10-letter words containing n, e, c, s
- sea urchin — any echinoderm of the class Echinoidea, having a somewhat globular or discoid form, and a shell composed of many calcareous plates covered with projecting spines.
- seannachie — a Gaelic storyteller in the Scottish Highlands or in Ireland
- second man — a person who assists the driver in crewing a locomotive
- second row — the forwards in the second row of a scrum
- second sex — one sex considered as secondary or subordinate in role to the other, especially women in a male-dominated society.
- second-run — designating or of:
- secondhand — not directly known or experienced; obtained from others or from books: Most of our knowledge is secondhand.
- secondment — the transfer of a military officer or corporate executive to another post for temporary duty.
- secretness — secrecy
- sectioning — a part that is cut off or separated.
- sectionize — to form or divide into sections
- secundines — the inner integument of an ovule.
- securement — the act of securing.
- secureness — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- seducement — an act of seducing
- seducingly — in a seducing manner
- see action — to participate in military combat
- seger cone — a pyrometric cone composed of clay and salt.
- selectance — a measure of the drop in response of a radio receiving set or the like to a given frequency differing from the resonant frequency of the device, expressed as the ratio of the amplitude of the response at the resonant frequency to the amplitude of the response at the given frequency.
- seleucidan — Seleucid.
- semantical — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semi-colon — A semi-colon is the punctuation mark ; which is used in writing to separate different parts of a sentence or list or to indicate a pause.
- semicolony — a country which is partly colonial or which is officially independent but which in fact depends on or is dominated by another country
- semilucent — partially translucent
- senescence — growing old; aging.
- sequencing — the following of one thing after another; succession.
- serviceman — a member of the armed forces of a country.
- servicemen — a member of the armed forces of a country.
- settecento — the 18th cent. as a period in Italian art and literature
- seven-inch — a phonograph record seven inches in diameter, usually having one popular song on each side.
- sevenpence — a monetary sum equal to seven pennies
- sex change — the alteration, by surgery and hormone treatments, of a person's physical sex characteristics to approximate those of the opposite sex: Born male, she now lives as a woman but has no plans for a sex change.
- sex clinic — a health centre where people can go for advice about sexual matters, contraception, sexually transmitted infections, etc
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.
- shevchenko — Taras Grigoryevich [Russian tah-ruh s gryi-gawr-yi-vyich] /Russian ˈtɑ rəs gryɪˈgɔr yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1814–61, Ukrainian national poet.
- sicilienne — a type of silk material
- sickerness — sureness
- sickliness — not strong; unhealthy; ailing.
- sicknesses — a particular disease or malady.
- side chain — a group of atoms bound to an atom, usually a carbon, that forms part of a larger chain or ring in a molecule
- silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
- silkscreen — Also called silkscreen process. a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing.
- sine curve — a curve described by the equation y = sin x, the ordinate being equal to the sine of the abscissa.
- single-cut — noting a file having a series of parallel cutting ridges in one direction only.
- siren call — the appeal that something has although it is harmful or dangerous
- skeletonic — resembling a skeleton
- slackening — an act of becoming looser
- slam dance — a dance performed to punk rock by groups of people who flail and toss themselves about and slam into one another.
- small cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.