10-letter words containing n, i, c, e, l
- semantical — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semi-colon — A semi-colon is the punctuation mark ; which is used in writing to separate different parts of a sentence or list or to indicate a pause.
- semicolony — a country which is partly colonial or which is officially independent but which in fact depends on or is dominated by another country
- semilucent — partially translucent
- sex clinic — a health centre where people can go for advice about sexual matters, contraception, sexually transmitted infections, etc
- sicilienne — a type of silk material
- sickliness — not strong; unhealthy; ailing.
- silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
- silkscreen — Also called silkscreen process. a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing.
- single-cut — noting a file having a series of parallel cutting ridges in one direction only.
- siren call — the appeal that something has although it is harmful or dangerous
- skeletonic — resembling a skeleton
- slackening — an act of becoming looser
- socialness — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- sock-liner — a thin piece of material, as leather, that is laid on top of the insole of a shoe, boot, or other footwear.
- solonetzic — characteristic of solonetz
- split cane — bamboo split into strips of triangular section, tapered, and glued to form a stiff but flexible hexagonal rod: used, esp formerly, for making fishing rods
- squelching — to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.
- stenciling — a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
- stencilize — to make into a stencil.
- stencilled — a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
- sternalgic — relating to or having sternalgia
- subceiling — a ceiling placed on a subdivision of a category; a sublimit
- sublicense — a license or contract granted to a third party by a licensee for specified rights or uses of a product, brand name, logo, etc.
- suppliance — appeal; entreaty; plea; supplication: He knelt in an attitude of suppliance.
- teleonomic — Biology. the principle that the body's structures and functions serve an overall purpose, as in assuring the survival of the organism.
- telephonic — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
- toric lens — a lens used to correct astigmatism, having one of its surfaces shaped like part of a torus so that its focal lengths are different in different meridians
- trancelike — a half-conscious state, seemingly between sleeping and waking, in which ability to function voluntarily may be suspended.
- tuberculin — a sterile liquid prepared from cultures of the tubercle bacillus, used in the diagnosis and, formerly, in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- ulcerating — to form an ulcer; become ulcerous: His skin ulcerated after exposure to radioactive material.
- ulceration — to form an ulcer; become ulcerous: His skin ulcerated after exposure to radioactive material.
- un-spliced — to join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands.
- unamicable — characterized by or showing goodwill; friendly; peaceable: an amicable settlement.
- unathletic — physically active and strong; good at athletics or sports: an athletic child.
- uncalcined — not calcined or reduced to ash; not consumed or purged by burning
- unchiseled — cut, shaped, etc., with a chisel: chiseled stone.
- unciliated — not ciliated or ciliate
- unclerical — not clerical; not characteristic of or appropriate for a member of the clergy
- uncloister — to free from confinement of any kind
- uncredible — not able to be believed
- uncrippled — not crippled
- undecimole — a cluster of notes dividing a section of music into eleven equal parts
- undeclined — to withhold or deny consent to do, enter into or upon, etc.; refuse: He declined to say more about it.
- undercliff — a low cliff created by extreme weather
- uneclipsed — not obscured or overshadowed
- unforcible — not able to be forced
- unicameral — consisting of a single chamber, as a legislative assembly.
- unicentral — (of growth or development) in, from, or around one central point
- uninclined — deviating in direction from the horizontal or vertical; sloping.