5-letter words containing s, e, c
- decus — Digital Equipment Computer Users Society
- dices — (proscribed by some, rare) Plural form of dice, when
- duces — a leader or dictator.
- eacso — East African Common Services Organization
- ecash — money that is exchanged electronically over computer or telecommunications networks.
- echos — Plural form of echo.
- ecrus — very light brown in color, as raw silk, unbleached linen, etc.
- ecssl — Formerly APSE. An equation-oriented specification language for continuous simulations. The compiler outputs HYTRAN, which must be run on an analog processor.
- edsac — Electronic Discrete Sequential Automatic Computer
- emacs — Any implementation or reimplementation of Emacs.
- epics — Plural form of epic.
- escon — Enterprise Systems CONnectivity
- escot — to maintain or pay for
- estoc — a short stabbing sword
- estpc — A compiler from Estelle to C.
- execs — Plural form of exec.
- faces — Plural form of face.
- feces — waste matter discharged from the intestines through the anus; excrement.
- fices — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a small mongrel dog, especially one that is ill-tempered; cur; mutt.
- fyces — feist.
- gecos — GCOS
- hecks — Plural form of heck.
- ickes — Harold (Le Claire) [luh klair] /lə klɛər/ (Show IPA), 1874–1952, U.S. lawyer and statesman.
- ipsec — (networking, protocol, security) ("IP Secure"?) A protocol that provides security for transmission of sensitive information over unprotected networks such as the Internet. IPsec acts at the network layer, protecting and authenticating IP packets between participating devices ("peers"), such as Cisco routers.
- kecks — to retch; be nauseated.
- laces — Plural form of lace.
- lects — Plural form of lect.
- leics — Leicestershire
- luces — a pike, especially when fully grown.
- maces — a spice ground from the layer between a nutmeg shell and its outer husk, resembling nutmeg in flavor.
- mercs — Plural form of merc.
- mesic — of or relating to a meson; mesonic.
- misce — (in prescriptions) mix.
- necks — Plural form of neck.
- nices — a port in and the capital of Alpes-Maritimes, in SE France, on the Mediterranean: resort.
- oecus — (in an ancient Roman house) an apartment, especially a dining room, decorated with columns.
- pecos — a river flowing SE from N New Mexico through W Texas to the Rio Grande. 735 miles (1183 km) long.
- races — Cape, a cape at the SE extremity of Newfoundland.
- recks — to have care, concern, or regard (often followed by of, with, or a clause).
- saice — (in India) a groom; stable attendant.
- sauce — any preparation, usually liquid or semiliquid, eaten as a gravy or as a relish accompanying food.
- scale — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- scape — Botany. a leafless peduncle rising from the ground.
- scare — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- sceat — a silver Anglo-Saxon coin of the 7th and 8th centuries, sometimes including an amount of gold.
- scelp — to slap, smack, or strike (someone), especially on the buttocks; spank.
- scena — an extended operatic vocal solo, usually including an aria and a recitative.
- scend — to heave in a swell.
- scene — the place where some action or event occurs: He returned to the scene of the murder.
- scent — a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable: the scent of roses.