10-letter words containing s, c
- accusingly — to charge with the fault, offense, or crime (usually followed by of): He accused him of murder.
- accustomed — If you are accustomed to something, you know it so well or have experienced it so often that it seems natural, unsurprising, or easy to deal with.
- acephalous — having no head or one that is reduced and indistinct, as certain insect larvae
- acetylides — Plural form of acetylide.
- achaemenes — flourished 7th century b.c, Persian king: traditional founder of the Achaemenid dynasty.
- achromasia — Absence of normal skin pigmentation (from bruising, stress or disease); pallor or achromia.
- acid house — Acid house is a type of electronic dance music with a strong, repeated rhythm.
- acidolysis — decomposition resulting from the interaction of a compound and an acid.
- acidophils — Plural form of acidophil.
- acidulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acidulate.
- acinaceous — containing or consisting of kernels, particularly the seeds or stones of grapes
- acinarious — covered with globose vesicles resembling grape seeds, as certain algae.
- acolouthos — the chief of the Varangian guard in the Byzantine empire during the Palaeologan period
- acoustical — acoustic; specif., having to do with the control of sound
- acousticks — Obsolete form of acoustics.
- acquiesced — to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent: to acquiesce halfheartedly in a business plan.
- acquiesces — to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent: to acquiesce halfheartedly in a business plan.
- acquisitor — a person who has a tendency to acquire (information or ideas), or a desire to possess
- acquittals — Plural form of acquittal.
- acrobatics — Acrobatics are acrobatic movements.
- acrobatism — the art, or feats, of the acrobat
- acrogenous — (botany) Increasing by growth from the extremity.
- acrogynous — having the female reproductive organ arising from the apical cell of the stem, thereby terminating its growth, as certain liverworts.
- acronymous — a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
- acrostical — relating to an acrostic
- actinopods — any protozoan of the subclass Actinopoda, including the heliozoans and radiolarians, having stiff, rodlike, radiating pseudopodia.
- actionless — inactive, without action
- activators — Plural form of activator.
- active sun — the sun at a maximum of solar activity, occurring every 11 years.
- activeness — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- activistic — of or relating to activism
- activities — the state or quality of being active: There was not much activity in the stock market today. He doesn't have enough physical activity in his life.
- activity's — the state or quality of being active: There was not much activity in the stock market today. He doesn't have enough physical activity in his life.
- actomyosin — a complex protein in skeletal muscle that is formed by actin and myosin and which, when stimulated, shortens to cause muscle contraction
- actual sin — any sin that a person commits of his own free will and for which he is personally responsible
- actualised — Simple past tense and past participle of actualise.
- actualizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of actualize.
- actualness — The state or quality of being actual.
- actuations — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- actus reus — a criminal action regarded as a constituent element of a crime, as compared with the state of mind of the perpetrator
- acute dose — a total dose of radiation administered over such a short period that biological recovery is impossible
- adactylous — possessing no fingers or toes
- adam's cup — pitcher plant.
- addictions — Plural form of addiction.
- addictives — Plural form of addictive.
- adequacies — Plural form of adequacy.
- adherences — Plural form of adherence.
- adipocytes — Plural form of adipocyte.
- adjectives — Grammar. any member of a class of words that modify nouns and pronouns, primarily by describing a particular quality of the word they are modifying, as wise in a wise grandmother, or perfect in a perfect score, or handsome in He is extremely handsome. Other terms, as numbers (one cup; twelve months), certain demonstrative pronouns (this magazine; those questions), and terms that impose limits (each person; no mercy) can also function adjectivally, as can some nouns that are found chiefly in fixed phrases where they immediately precede the noun they modify, as bottle in bottle cap and bus in bus station. Synonyms: modifier, qualifier, identifier, describer, describing word.
- adolescent — Adolescent is used to describe young people who are no longer children but who have not yet become adults. It also refers to their behaviour.