9-letter words containing s, e, l, c, t
- faculties — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- falconets — Plural form of falconet.
- fletchers — Plural form of fletcher.
- fractiles — Plural form of fractile.
- galactose — a white, crystalline, water-soluble hexose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , obtained in its dextrorotatory form from milk sugar by hydrolysis and in its levorotatory form from mucilages.
- glaciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glaciate.
- goldcrest — a Eurasian kinglet, Regulus regulus, having a bright yellow patch on the top of the head.
- hillcrest — The crest of a hill.
- idiolects — Plural form of idiolect.
- inelastic — not elastic; lacking flexibility or resilience; unyielding.
- insectile — pertaining to or like an insect.
- isolectin — Any of a number of closely related lectins that are difficult to separate, and act together.
- italicise — to print in italic type.
- jacksmelt — a large silversides, Atherinopsis californiensis, found along the coast of California, that grows to a length of 22 inches (55 cm).
- lace stay — that part of an Oxford shoe into which eyelets and laces are inserted.
- lacerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lacerate.
- lacertids — Plural form of lacertid.
- lactulose — (organic compound) A disaccharide of galactose and fructose formed when milk is heated.
- lancaster — the English royal family that reigned 1399–1461, descended from John of Gaunt (Duke of Lancaster), and that included Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI. Compare York (def 1).
- lancelets — Plural form of lancelet.
- larcenist — a person who commits larceny.
- latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
- latencies — Plural form of latency.
- latescent — becoming latent
- leachates — Plural form of leachate.
- lecturers — Plural form of lecturer.
- leicester — 1st Earl of, Robert Dudley.
- lenticels — Plural form of lenticel.
- leucistic — having reduced pigmentation in the skin but normally coloured eyes
- leviticus — the third book of the Bible, containing laws relating to the priests and Levites and to the forms of Jewish ceremonial observance. Abbreviation: Lev.
- lichenist — a person who studies lichenology
- licitness — The property of being licit, legalness, appropriateness.
- listicles — Plural form of listicle.
- livestock — the horses, cattle, sheep, and other useful animals kept or raised on a farm or ranch.
- locatives — Plural form of locative.
- lock step — a way of marching in such close file that the corresponding legs of the marchers must keep step precisely
- lucretius — (Titus Lucretius Carus) 97?–54 b.c, Roman poet and philosopher.
- lutescent — yellowish in colour
- maculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maculate.
- maledicts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maledict.
- masculate — (obsolete, transitive) To make strong.
- mast cell — a large granular cell, common in connective tissue, that produces heparin, histamine, and serotonin.
- matchless — having no equal; peerless; unequaled; incomparable: matchless courage.
- mcalester — a city in E Oklahoma.
- metaclass — (programming) The class of a class in an object-oriented programming language. A metaclass is a class whose instances are themselves classes. Typically there will only be one metaclass, called "Class" or similar, which is the class of all classes including itself. In some languages there will be no metaclass. The idea of a metaclass is closely associated with introspection - the ability of a program to access the structure and logic of itself or other programs.
- mislocate — to misplace.
- moschatel — a small plant, Adoxa moschatellina, having greenish or yellowish flowers with a musky odor.
- muscatels — Plural form of muscatel.
- newcastle — 1st Duke of, Pelham-Holles, Thomas.
- nucleates — Plural form of nucleate.