6-letter words containing s, e, c
- incuse — hammered or stamped in, as a figure on a coin.
- insect — any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings.
- itches — Plural form of itch.
- jocose — given to or characterized by joking; jesting; humorous; playful: a jocose and amusing manner.
- juices — Plural form of juice.
- kecksy — a hollow stalk of a plant such as cow parsley
- kosice — a city in SE Slovakia.
- laches — failure to do something at the proper time, especially such delay as will bar a party from bringing a legal proceeding.
- lances — Plural form of lance.
- leches — to behave like a lecher (often followed by for or after).
- lesbic — relating to lesbians
- lesche — an arcade or other public place in ancient Greece.
- leucas — Levkas.
- macers — Plural form of macer.
- maches — corn salad.
- mascle — a lozenge represented as having a lozenge-shaped hole at the center.
- meccas — Plural form of mecca.
- mecism — abnormal prolongation of one or more parts of the body.
- medics — Plural form of medic.
- meeces — (jargon) /mees'*z/ (TMRC) Occasional furry visitors who are not urchins; that is, mice. This may no longer be in live use. According to ESR it derives from the refrain of the early-1960s cartoon character Mr. Jinx: "I hate meeces to *pieces*!"
- mensch — a decent, upright, mature, and responsible person.
- mescal — an intoxicating beverage distilled from the fermented juice of certain species of agave.
- metics — Plural form of metic.
- mice's — any of numerous small Old World rodents of the family Muridae, especially of the genus Mus, introduced widely in other parts of the world.
- minces — Plural form of mince.
- miscue — a stroke in which the cue fails to make solid contact with the cue ball.
- muches — great in quantity, measure, or degree: too much cake.
- muscle — a tissue composed of cells or fibers, the contraction of which produces movement in the body.
- mycose — Trehalose.
- naches — Pride or gratification, especially at the achievements of one’s children.
- neches — a river in E Texas, flowing S and SE to Sabine Lake. 416 miles (669 km) long.
- necros — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of necro.
- nicest — pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit.
- niches — Plural form of niche.
- nieces — a daughter of a person's brother or sister.
- nueces — a river in S Texas, flowing SE to Corpus Christi Bay, on the Gulf of Mexico. 338 miles (545 km) long.
- oceans — Plural form of ocean.
- octets — Plural form of octet.
- oecist — a person who colonizes, particularly in Ancient Greece
- oncers — Plural form of oncer.
- oncest — at one time in the past; formerly: I was a farmer once; a once powerful nation.
- oscine — of, belonging to, or pertaining to the suborder Oscines, of the order Passeriformes, comprising the songbirds that have highly developed vocal organs.
- oscule — Obsolete form of osculum.
- ouches — a clasp, buckle, or brooch, especially one worn for ornament.
- ounces — Plural form of ounce.
- parsec — a unit of distance equal to that required to cause a heliocentric parallax of one second of an arc, equivalent to 206,265 times the distance from the earth to the sun, or 3.26 light-years.
- pesach — Passover (def 1).
- pieces — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- pisces — zodiac sign: Fishes
- places — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.