8-letter words containing s, e, c, t
- etchings — Plural form of etching.
- eteocles — a son of Oedipus and Jocasta. He expelled his brother Polynices from Thebes; they killed each other in single combat when Polynices returned as leader of the Seven against Thebes
- ethicise — Alt form ethicize.
- ethicism — devotion to ethical principles
- ethicist — A person, especially a philosopher, who studies ethics (principles governing right and wrong conduct).
- etruscan — a member of an ancient people of central Italy whose civilization influenced the Romans, who had suppressed them by about 200 bc
- eustatic — Of or pertaining to eustasy.
- eustelic — Of or possessing a eustele.
- exactest — Superlative form of exact.
- excerpts — Plural form of excerpt.
- exciters — Plural form of exciter.
- excitons — Plural form of exciton.
- excretes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of excrete.
- executes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of execute.
- exorcist — A person, especially a priest, who practices exorcism.
- exsecant — a trigonometric function related to the secant function
- extracts — Plural form of extract.
- factures — Plural form of facture.
- fanciest — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
- fasciate — bound with a band, fillet, or bandage.
- fast ice — ice that is frozen to, grounded on, or attached to the bottom of an area covered by shallow water.
- fetchers — to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
- fetlocks — Plural form of fetlock.
- ficklest — likely to change, especially due to caprice, irresolution, or instability; casually changeable: fickle weather.
- fiercest — menacingly wild, savage, or hostile: fierce animals; a fierce look.
- fitchews — Plural form of fitchew.
- flitches — Plural form of flitch.
- forecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- 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.
- fuchsite — a bright green variety of muscovite having chromium in place of some of the aluminum.
- gamecast — the broadcast of a team sport game.
- gelastic — Pertaining to laughter, used in laughing, or to be the subject of laughter.
- genetics — Biology. the science of heredity, dealing with resemblances and differences of related organisms resulting from the interaction of their genes and the environment.
- get sick — fall ill, become unwell
- glitches — A sudden, usually temporary malfunction or irregularity of equipment.
- grutches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grutch.
- hatchels — Plural form of hatchel.
- hatchets — Plural form of hatchet.
- hectares — Plural form of hectare.
- hemisect — to cut into two equal parts; to bisect, especially along a medial longitudinal plane.
- hepatics — Plural form of hepatic.
- heretics — Plural form of heretic.
- hicksite — a member of the liberal body of Quakers in the U.S., who asserted the sufficiency of the Inner Light in religious life.
- hootches — a thatched hut of southeast Asia.
- hotcakes — Plural form of hotcake.
- housecat — a domesticated cat kept as a pet.
- 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.
- iceboats — Plural form of iceboat.
- icestone — a rare crystalline mineral also known as cryolite