10-letter words containing s, a, n, c
- athabascan — a family of languages spoken by American Indians in most of inland northwest Canada and Alaska, in coastal Oregon and California, and in Arizona and the Rio Grande basin, and including especially Navajo, Apache, and Chipewyan. Compare family (def 14).
- athapascan — a group of North American Indian languages belonging to the Na-Dene phylum, including Apache and Navaho
- austenitic — consisting mainly of austenite.
- autonomics — the study of self-regulating systems for process control
- avalanches — Plural form of avalanche.
- avenaceous — belonging to or of the nature of oats or oat grasses
- avocations — Plural form of avocation.
- avoidances — Plural form of avoidance.
- bacchanals — Plural form of bacchanal.
- bacchantes — Plural form of bacchant.
- back slang — a type of slang in which words are spelled and, as far as possible, pronounced backwards
- backplanes — Plural form of backplane.
- backronyms — Plural form of backronym.
- backswings — Plural form of backswing.
- baldachins — Plural form of baldachin.
- bandicoots — Plural form of bandicoot.
- bench seat — a seat for more than one person
- bienseance — good breeding; decorum
- big casino — (in the game of casino) the ten of diamonds.
- binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
- black swan — a phenomenon that occurs even though it had been thought to be impossible
- blacklands — an area of fertile soil in Texas
- blacksnake — any of several Old World black venomous elapid snakes, esp Pseudechis porphyriacus (Australian blacksnake)
- blackstone — Sir William. 1723–80, English jurist noted particularly for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), which had a profound influence on jurisprudence in the US
- bnr pascal — ["Remote Rendezvous", N. Gammage et al, Soft Prac & Exp 17(10):741-755 (Oct 1987)].
- bonus pack — anything sold with a product and marketed as a useful and free extra
- brain scan — an examination of the brain, using radiological scanning techniques, used in medical diagnosis and scientific research
- brass neck — effrontery; nerve
- buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
- bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
- cacodemons — Plural form of cacodemon.
- cacogenics — dysgenics.
- cacuminous — (of a tree) having a pointed or a pyramidal top
- caecilians — Plural form of caecilian.
- caen stone — a cream-colored limestone quarried near Caen, France, for use in building.
- caesareans — Plural form of caesarean, an alternative capitalization of 'Caesarean'.
- caffeinism — caffeism
- cake stand — a plate on a pedestal used for displaying cakes in a shop or café, or for special cakes such as wedding cakes
- calcaneous — Misspelling of calcaneus.
- calcimines — Plural form of calcimine.
- calcinosis — the abnormal deposition of calcium salts in the tissues of the body
- calcsinter — travertine.
- calendulas — Plural form of calendula.
- calescence — an increasing heat
- caliginous — dark; dim
- call names — to speak of or to in an abusive manner
- callowness — immature or inexperienced: a callow youth.
- calumnious — of or using calumny
- camel spin — camel (def 3).
- campaniles — Plural form of campanile.