9-letter words containing s, e, c, t
- artifices — Plural form of artifice.
- ascendant — proceeding upwards; rising
- ascendent — a position of dominance or controlling influence: possession of power, superiority, or preeminence: With his rivals in the ascendant, he soon lost his position.
- ascerbate — Misspelling of acerbate.
- ascertain — If you ascertain the truth about something, you find out what it is, especially by making a deliberate effort to do so.
- ascetical — a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
- ascidiate — of or relating to the tunicate molluscs of the genus Ascidium
- ascorbate — a salt of ascorbic acid
- asemantic — not semantic
- aspectant — (of birds, fish, and animals other than beasts of prey) face to face; respectant.
- aspectual — of or relating to grammatical aspect
- associate — If you associate someone or something with another thing, the two are connected in your mind.
- astricted — Simple past tense and past participle of astrict.
- astrocyte — any of the star-shaped cells in the tissue supporting the brain and spinal cord (neuroglia)
- asyndetic — (of a catalogue or index) without cross references
- at source — at the point of origin
- atheistic — Atheistic means connected with or holding the belief that there is no God.
- athetosic — relating to or characterized by athetosis
- athletics — Athletics refers to track and field sports such as running, the high jump, and the javelin.
- attackers — Plural form of attacker.
- auspicate — to begin or inaugurate with a ceremony intended to bring good fortune
- autecious — autoecious
- autoecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- autoscope — An optical instrument for examining one's own eye.
- awestruck — If someone is awestruck, they are very impressed and amazed by something.
- back rest — a support for the back of something
- back seat — a seat at the back, esp of a vehicle
- backbeats — Plural form of backbeat.
- backbites — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backbite.
- backdates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backdate.
- backrests — Plural form of backrest.
- backseats — Plural form of backseat.
- backstage — In a theatre, backstage refers to the areas behind the stage.
- backswept — slanting backwards
- bacterias — (US) Plural form of bacteria.
- bacterins — a vaccine prepared from killed bacteria.
- base coat — the first coat of paint applied to a prepared surface
- basestock — Refined petroleum oil with no additives.
- bechstein — Karl. 1826–1900, German piano maker; founder (1853) of the Bechstein company of piano manufacturers in Berlin
- beechmast — collective term for beech nuts, esp when lying on the ground
- beechnuts — Plural form of beechnut.
- benchrest — a tablelike support for a target rifle used in target practice.
- bescatter — to scatter or strew about
- best-case — being the best that can possibly be expected; optimal
- bioethics — the study of ethical problems arising from biological research and its applications in such fields as organ transplantation, genetic engineering, or artificial insemination
- bisection — to cut or divide into two equal or nearly equal parts.
- bisectrix — the bisector of the angle between the optic axes of a crystal
- bisulcate — marked by two grooves
- bit slice — (of central processing units) able to be built up in sections to form complete central processing units with various word lengths
- bitchfest — a malicious and spiteful discussion of people, events, etc