8-letter words containing s, e, l, c
- subscale — a scale within a scale
- suchlike — of any such kind; similar.
- suckhole — a sycophant; toady
- surplice — a loose-fitting, broad-sleeved white vestment, worn over the cassock by clergy and choristers.
- swelchie — the tidal race in the Pentland Firth
- swelinck — Jan Pieters [yahn pee-tuh rs] /yɑn ˈpi tərs/ (Show IPA), or Jan Pieterszoon [yahn pee-tuh r-sohn] /yɑn ˈpi tərˌsoʊn/ (Show IPA), 1562–1621, Dutch organist and composer.
- switchel — a drink of molasses and water, plus ginger or rum; treacle beer
- symploce — the simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe.
- syncline — a synclinal fold.
- tackless — a short, sharp-pointed nail, usually with a flat, broad head.
- tactless — lacking tact; showing no tact; undiplomatic; offendingly blunt: a tactless remark.
- telecast — a television broadcast.
- telestic — relating to a hierophant
- testicle — testis.
- tieclasp — a clip, often ornamental, which holds a tie in place against a shirt
- to scale — in correct proportion, at actual size
- toolcase — a case in which tools are kept
- ulcerous — of the nature of an ulcer; characterized by the formation of ulcers.
- unclosed — not closed: an unclosed door.
- unscaled — noting armor having imbricated metal plates sewn to a flexible backing.
- unselect — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- unsliced — not sliced
- unsluice — to provide an opening for (something)
- up-close — intimate, close-up
- urceolus — a plant organ shaped like an urn
- vaucluse — a department in SE France. 1382 sq. mi. (3580 sq. km). Capital: Avignon.
- versicle — a little verse.
- viceless — free from vices.
- visceral — of or relating to the viscera.
- vocalese — a style of jazz singing
- vocalise — a musical composition consisting of the singing of melody with vowel sounds or nonsense syllables rather than text, as for special effect in classical compositions, in polyphonic jazz singing by special groups, or in virtuoso vocal exercises.
- wedlocks — Plural form of wedlock.
- weichsel — a river in Poland, flowing N from the Carpathian Mountains past Warsaw into the Baltic near Danzig. About 650 miles (1050 km) long.
- welcomes — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- wickless — a bundle or loose twist or braid of soft threads, or a woven strip or tube, as of cotton or asbestos, which in a candle, lamp, oil stove, cigarette lighter, or the like, serves to draw up the melted tallow or wax or the oil or other flammable liquid to be burned.