9-letter words containing r, a, s, c
- irascible — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- irascibly — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- ironclads — Plural form of ironclad.
- isocarpic — having carpels equal in number to the other floral parts.
- isocrates — 436–338 b.c, Athenian orator.
- isocratic — a government in which all individuals have equal political power.
- jack rose — a cocktail made with apple brandy, lime or lemon juice, and grenadine.
- jackscrew — a jack for lifting, consisting of a screw steadied by a threaded support and carrying a plate or other part bearing the load.
- jackstraw — one of a group of strips of wood or similar objects, as straws or toothpicks, used in the game of jackstraws.
- jacquards — Plural form of jacquard.
- jockstrap — an elasticized belt, a men's undergarment, with a pouch for supporting and protecting the genitals, worn especially while participating in athletics.
- justiciar — a high judicial officer in medieval England.
- key scarf — any of various scarf joints in which the overlapping parts are keyed together.
- kickstart — a starter, as of a motorcycle, that operates by a downward kick on a pedal.
- la crosse — a city in W Wisconsin, on the Mississippi River.
- lacerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lacerate.
- lacertids — Plural form of lacertid.
- lacrimoso — sad or mournful
- lag screw — type of threaded bolt
- lag-screw — to fasten with a lag screw.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- lancaster — the English royal family that reigned 1399–1461, descended from John of Gaunt (Duke of Lancaster), and that included Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI. Compare York (def 1).
- larcenist — a person who commits larceny.
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of larceny.
- laserdisc — A disk resembling a larger CD but able to store video, now generally replaced by the DVD.
- launchers — Plural form of launcher.
- leadscrew — A screw designed to translate turning motion into linear motion.
- leaf scar — the mark left on a stem or twig after a leaf falls.
- lincrusta — a wallpaper having a hard embossed surface
- lowercase — (of an alphabetical letter) of a particular form often different from and smaller than its corresponding capital letter, and occurring after the initial letter of a proper name, of the first word in a sentence, etc. Examples: a, b, q, r.
- lustrical — Pertaining to, or used for, purification.
- macaroons — Plural form of macaroon.
- macerates — Plural form of macerate.
- mackerels — Plural form of mackerel.
- mackerras — Sir Charles. 1925–2010, Australian conductor, esp of opera
- macro sap — Macro processing modification of SAP. D.E. Eastwood and D.M. McIlroy, unpublished memorandum, Bell Labs 1959. Led to TRAC.
- macrocosm — the great world or universe; the universe considered as a whole (opposed to microcosm).
- macrocyst — a large cyst or spore case, especially the encysted, resting plasmodium of a slime mold.
- macropods — Plural form of macropod.
- macropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be larger than their actual size.
- macrotous — having large ears
- macrurous — long-tailed, as a lobster (opposed to brachyurous).
- man crush — an intense but non-sexual admiration felt by one man for another
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- marcasite — Also called white iron pyrites. a common mineral, iron disulfide, FeS 2 , chemically similar to pyrite but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
- marcellus — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- mariachis — Plural form of mariachi.
- marruecos — Spanish name of Morocco.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- mascarade — Alternative form of masquerade.