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8-letter words containing n, e, c, s

  • etchings — Plural form of etching.
  • etruscan — a member of an ancient people of central Italy whose civilization influenced the Romans, who had suppressed them by about 200 bc
  • eugenics — The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Developed largely by Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, it fell into disfavor only after the perversion of its doctrines by the Nazis.
  • evanesce — Pass out of sight, memory, or existence.
  • excising — Present participle of excise.
  • excision — The deletion of some text during editing.
  • excitons — Plural form of exciton.
  • excusing — Present participle of excuse.
  • excusion — Misspelling of excursion.
  • exsecant — a trigonometric function related to the secant function
  • fanciers — Plural form of fancier.
  • fanciest — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
  • fascines — Plural form of fascine.
  • feasance — the doing or performing of an act, as of a condition or duty.
  • fescuing — Present participle of fescue.
  • fiancees — Plural form of fiancee.
  • finances — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
  • flinches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flinch.
  • flounces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flounce.
  • forensic — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
  • forinsec — foreign
  • fornices — any of various arched or vaulted structures, as an arching fibrous formation in the brain.
  • frenches — of, relating to, or characteristic of France, its inhabitants, or their language, culture, etc.: French cooking.
  • fuchsine — A dye (rosaniline hydrochloride or similar) usually a deep red or magenta colour.
  • furnaces — Plural form of furnace.
  • gascogne — Gascony
  • generics — Plural form of generic.
  • genetics — Biology. the science of heredity, dealing with resemblances and differences of related organisms resulting from the interaction of their genes and the environment.
  • genomics — the study of genomes.
  • genseric — a.d. c390–477, king of the Vandals, conqueror in northern Africa and Italy.
  • glackensWilliam James, 1870–1938, U.S. painter and illustrator.
  • gneissic — a metamorphic rock, generally made up of bands that differ in color and composition, some bands being rich in feldspar and quartz, others rich in hornblende or mica.
  • grinches — Plural form of grinch.
  • groschen — a zinc or aluminum coin of Austria until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a schilling.
  • guesclin — Bertrand du ?1320–80, French commander during the Hundred Years' War
  • hackneys — Plural form of hackney.
  • haunches — the hip.
  • hedonics — the branch of psychology that deals with pleasurable and unpleasurable states of consciousness.
  • helicons — Plural form of helicon.
  • hencoops — Plural form of hencoop.
  • henpecks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of henpeck.
  • hyoscine — scopolamine.
  • icestone — a rare crystalline mineral also known as cryolite
  • icewines — Plural form of icewine.
  • ichnites — Plural form of ichnite.
  • ickiness — repulsive or distasteful.
  • incensed — an aromatic gum or other substance producing a sweet odor when burned, used in religious ceremonies, to enhance a mood, etc.
  • incenser — One who instigates or incites.
  • incenses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incense.
  • incensor — an incense burner; censer
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