9-letter words containing n, e, c, t, a
- predicant — preaching: a predicant religious order.
- procreant — procreating or generating: a sufficiently procreant breed of fish; a procreant cause.
- punctuate — to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
- quittance — recompense or requital.
- rack-rent — Also, rack rent. rent equal to or nearly equal to the full annual value of a property.
- racketing — Slang. an occupation, livelihood, or business. an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
- raconteur — a person who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.
- ranchette — a small-scale ranch, typically of only a few acres.
- reactance — Electricity. the opposition of inductance and capacitance to alternating current, expressed in ohms: equal to the product of the sine of the angular phase difference between current and voltage and the ratio of the effective voltage to the effective current. Symbol: X. Compare capacitive reactance, inductive reactance.
- reactants — a person or thing that reacts.
- recaption — the taking back without violence of one's property or a member of one's family or household unlawfully in the possession or custody of another.
- recaution — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- reclinate — bending or curved downward.
- recontact — the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.
- recountal — an act of recounting.
- rectangle — a parallelogram having four right angles.
- redaction — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- reductant — a reducing agent which as it is oxidized is capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance
- reluctant — unwilling; disinclined: a reluctant candidate.
- renascent — being reborn; springing again into being or vigor: a renascent interest in Henry James.
- replicant — an android that is indistinguishable from a human being
- rocinante — Rosinante.
- runcinate — (of a leaf) pinnately incised, with the lobes or teeth curved backward.
- runecraft — understanding of and skill working with runes
- sacrament — Ecclesiastical. a visible sign of an inward grace, especially one of the solemn Christian rites considered to have been instituted by Jesus Christ to symbolize or confer grace: the sacraments of the Protestant churches are baptism and the Lord's Supper; the sacraments of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches are baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, matrimony, penance, holy orders, and extreme unction.
- sagenitic — relating to sagenite
- scantness — barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate: to do scant justice.
- scenarist — a writer of motion-picture or television scenarios.
- schatchen — shadkhan.
- sciential — having knowledge.
- sectarian — of or relating to sectaries or sects.
- sectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- securitan — a person believing they are secure
- selectman — (in most New England states) one of a board of town officers chosen to manage certain public affairs.
- semantics — Linguistics. the study of meaning. the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form.
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- stagnance — not flowing or running, as water, air, etc.
- stanchest — staunch2 .
- stauncher — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- stenopaic — (of an optic device) having a narrow opening devised to improve eyesight by limiting obscurations
- stepdance — 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.
- stonechat — any of several small Old World birds, especially of the genus Saxicola, as S. torquata.
- stoneface — living stones.
- subjacent — situated or occurring underneath or below; underlying.
- substance — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- succinate — a salt or ester of succinic acid.
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- syndicate — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
- tabescent — wasting away; becoming emaciated or consumed.
- tachypnea — excessively rapid respiration.