10-letter words containing s, c, i, e
- associates — Plural form of associate.
- astrictive — Binding; astringent.
- asymmetric — Asymmetric means the same as asymmetrical.
- atrocities — acts of extreme cruelty, esp against prisoners or civilians in wartime
- attic base — (in classical architecture) a base for a column, consisting of an upper and a lower torus separated by a scotia between two fillets.
- audacities — Plural form of audacity.
- auriscopes — Plural form of auriscope.
- auspicated — Simple past tense and past participle of auspicate.
- austenitic — consisting mainly of austenite.
- autarchies — Plural form of autarchy.
- autoecious — (of parasites, esp the rust fungi) completing the entire life cycle on a single species of host
- aviatrices — Plural form of aviatrix.
- avoidances — Plural form of avoidance.
- ayurvedics — a therapeutic system based on the Ayurveda
- back issue — A back issue of a magazine or newspaper is one that was published some time ago and is not the most recent.
- backbiters — Plural form of backbiter.
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- backsplice — a knot for finishing a rope end neatly, beginning with a crown and proceeding in a series of tucks, each strand over the first adjoining strand and under the next, the strands being split in half at each tuck.
- baltic sea — a sea in N Europe, connected with the North Sea by the Skagerrak, Kattegat, and Öresund; shallow, with low salinity and small tides
- barricades — Plural form of barricade.
- base price — a price quoted as a base without including additional charges.
- basic rate — the standard or lowest level on a scale of money payable, esp in taxation
- basic wage — a person's wage excluding overtime, bonuses, etc
- basilectal — (linguistics) of, or relating to a basilect.
- beast epic — a long verse narrative in which the misadventures of animals satirize human foibles and follies.
- benedictus — a short canticle beginning Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini in Latin and Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord in English
- berlusconi — Silvio (ˈsilvjo). born 1936, Italian politician and media tycoon: prime minister of Italy (1994–95, 2001–06, 2008–11); convicted of tax fraud and expelled from the Italian Senate in 2013
- bescribble — to cover with scribbles
- beseeching — A beseeching expression, gesture, or tone of voice suggests that the person who has or makes it very much wants someone to do something.
- besmirched — to soil; tarnish; discolor.
- bienseance — good breeding; decorum
- big cheese — Someone who has a very important job or position can be referred to as a big cheese.
- big screen — When people talk about the big screen, they are referring to films that are made for cinema rather than for television.
- bile ducts — a large duct that transports bile from the liver to the duodenum, having in humans and many other vertebrates a side branch to a gallbladder for bile storage.
- biocenosis — a community of biologically integrated and interdependent plants and animals
- biochemist — A biochemist is a scientist or student who studies biochemistry.
- biometrics — that branch of biology which deals with its data statistically and by mathematical analysis
- bioprocess — a method or operation of preparing a biological material, especially a product of genetic engineering, for commercial use.
- bioscience — the life sciences collectively
- biospheric — relating to the biosphere
- bitchiness — characteristic of a bitch; spiteful; malicious.
- black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
- blue dicks — a plant, Dichelostemma pulchellum, of the amaryllis family, common on the western coast of the U.S., having headlike clusters of blue flowers.
- brake disc — a metal disc that revolves with the wheel in a disc brake
- breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
- brix scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the concentration and density of sugar solutions at a given temperature
- c terminus — the carboxyl end of a protein molecule.
- cabriolets — Plural form of cabriolet.
- cache miss — (storage) A request to read from memory which cannot be satisfied from the cache, for which the main memory has to be consulted. Opposite: cache hit.