of any of the nomadic tribes on the Syrian borders of the Roman Empire.
- sarbacane — a type of blowpipe
- 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.
- sassenach — a term used by the Gaelic inhabitants of the British Isles to refer to the English inhabitants.
- sauciness — impertinent; insolent: a saucy remark; a saucy child.
- say uncle — a brother of one's father or mother.
- scale pan — one of the pans of a balance
- scaledown — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
- scaliness — a scaly quality or condition
- scamander — ancient name of the river Menderes.
- scan line — (hardware) A horizontal line of pixels generated by a single horizontal sweep of the beam from a monitor's electron gun. The number of scanlines that make up a frame is the vertical resolution.
- scannable — to glance at or over or read hastily: to scan a page.
- scantness — barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate: to do scant justice.
- scariness — the state or quality of being scary
- scarpines — an instrument for torturing feet
- scavenger — an animal or other organism that feeds on dead organic matter.
- scenarios — an outline of the plot of a dramatic work, giving particulars as to the scenes, characters, situations, etc.
- scenarist — a writer of motion-picture or television scenarios.
- scenarize — to make or create a scenario of something
- schatchen — shadkhan.
- schiavone — the Italian name for a 17th century basket-hilted sword with a double edge
- schnapper — a food fish, Pagrosomus auratus, occurring in large numbers off the shores of Australia and New Zealand.
- schnauzer — one of a German breed of sturdy medium-sized dogs having a tight, wiry, pepper-and-salt or pure black coat, bristly eyebrows and beardlike whiskers, and a docked tail, used originally as a ratter and a guard dog and later used in police work.
- 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.
- sciential — having knowledge.
- scrape in — to succeed in entering with difficulty or by a narrow margin
- screaking — screeching or creaking
- screaming — uttering screams.
- screwbean — a small tree or shrub of the south-western United States that has edible pods
- seannachy — Highland genealogist, chronicler, or bard
- searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- secondary — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- sectarian — of or relating to sectaries or sects.
- sectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- securance — the act or process of securing
- securitan — a person believing they are secure
- 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.
- semantics — Linguistics. the study of meaning. the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form.