9-letter words containing n, o, t, i, c, e
- oogenetic — Of or pertaining to oogenesis.
- open city — a city that, during a war, is officially declared demilitarized and open to occupation, and that will consequently not be defended, in order to spare it, under international law, from bombardment or other military attack.
- pectinose — arabinose.
- penticton — a city in S British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- phonetics — (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.
- pocketing — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- pontifice — a priest in ancient Rome
- preaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- princeton — a borough in central New Jersey: battle 1777.
- procident — relating to a prolapse
- proteinic — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- 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.
- reception — the act of receiving or the state of being received.
- recondite — dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise.
- reconvict — to convict (someone) again
- recosting — the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything: the high cost of a good meal.
- redaction — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
- refection — refreshment, especially with food or drink.
- rejection — the act or process of rejecting.
- reliction — the process by which water recedes over time, changing the waterline and leaving land permanently exposed
- resection — Surveying. a technique of ascertaining the location of a point by taking bearings from the point on two other points of known location.
- rocinante — Rosinante.
- sclerotin — an insoluble protein that serves to stiffen the chitin of the cuticle of arthropods.
- 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.
- sick note — proof of illness
- 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.
- 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
- technikon — a technical college
- tectonics — the science or art of assembling, shaping, or ornamenting materials in construction; the constructive arts in general.
- tectonism — diastrophism (def 1).
- tenacious — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
- threnodic — a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, especially for the dead; dirge; funeral song.
- tierceron — (in a ribbed vault) a diagonal rib, other than an ogive, springing from a point of support.
- touchline — any of the outer lines bordering the playing field.
- toxigenic — (especially of microorganisms) producing toxins.
- tricerion — a candlestick with three arms
- tricotine — cavalry twill.
- unnoticed — an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning: a day's notice.
- vectoring — the act of vectoring or guiding aircraft using vectors
- vicontiel — pertaining to the sheriff or viscount.