8-letter words containing s, c, r, e
- frescoer — a person who paints in fresco
- frescoes — Also called buon fresco, true fresco. the art or technique of painting on a moist, plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture. Compare fresco secco.
- frickles — Plural form of frickle.
- fructose — Chemistry, Pharmacology. a yellowish to white, crystalline, water-soluble, levorotatory ketose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , sweeter than sucrose, occurring in invert sugar, honey, and a great many fruits: used in foodstuffs and in medicine chiefly in solution as an intravenous nutrient.
- furnaces — Plural form of furnace.
- gaiseric — Genseric.
- gearcase — a protective casing for the gear mechanism of a vehicle or piece of machinery
- generics — Plural form of generic.
- genseric — a.d. c390–477, king of the Vandals, conqueror in northern Africa and Italy.
- georgics — Plural form of georgic.
- geschrei — a yell; shout.
- glaciers — an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers.
- grackles — Plural form of grackle.
- graecism — the spirit of Greek thought, art, etc.
- grimaces — Make a grimace.
- grinches — Plural form of grinch.
- grockles — Plural form of grockle.
- groschen — a zinc or aluminum coin of Austria until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a schilling.
- grouches — Plural form of grouch.
- grutches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grutch.
- hachures — Short parallel lines used in hill-shading on maps, their closeness indicating steepness of gradient.
- hardcase — a container that has a rigid structure
- hechsher — rabbinical approval of meats and other foods that comply with the ritual requirements of Jewish dietary laws, usually issued in the form of an endorsing mark or stamp on the products so approved.
- hecklers — Plural form of heckler.
- hectares — Plural form of hectare.
- heracles — Hercules (def 1).
- hercules — a hero noted for his great strength, courage, and for the performance of twelve immense labours
- heretics — Plural form of heretic.
- herschel — Sir John Frederick William, 1792–1871, English astronomer.
- horsecar — a streetcar drawn by a horse or horses.
- huckster — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- hysteric — Usually, hysterics. a fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping; hysteria.
- icebergs — Plural form of iceberg.
- idocrase — vesuvianite.
- incenser — One who instigates or incites.
- incensor — an incense burner; censer
- incisure — a notch, as in a bone or other structure.
- incloser — Archaic form of encloser.
- incomers — Plural form of incomer.
- incorpse — to incorporate
- increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- inducers — Plural form of inducer.
- inscribe — to address or dedicate (a book, photograph, etc.) informally to a person, especially by writing a brief personal note in or on it.
- insecure — subject to fears, doubts, etc.; not self-confident or assured: an insecure person.
- iriscope — an instrument that displays the prismatic colours, consisting of a polished black glass which is breathed upon via a tube
- isochore — Physics.. Also, isochor. Also called isometric, isometric line. for a given substance, a curve graphing temperature against pressure, when the volume of the substance is held constant.
- isocryme — a line on a map connecting points that have the same temperature during the coldest period of a year
- isomeric — of, relating to, or displaying isomerism.
- justicer — a judge or magistrate.
- keramics — ceramics.