9-letter words containing n, e, c, t, a
- tacitness — understood without being openly expressed; implied: tacit approval.
- tackiness — not tasteful or fashionable; dowdy.
- tail cone — a cone-shaped component at the rear of a jet engine, rocket, or missile, usually serving as an exhaust pipe.
- tanorexic — obsessed with maintaining a permanent deep tan, esp through use of tanning machines
- tap dance — dance performed with clicking shoes
- tap-dance — to perform a tap dance.
- tarriance — delay.
- tea dance — a dance held at teatime.
- teachings — the act or profession of a person who teaches.
- technical — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
- tenacious — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
- tenaculum — Surgery. a small sharp-pointed hook set in a handle, used for seizing and picking up parts in operations and dissections.
- teniacide — an agent that destroys tapeworms.
- tentacled — having tentacles.
- terracing — a raised level with a vertical or sloping front or sides faced with masonry, turf, or the like, especially one of a series of levels rising one above another.
- testacean — having a shell or test.
- tetanical — related to tetanus
- tetracene — naphthacene.
- the fancy — those who follow a particular sport, esp prize fighting
- theandric — relating to the state of being both divine and human, esp pertaining to Christ
- theomancy — divination or prophecy by an oracle or by people directly inspired by a god
- thylacine — a wolflike marsupial, Thylacinus cynocephalus, of Tasmania, tan-colored with black stripes across the back: probably extinct.
- toe dance — a dance performed on tiptoe
- toe-dance — to perform a toe dance.
- tolerance — a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
- townscape — a scene or view, either pictorial or natural, of a town or city.
- trancedly — in a trancelike manner
- transcend — to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed: to transcend the limits of thought; kindness transcends courtesy.
- transcode — (language) An early system on the Ferut computer.
- transduce — to convert (energy) from one form into another.
- transfect — to cause transfection in (a cell).
- trenchant — incisive or keen, as language or a person; caustic; cutting: trenchant wit.
- trenchard — Hugh Montague, 1st Viscount, 1873–1956, British Royal Air Force marshal.
- truncated — truncated.
- tycoonate — the office or position of a tycoon
- unactable — (of a play, role, etc) not able to be acted or dramatized
- uncatered — to provide food, service, etc., as for a party or wedding: to cater for a banquet.
- uncertain — not definitely ascertainable or fixed, as in time of occurrence, number, dimensions, or quality.
- unchanted — a short, simple melody, especially one characterized by single notes to which an indefinite number of syllables are intoned, used in singing psalms, canticles, etc., in church services.
- uncharted — not shown or located on a map; unexplored; unknown, as a place or region: the uncharted depths of space.
- uncreated — not yet created; not existing
- undercast — Mining. a crossing of two passages, as airways, dug at the same level so that one descends to pass beneath the other without any opening into it. Compare overcast (def 9).
- undercoat — a coat or jacket worn under another.
- unenacted — to make into an act or statute: Congress has enacted a new tax law.
- unethical — lacking moral principles; unwilling to adhere to proper rules of conduct.
- unhatched — (of an egg) not having broken to release the fully developed young
- unlocated — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- unmatched — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- unpatched — a small piece of material used to mend a tear or break, to cover a hole, or to strengthen a weak place: patches at the elbows of a sports jacket.
- unscathed — not scathed; unharmed; uninjured: She survived the accident unscathed.