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9-letter words containing s, c, r, a

  • securitan — a person believing they are secure
  • self-care — care of the self without medical or other professional consultation.
  • sergeancy — the position or rank of a sergeant
  • severance — the act of severing or the state of being severed.
  • shacharis — Shaharith.
  • sharecrop — to cultivate (farmland) as a sharecropper
  • sharp-cut — cut so as to have a sharp edge: a tool with a sharp-cut blade.
  • shoe rack — shelving unit for storing footwear
  • shopcraft — any of various skilled trades involving maintenance or repair work, as metalworking or boilermaking, especially in the railroad industry.
  • shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
  • show card — an advertising placard or card.
  • side card — Poker. the highest card in a hand that is not part of a scoring combination, as not being one of a pair, three of a kind, etc., and that serves to determine by its denomination the higher ranking of two otherwise equal hands.
  • sidetrack — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
  • simulacra — a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
  • simulacre — simulacrum.
  • skew arch — an arch, as at the entrance to a tunnel, having sides, or jambs, that are not at right angles with the face.
  • skin care — the cleansing, massaging, moisturizing, etc., of the skin, especially the face or hands.
  • slackener — a person who, or something which, slackens
  • slavocrat — (in the US before the Civil War) a slaveholder, or an advocate of slavery
  • slice bar — a long-handled instrument with a blade at the end, for clearing away or breaking up clinkers, coal, etc., in a furnace.
  • smackeroo — a hard slap or swat: He gave the ball a smackeroo.
  • smearcase — any soft cheese suitable for spreading or eating with a spoon, especially a sour cottage cheese.
  • smiercase — any soft cheese suitable for spreading or eating with a spoon, especially a sour cottage cheese.
  • 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.
  • sociogram — a sociometric diagram representing the pattern of relationships between individuals in a group, usually expressed in terms of which persons they prefer to associate with.
  • 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.
  • space bar — a horizontal bar on a typewriter keyboard that is depressed in order to resume typing one space to the right.
  • space-bar — a horizontal bar on a typewriter keyboard that is depressed in order to resume typing one space to the right.
  • spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.
  • spaceward — going into space
  • spar deck — the upper deck of a vessel, extending from stem to stern.
  • spartacus — died 71 b.c, Thracian slave, gladiator, and insurrectionist.
  • spartanic — (usually lowercase) suggestive of the ancient Spartans; sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere.
  • sparticle — a hypothetical elementary particle thought to have been produced in the Big Bang
  • spec rate — (benchmark)   Results of the throughput measurement using SPEC benchmark suites CINT92 and CFP92. With the throughput measurement method, several copies of a given benchmark are executed. The method is particularly suitable for multiprocessor systems. The results, called SPEC rate, express how many jobs of a particular type (characterised by the individual benchmark) can be executed in a given time (The SPEC reference time happens to be a week, the execution times are normalized with respect to a VAX 11/780). The SPEC rates therefore characterise the capacity of a system for compute-intensive jobs of similar characteristics. See also SPEC ratio.
  • spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
  • spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
  • spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
  • sporocarp — (in higher fungi, lichens, and red algae) a multicellular structure in which spores form; a fruiting body.
  • sport car — a small, high-powered automobile with long, low lines, usually seating two persons.
  • sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
  • spot card — spot (def 10b).
  • spray can — a small can whose contents are in aerosol form. Compare aerosol bomb.
  • squad car — police vehicle
  • squirarch — a person who believes in government by squires
  • st. clair — Arthur, 1736–1818, American Revolutionary War general, born in Scotland: 1st governor of the Northwest Territory, 1787–1802.
  • stackroom — an area in a library where books are not on open shelves
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