9-letter words containing s, e, r, i, c
- insectary — a laboratory for the study of live insects, their life histories, effects on plants, reaction to insecticides, etc.
- inservice — taking place while one is employed: an in-service training program.
- insincere — not sincere; not honest in the expression of actual feeling; hypocritical.
- inspecter — Archaic form of inspector.
- inspector — a person who inspects.
- insurance — the act, system, or business of providing financial protection for property, life, health, etc, against specified contingencies, such as death, loss, or damage, and involving payment of regular premiums in return for a policy guaranteeing such protection
- interacts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interact.
- intercoms — Plural form of intercom.
- intersect — to cut or divide by passing through or across: The highway intersects the town.
- irascible — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- irenicism — the promotion and support of peace and conciliation
- isenergic — denoting equal energy
- isochrone — a line, as on a map, connecting all points having some property simultaneously, as in having the same delay in receiving a radio signal from a given source or requiring the same time to be reached by available transportation from a given center.
- isocrates — 436–338 b.c, Athenian orator.
- isometric — of, relating to, or having equality of measure.
- isosteric — Chemistry. having the same number of valence electrons in the same configuration but differing in the kinds and numbers of atoms.
- kerchiefs — Plural form of kerchief.
- lacertids — Plural form of lacertid.
- larcenist — a person who commits larceny.
- laserdisc — A disk resembling a larger CD but able to store video, now generally replaced by the DVD.
- leicester — 1st Earl of, Robert Dudley.
- licensors — Plural form of licensor.
- licensure — the granting of licenses, especially to engage in professional practice.
- lickerish — fond of and eager for choice food.
- limericks — Plural form of limerick.
- lucretius — (Titus Lucretius Carus) 97?–54 b.c, Roman poet and philosopher.
- lyricised — to write lyrics.
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- marcasite — Also called white iron pyrites. a common mineral, iron disulfide, FeS 2 , chemically similar to pyrite but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
- masoretic — of or relating to the Masorah or the Masoretes.
- mavericks — Plural form of maverick.
- mediocris — (of a cumulus cloud) of medium height and often lacking a distinctive summit.
- merciless — without mercy; having or showing no mercy; pitiless; cruel: a merciless critic.
- mercurius — (Mercurius) died a.d. 535, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 533–535.
- meroistic — (of an ovary) producing yolk and ova
- mestrovic — Ivan [ahy-vuh n Serbo-Croatian. ee-vahn] /ˈaɪ vən Serbo-Croatian. ˈi vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1883–1962, Yugoslav sculptor, in the U.S. after 1946.
- metricise — study metre of poetry
- metricism — the study of metrics
- microdose — (medicine) A very low dose (especially of radiation therapy).
- micromesh — a very fine mesh
- micronise — (British) To reduce in size often to micrometer scale.
- microserf — (jargon) Wired magazine's term for a Microsoft employee.
- microsite — (Internet) A self-contained page or group of pages meant to supplement a larger website.
- microsome — a small inclusion, consisting of ribosomes and fragments of the endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria, in the cytoplasm of a cell.
- midcourse — the middle of a course.
- millraces — (archaic) Plural form of millrace.
- mischarge — (legal or, finance) To charge wrongly.
- miscreant — depraved, villainous, or base.
- miscreate — miscreated.
- miscredit — (transitive) To discredit.