10-letter words containing n, e, c, s
- beseeching — A beseeching expression, gesture, or tone of voice suggests that the person who has or makes it very much wants someone to do something.
- bienseance — good breeding; decorum
- big screen — When people talk about the big screen, they are referring to films that are made for cinema rather than for television.
- biocenosis — a community of biologically integrated and interdependent plants and animals
- bioscience — the life sciences collectively
- bitchiness — characteristic of a bitch; spiteful; malicious.
- blacksnake — any of several Old World black venomous elapid snakes, esp Pseudechis porphyriacus (Australian blacksnake)
- blackstone — Sir William. 1723–80, English jurist noted particularly for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), which had a profound influence on jurisprudence in the US
- brass neck — effrontery; nerve
- c terminus — the carboxyl end of a protein molecule.
- cacodemons — Plural form of cacodemon.
- cacogenics — dysgenics.
- caecilians — Plural form of caecilian.
- caen stone — a cream-colored limestone quarried near Caen, France, for use in building.
- caesareans — Plural form of caesarean, an alternative capitalization of 'Caesarean'.
- caffeinism — caffeism
- cake stand — a plate on a pedestal used for displaying cakes in a shop or café, or for special cakes such as wedding cakes
- calcaneous — Misspelling of calcaneus.
- calcimines — Plural form of calcimine.
- calcsinter — travertine.
- calendulas — Plural form of calendula.
- calescence — an increasing heat
- call names — to speak of or to in an abusive manner
- callowness — immature or inexperienced: a callow youth.
- camel spin — camel (def 3).
- campaniles — Plural form of campanile.
- cancelbots — Plural form of cancelbot.
- cancellous — having a porous or spongelike structure
- candescent — glowing or starting to glow with heat
- candidates — Plural form of candidate.
- candidness — frank; outspoken; open and sincere: a candid critic.
- candlefish — a salmonoid food fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, that occurs in the N Pacific and has oily flesh
- candlenuts — Plural form of candlenut.
- candlepins — a type of bowling game, employing a smaller ball than tenpins, in which three balls are allowed to a frame and fallen pins are not removed from the alley
- cane grass — any of several tall perennial hard-stemmed grasses, esp Eragrostis australasica, of inland swamps
- cane sugar — the sucrose obtained from sugar cane, which is identical to that obtained from sugar beet
- canebrakes — Plural form of canebrake.
- canefields — Plural form of canefield.
- canephoros — in ancient Greece, any of the maidens who carried on her head a basket holding the sacred things used at feasts
- cannelures — Plural form of cannelure.
- cannisters — Plural form of cannister.
- cannonades — Plural form of cannonade.
- cannoneers — Plural form of cannoneer.
- canonesses — Plural form of canoness.
- cantabiles — Plural form of cantabile.
- cantilenas — Plural form of cantilena.
- cantor set — the set obtained from the closed interval from 0 to 1 by removing the middle third from the interval, then the middle third from each of the two remaining sets, and continuing the process indefinitely.
- canvaslike — resembling canvas
- canvassers — Plural form of canvasser.
- carabiners — Plural form of carabiner.