10-letter words containing s, c, i, a, t
- quitclaims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quitclaim.
- quittances — Plural form of quittance.
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- requiescat — a wish or prayer for the repose of the dead.
- resistance — the act or power of resisting, opposing, or withstanding.
- revanchist — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- rheostatic — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
- rheumatics — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rice blast — a disease of rice caused by the fungus Pyricularia oryae, characterized by elliptical leaf spots with reddish-brown margins, brownish lesions and neck rot of the fruiting panicles, and stunting of the plant.
- rickettsia — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- ritschlian — of or relating to the theology of Albrecht Ritschl (1822–89), who developed a liberal Christian theology and maintained that religious faith is based on value judgments.
- royalistic — relating to a royalist
- rusticator — to go to the country.
- sabbatical — of or pertaining or appropriate to the Sabbath.
- sac-a-lait — the white crappie. See under crappie.
- sacahuista — a North American flowering grass
- salicylate — a salt or ester of salicylic acid.
- salt stick — a crusty bread roll sprinkled with salt crystals, made in the shape of a cylinder.
- sanctified — made holy; consecrated: sanctified wine.
- sanctifier — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- sanctimony — pretended, affected, or hypocritical religious devotion, righteousness, etc.
- sanctioned — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sanctitude — holiness; saintliness; sanctity.
- sandy city — a town in central Utah.
- sanskritic — an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Abbreviation: Skt.
- satellitic — relating to a satellite or smaller planet that revolves around a larger planet
- scantiness — scant in amount, quantity, etc.; barely sufficient.
- scantlings — a timber of relatively slight width and thickness, as a stud or rafter in a house frame.
- scarlatina — scarlet fever.
- scattering — distributed or occurring here and there at irregular intervals; scattered.
- scaturient — gushing; overflowing.
- schalstein — a slate-like rock formed by shearing basaltic or andesitic tuff or lava
- schematism — the particular form or disposition of a thing.
- schematist — a person who forms schemes; a schemer
- schematize — to reduce to or arrange according to a scheme.
- schismatic — Also, schismatical. of, relating to, or of the nature of schism; guilty of schism.
- scholastic — of or relating to schools, scholars, or education: scholastic attainments.
- scintigram — a paper printout or photographic record indicating the intensity and distribution of radioactivity in tissues after administration of a radioactive tracer.
- sclerotial — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- scotodinia — a dizziness accompanied by a headache and disturbed vision
- scratching — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- scriptoria — a room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied.
- scriptural — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
- secretaire — any writing desk resembling a secretary.
- secularist — secular spirit or tendency, especially a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship.
- secularity — secular views or beliefs; secularism.
- see action — to participate in military combat
- semantical — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semiotical — of or relating to signs.