9-letter words containing s, e, a, c, r
- horsecart — A cart drawn by a horse.
- horserace — Alternative spelling of horse race.
- housecarl — a member of the household troops or bodyguard of a Danish or early English king or noble.
- huaraches — Plural form of huarache.
- icemakers — Plural form of icemaker.
- increased — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- increaser — a person or thing that increases.
- increases — Plural form of increase.
- insectary — a laboratory for the study of live insects, their life histories, effects on plants, reaction to insecticides, etc.
- insurance — the act, system, or business of providing financial protection for property, life, health, etc, against specified contingencies, such as death, loss, or damage, and involving payment of regular premiums in return for a policy guaranteeing such protection
- interacts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interact.
- irascible — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- isocrates — 436–338 b.c, Athenian orator.
- jack rose — a cocktail made with apple brandy, lime or lemon juice, and grenadine.
- jackscrew — a jack for lifting, consisting of a screw steadied by a threaded support and carrying a plate or other part bearing the load.
- key scarf — any of various scarf joints in which the overlapping parts are keyed together.
- la crosse — a city in W Wisconsin, on the Mississippi River.
- lacerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lacerate.
- lacertids — Plural form of lacertid.
- lag screw — type of threaded bolt
- lag-screw — to fasten with a lag screw.
- lancaster — the English royal family that reigned 1399–1461, descended from John of Gaunt (Duke of Lancaster), and that included Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI. Compare York (def 1).
- larcenist — a person who commits larceny.
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of larceny.
- laserdisc — A disk resembling a larger CD but able to store video, now generally replaced by the DVD.
- launchers — Plural form of launcher.
- leadscrew — A screw designed to translate turning motion into linear motion.
- leaf scar — the mark left on a stem or twig after a leaf falls.
- lowercase — (of an alphabetical letter) of a particular form often different from and smaller than its corresponding capital letter, and occurring after the initial letter of a proper name, of the first word in a sentence, etc. Examples: a, b, q, r.
- macerates — Plural form of macerate.
- mackerels — Plural form of mackerel.
- mackerras — Sir Charles. 1925–2010, Australian conductor, esp of opera
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- marcasite — Also called white iron pyrites. a common mineral, iron disulfide, FeS 2 , chemically similar to pyrite but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
- marcellus — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- marruecos — Spanish name of Morocco.
- mascarade — Alternative form of masquerade.
- mascaraed — a substance used as a cosmetic to color the eyelashes and eyebrows.
- masoretic — of or relating to the Masorah or the Masoretes.
- massacred — Simple past tense and past participle of massacre.
- massacree — (colloquial) A sequence of events so absurd, complicated and uncommon as to be unbelievable.
- massacrer — One who massacres.
- massacres — Plural form of massacre.
- mavericks — Plural form of maverick.
- mcalester — a city in E Oklahoma.
- merchants — a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- mescalero — a member of a group of Apache Indians who originally inhabited northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S. east of the Rio Grande, have intermarried with the Chiricahua and Lipan, and are presently situated in New Mexico.
- mesocarps — Plural form of mesocarp.
- mesocrany — the state of having a medium breadth of skull
- metacryst — a crystal formed by recrystallization of minerals in a metamorphic rock.