9-letter words containing n, i, c, o, s
- scoreline — sports: intermediate or final score
- scotching — scutch (defs 2, 4).
- scourging — a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
- scourings — dirt or refuse removed by scouring.
- scrolling — computing: moving around screen
- secession — an act or instance of seceding.
- seclusion — an act of secluding: the seclusion of unruly students.
- seconding — next after the first; being the ordinal number for two.
- secretion — (in a cell or gland) the act or process of separating, elaborating, and releasing a substance that fulfills some function within the organism or undergoes excretion.
- sectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- seduction — an act or instance of seducing, especially sexually.
- selection — an act or instance of selecting or the state of being selected; choice.
- semicolon — the punctuation mark (;) used to indicate a major division in a sentence where a more distinct separation is felt between clauses or items on a list than is indicated by a comma, as between the two clauses of a compound sentence.
- serricorn — a beetle with serrate antennae
- siciliano — a graceful folk dance of Sicily.
- sick note — proof of illness
- sincelejo — a city in Sucre department, NW Colombia.
- smooching — smutch.
- sociation — an association
- socked in — to strike or hit hard.
- solomonic — of or relating to King Solomon.
- sonically — in a sonic manner
- sonicator — a device for treatment with ultrasound
- sosnowiec — a city in S Poland.
- stanchion — an upright bar, beam, post, or support, as in a window, stall, ship, etc.
- stegnotic — a medication that is constipating or astringent
- stenopaic — (of an optic device) having a narrow opening devised to improve eyesight by limiting obscurations
- stenopeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
- sticheron — a liturgical hymn sung in the Orthodox Church
- stockinet — Also, stockinet. a stretchy, machine-knitted fabric used for making undergarments, infants' wear, etc.
- stratonic — of or relating to an army
- striction — the act of constricting.
- subaction — an act of subduing
- submicron — (of particles) being less than a micron in overall dimensions.
- suboscine — of or relating to birds of the suborder Suboscines, of the order Passeriformes, comprising the supposedly more primitive members of the order, with less well developed vocal organs than the oscine birds.
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- sulcation — having long, narrow grooves or channels, as plant stems, or being furrowed or cleft, as hoofs.
- suspicion — act of suspecting.
- switch on — the act or process of switching on an ignition, light, appliance, etc.
- switch-on — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- symphonic — Music. of, for, pertaining to, or having the character of a symphony or symphony orchestra.
- syndromic — Pathology, Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like.
- synecious — synoicous.
- synodical — of a synod; synodal
- synoecism — (in ancient Greece) the union of towns under one capital city
- synoecize — (in ancient Greece) to unite under one capital city
- synoicous — having male and female flowers on one head, as in many composite plants.
- synonymic — a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language, as happy, joyful, elated. A dictionary of synonyms and antonyms (or opposites), such as Thesaurus.com, is called a thesaurus.
- synovitic — inflammation of a synovial membrane.
- tectonics — the science or art of assembling, shaping, or ornamenting materials in construction; the constructive arts in general.