10-letter words containing n, e, c, s
- snaphaunce — an early flintlock mechanism for igniting a charge of gunpowder in a gun.
- snickering — to laugh in a half-suppressed, indecorous or disrespectful manner.
- snow cover — a layer of snow on the ground.
- snow fence — a barrier erected on the windward side of a road, house, barn, etc., serving as a protection from drifting snow.
- snow-creep — a continuous, slow, downhill movement of snow.
- snowcapped — topped with snow: the snowcapped Alps.
- socialness — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- sociogenic — caused or influenced by society or social factors: sociogenic problems.
- sock-liner — a thin piece of material, as leather, that is laid on top of the insole of a shoe, boot, or other footwear.
- solacement — a comfort or consolation
- solenocyte — a type of long, narrow, flagellated cell that functions in excretion of nitrogenous wastes and occurs in a variety of organisms, including certain annelids and mollusks.
- solonetzic — characteristic of solonetz
- somewhence — from somewhere
- somnolence — sleepy; drowsy.
- song cycle — a group of art songs that are usually all by the same poet and composer and have a unifying subject or idea.
- sonic mine — an underwater naval explosive which is activated using sound. Also called an acoustic mine.
- sophoclean — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
- soricident — having shrewlike teeth
- soundscape — the component sounds of an environment.
- space junk — objects such as artificial satellites, material discarded from space stations, etc that remain in space after use
- spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
- spacewoman — a woman astronaut.
- speciation — the formation of new species as a result of geographic, physiological, anatomical, or behavioral factors that prevent previously interbreeding populations from breeding with each other.
- spectating — to participate as a spectator, as at a horse race.
- spencerian — pertaining to or characteristic of a system of penmanship, characterized by clear, rounded letters slanting to the right.
- spinaceous — pertaining to or of the nature of spinach; belonging to the amaranth family of plants.
- spinescent — Botany. becoming spinelike. ending in a spine. bearing spines.
- split cane — bamboo split into strips of triangular section, tapered, and glued to form a stiff but flexible hexagonal rod: used, esp formerly, for making fishing rods
- spongecake — sweet cake of eggs and flour
- spongocoel — the central cavity in the body of a sponge.
- sporogenic — relating to the production or formation of spores, or producing spores
- spumescent — foamy; foamlike; frothy.
- squelching — to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.
- stanchless — not to be stanched.
- stanchness — the state or quality of being staunch
- staunchest — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- stenciling — 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.
- stencilize — to make into a stencil.
- stencilled — 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.
- stenopaeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
- stenotopic — (of an animal or plant) able to tolerate only small environmental changes.
- step dance — a dance in which the steps are the most important characteristic, specifically a solo dance with intricate, vigorous steps, often performed with the hands kept in the pockets.
- stepdancer — a person who engages in stepdancing
- sternalgic — relating to or having sternalgia
- sterno can — a small can of Sterno
- stickering — a person or thing that sticks.
- stickiness — having the property of adhering, as glue; adhesive.
- sticky end — a single-stranded end of DNA or RNA having a nucleotide base sequence complementary to that of another strand, enabling the two strands to be connected by base pairing: produced in the laboratory with the use of restriction enzymes for genetic engineering purposes.
- stockiness — the quality of being stocky
- stockinged — a close-fitting covering for the foot and part of the leg, usually knitted, of wool, cotton, nylon, silk, or similar material.