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.
- glackens — William 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