10-letter words containing s, e, c, t
- alutaceous — Zoology. covered with minute cracks or wrinkles and having a pale, leathery-brown color.
- amebocytes — Plural form of amebocyte, an alternative spelling of amoebocyte.
- ammocoetes — Plural form of ammocoete.
- amoscanate — An experimental anthelmintic agent of the arylisothiocyanate class, found to be highly effective in animals against hookworms and the four major species of schistosomes, but possibly hepatotoxic.
- analeptics — Plural form of analeptic.
- anamnestic — of or relating to anamnesis
- ancestress — a female ancestor (sense 1) ancestor (sense 4)
- ancestries — Plural form of ancestry.
- anchorites — Plural form of anchorite.
- anecdotist — a person who tells or collects anecdotes
- anesthetic — relating to, with, or characterized by anesthesia
- anorectics — Plural form of anorectic.
- antecessor — a predecessor; someone who goes or has gone before
- anticaries — characterized by an ability to prevent caries
- anticlines — Plural form of anticline.
- antiseptic — Antiseptic is a substance that kills germs and harmful bacteria.
- aposematic — (of the coloration of certain distasteful or poisonous animals) characterized by bright conspicuous markings, which predators recognize and learn to avoid; warning
- arc secant — the angle, measured in radians, that has a secant equal to a given number. Symbol: sec −1. Abbreviation: arc sec;
- archetypes — the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.
- architects — Plural form of architect.
- archpriest — (formerly) a chief assistant to a bishop, performing many of his sacerdotal functions during his absence
- armistices — a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement of the warring parties; truce: World War I ended with the armistice of 1918.
- arsmetrick — relating to the cheeks of a person's bottom that are identical
- artichokes — Plural form of artichoke.
- artificers — Plural form of artificer.
- ascendants — Plural form of ascendant.
- ascerbated — Simple past tense and past participle of ascerbate.
- ascertains — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
- asceticism — Asceticism is a simple, strict way of life with no luxuries or physical pleasures.
- ascomycete — any fungus of the phylum Ascomycota (formerly class Ascomycetes) in which the spores (ascospores) are formed inside a club-shaped cell (ascus). The group includes yeast, penicillium, aspergillus, truffles, and certain mildews
- ascorbates — Plural form of ascorbate.
- ascriptive — having the ability to be attributable to
- asepticise — to make aseptic; to treat with aseptics
- asepticism — a form of care or treatment which prevents putrification
- asepticize — to cause (something) to be aseptic or non-putrefying
- aspectable — having the ability to be seen
- assertoric — (of a statement) stating a fact, as opposed to expressing an evaluative judgment
- assistance — If you give someone assistance, you help them do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
- associated — If one thing is associated with another, the two things are connected with each other.
- associates — Plural form of associate.
- astrictive — Binding; astringent.
- astrocytes — Plural form of astrocyte.
- asymmetric — Asymmetric means the same as asymmetrical.
- atascadero — a town in SW California.
- 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.
- attoparsec — (unit, humour) About 31 mm (one inch). "atto-" is the standard SI prefix for multiplication by 10^-18. A parsec (parallax-second) is 3.26 light-years; an attoparsec is thus 3.26 * 10^-18 light years. Thus, one attoparsec per microfortnight is about one inch per second. This unit is reported to be in use (though probably not very seriously) among hackers in the UK.
- audacities — Plural form of audacity.
- auscultate — to examine (a patient) by means of auscultation
- auspicated — Simple past tense and past participle of auspicate.