8-letter words containing s, e, r, i, c
- musicker — a musician
- necrosis — death of a circumscribed portion of animal or plant tissue.
- numerics — The field of numerically-controlled engineering.
- ockerism — the conduct or actions that are characteristic of an ocker
- officers — Plural form of officer.
- orchesis — the art of dance
- orchises — Plural form of orchis.
- orifices — an opening or aperture, as of a tube or pipe; a mouthlike opening or hole; mouth; vent.
- outcries — Plural form of outcry.
- oversick — too sick
- patrices — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- pericles — c495–429 b.c, Athenian statesman.
- perisarc — the horny or chitinous outer case or covering protecting the soft parts of hydrozoans.
- persicot — a sweet beverage that is made from the stones of apricots or peaches that are soaked or pulverized in distilled liquid or alcohol
- pictures — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- piecrust — the crust or shell of a pie.
- pinchers — a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of).
- pinscher — one of a group of related dogs including the Doberman pinscher, miniature pinscher, and affenpinscher.
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- precious — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- precised — a concise summary.
- prescind — to separate or single out in thought; abstract.
- preslice — to slice in advance
- princeps — first edition.
- princess — a nonreigning female member of a royal family.
- racemism — (of a compound) the state of being optically inactive and separable into two other substances of the same chemical composition as the original substance, one of which is dextrorotatory and the other levorotatory, as racemic acid.
- rachises — Plural form of rachis.
- raciness — slightly improper or indelicate; suggestive; risqué.
- receipts — a written acknowledgment of having received, or taken into one's possession, a specified amount of money, goods, etc.
- receives — to take into one's possession (something offered or delivered): to receive many gifts.
- recision — an act of canceling or voiding; cancellation.
- rectitis — an inflammation of the rectum
- rescript — a written answer, as of a Roman emperor or a pope, to a query or petition in writing.
- resorcin — a white, needlelike, water-soluble solid, C 6 H 6 O 2 , a benzene derivative originally obtained from certain resins, now usually synthesized: used chiefly in making dyes, as a reagent, in tanning, in the synthesis of certain resins, and in medicine in treating certain skin conditions; meta-dihydroxybenzene.
- resplice — to join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands.
- restitch — one complete movement of a threaded needle through a fabric or material such as to leave behind it a single loop or portion of thread, as in sewing, embroidery, or the surgical closing of wounds.
- restrict — to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
- richesse — richness or wealth
- richness — having wealth or great possessions; abundantly supplied with resources, means, or funds; wealthy: a rich man; a rich nation.
- sarcinae — any of several spherical, saprophytic bacteria of the genus Sarcina, having a cuboidal cell arrangement.
- scaliger — Joseph Justus [juhs-tuh s] /ˈdʒʌs təs/ (Show IPA), 1540–1609, French scholar and critic.
- scariest — causing fright or alarm.
- scenario — an outline of the plot of a dramatic work, giving particulars as to the scenes, characters, situations, etc.
- schiller — Ferdinand Canning Scott [kan-ing] /ˈkæn ɪŋ/ (Show IPA), 1864–1937, English philosopher in the U.S.
- schirmer — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1829–93, born in Germany, and his sons Rudolph Edward, 1859–1919, and Gustave, 1864–1907, U.S. music publishers.
- schwerin — a state in NE Germany. 8842 sq. mi. (22,900 sq. km). Capital: Schwerin.
- scienter — a mental state in which one has knowledge that one’s action, statement, etc., is wrong, deceptive, or illegal: often used as a standard of guilt: The court found that the company had the requisite scienter for securities fraud.
- scissure — a longitudinal cleft or opening.
- sciurine — of or relating to the squirrels and allied rodents of the family Sciuridae.
- sclereid — a short, thickened plant cell of the sclerenchyma, typically containing branched pits.