9-letter words containing r, a, n, c
- scrapping — a fight or quarrel: She got into a scrap with her in-laws.
- scrawling — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- screaking — screeching or creaking
- screaming — uttering screams.
- screwbean — a small tree or shrub of the south-western United States that has edible pods
- scrubland — land on which the natural vegetation is chiefly scrub.
- searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- secondary — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- sectarian — of or relating to sectaries or sects.
- securance — the act or process of securing
- securitan — a person believing they are secure
- sergeancy — the position or rank of a sergeant
- severance — the act of severing or the state of being severed.
- skin care — the cleansing, massaging, moisturizing, etc., of the skin, especially the face or hands.
- slackener — a person who, or something which, slackens
- snack bar — a lunchroom or restaurant where light meals are sold.
- snow crab — an edible spider crab of the North Pacific, Chionoecetes opilio, commercially important as a frozen seafood product.
- songcraft — the art of songwriting
- sonicator — a device for treatment with ultrasound
- soundcard — A soundcard is a piece of equipment which can be put into a computer so that the computer can produce music or other sounds.
- spartanic — (usually lowercase) suggestive of the ancient Spartans; sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere.
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- spray can — a small can whose contents are in aerosol form. Compare aerosol bomb.
- stauncher — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- stratonic — of or relating to an army
- strychnia — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- subbranch — a subordinate branch or a branch of a branch, as of a bank, business, or the like.
- subcantor — a deputy to a cantor
- succorant — the act of seeking out affectionate care and social support.
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- sugarcane — a tall grass, Saccharum officinarum, of tropical and warm regions, having a stout, jointed stalk, and constituting the chief source of sugar.
- sun cream — a chemical, usually in the form of a cream, applied to exposed skin to block out all or almost all of the ultraviolet rays of the sun
- surfacing — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
- synsacrum — a dorsal ridge of bone in the pelvic region of birds, formed by the fusion of certain thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and caudal vertebrae.
- tanorexic — obsessed with maintaining a permanent deep tan, esp through use of tanning machines
- tarriance — delay.
- 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.
- tetracene — naphthacene.
- theandric — relating to the state of being both divine and human, esp pertaining to Christ
- thornback — a skate, Raja clavata, of European waters, having short spines on the back and tail.
- tocharian — a member of a central Asian people of high culture, who were assimilated with other peoples about the 11th century a.d.
- 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.
- trachinus — a weever fish
- trainsick — ill with train sickness.
- trancedly — in a trancelike manner
- tranching — Finance. one part or division of a larger unit, as of an asset pool or investment: The loan will be repaid in three tranches. a group of securities that share a certain characteristic and form part of a larger offering: The second tranche of the bond issue has a five-year maturity.
- 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).