9-letter words containing n, e, c, s
- archstone — a wedge-shaped stone forming the curved part of an arch
- arcsecond — unit used in astronomy
- arsenical — of or containing arsenic
- ascendant — proceeding upwards; rising
- ascendent — a position of dominance or controlling influence: possession of power, superiority, or preeminence: With his rivals in the ascendant, he soon lost his position.
- ascenders — Plural form of ascender.
- ascendeur — a metal grip that is threaded on a rope and can be alternately tightened and slackened as an aid to climbing the rope: used attached to slings for the feet and waist
- ascending — If a group of things is arranged in ascending order, each thing is bigger, greater, or more important than the thing before it.
- ascension — In some religions, when someone goes to heaven, you can refer to their ascension to heaven.
- ascensive — having the propensity to move in an upwards direction
- ascertain — If you ascertain the truth about something, you find out what it is, especially by making a deliberate effort to do so.
- asemantic — not semantic
- aspectant — (of birds, fish, and animals other than beasts of prey) face to face; respectant.
- assonance — the use of the same vowel sound with different consonants or the same consonant with different vowels in successive words or stressed syllables, as in a line of verse. Examples are time and light or mystery and mastery
- assurance — If you give someone an assurance that something is true or will happen, you say that it is definitely true or will definitely happen, in order to make them feel less worried.
- asyndetic — (of a catalogue or index) without cross references
- audiences — the group of spectators at a public event; listeners or viewers collectively, as in attendance at a theater or concert: The audience was respectful of the speaker's opinion.
- backbends — Plural form of backbend.
- backbones — Plural form of backbone.
- bacterins — a vaccine prepared from killed bacteria.
- balancers — Plural form of balancer.
- balconies — Plural form of balcony.
- barnacles — nose pincers for controlling an unruly horse
- basicness — Quality or degree of being basic.
- bechstein — Karl. 1826–1900, German piano maker; founder (1853) of the Bechstein company of piano manufacturers in Berlin
- beechnuts — Plural form of beechnut.
- benchless — without a bench or benches
- benchrest — a tablelike support for a target rifle used in target practice.
- biocenose — a situation in which organisms live together in mutual dependence
- bisection — to cut or divide into two equal or nearly equal parts.
- blackness — Blackness is the state of being very dark.
- braincase — the part of the cranium that protects the brain
- butchness — the state of being butch
- by inches — a unit of length, 1/12 (0.0833) foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.
- c-section — A C-section is the same as a Caesarean.
- c-spanner — a sickle-shaped spanner having a projection at the end of the curve, used for turning large narrow nuts that have an indentation into which the projection on the spanner fits
- cabernets — Plural form of cabernet.
- caesarean — of or relating to any of the Caesars, esp Julius Caesar
- caesarian — of or relating to a Cesarean.
- caesionid — (zoology) Any member of the Caesionidae.
- cagelings — Plural form of cageling.
- cageyness — the quality of being cagey
- caithness — (until 1975) a county of NE Scotland, now part of Highland
- calcaneus — the largest tarsal bone, forming the heel in man
- calendars — Plural form of calendar.
- calenders — Plural form of calender.
- calescent — increasing in heat
- calumnies — Plural form of calumny.
- cameroons — former region in W Africa consisting of two trust territories, French Cameroons (in 1960 forming the republic of Cameroon ) and British Cameroons (in 1961 divided between Cameroon and Nigeria)
- campesino — a Latin American rural peasant