9-letter words containing s, n, a, c
- asemantic — not semantic
- aspectant — (of birds, fish, and animals other than beasts of prey) face to face; respectant.
- assonance — the use of the same vowel sound with different consonants or the same consonant with different vowels in successive words or stressed syllables, as in a line of verse. Examples are time and light or mystery and mastery
- assurance — If you give someone an assurance that something is true or will happen, you say that it is definitely true or will definitely happen, in order to make them feel less worried.
- astrachan — a fur of young lambs, with lustrous, closely curled wool, from Astrakhan.
- asyndetic — (of a catalogue or index) without cross references
- audiences — the group of spectators at a public event; listeners or viewers collectively, as in attendance at a theater or concert: The audience was respectful of the speaker's opinion.
- auspicing — (AU) administration of a grant by one group on behalf of another.
- bacchants — Plural form of bacchant.
- backbends — Plural form of backbend.
- backbones — Plural form of backbone.
- backdowns — Plural form of backdown.
- backhands — Plural form of backhand.
- backlands — Plural form of backland.
- backswing — the movement of a club, bat, or racket backwards, away from the intended point of contact, in preparation for making a stroke
- bacterins — a vaccine prepared from killed bacteria.
- balancers — Plural form of balancer.
- balconies — Plural form of balcony.
- bar snack — a light quick meal, such as a sandwich or pie, served in a bar
- barnacles — nose pincers for controlling an unruly horse
- barrancas — Plural form of barranca.
- basicness — Quality or degree of being basic.
- basilican — basilic (def 2).
- basilicon — any of a variety of healing ointments applied to wounds in early medicine, commonly using lard or oil, resin, and wax
- blackness — Blackness is the state of being very dark.
- braincase — the part of the cranium that protects the brain
- brainsick — relating to or caused by insanity; crazy; mad
- c rations — tinned food formerly issued in packs to US soldiers
- c-spanner — a sickle-shaped spanner having a projection at the end of the curve, used for turning large narrow nuts that have an indentation into which the projection on the spanner fits
- cab stand — A cab stand is a place where taxis wait for passengers, for example, at an airport or outside a station.
- cabernets — Plural form of cabernet.
- cabochons — Plural form of cabochon.
- cabstands — Plural form of cabstand.
- caesarean — of or relating to any of the Caesars, esp Julius Caesar
- caesarian — of or relating to a Cesarean.
- caesionid — (zoology) Any member of the Caesionidae.
- cagelings — Plural form of cageling.
- cageyness — the quality of being cagey
- caithness — (until 1975) a county of NE Scotland, now part of Highland
- calcaneus — the largest tarsal bone, forming the heel in man
- calendars — Plural form of calendar.
- calenders — Plural form of calender.
- calescent — increasing in heat
- calfskins — Plural form of calfskin.
- call sign — A call sign is the letters and numbers which identify a person, vehicle, or organization that is broadcasting on the radio or sending messages by radio.
- callusing — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- calumnies — Plural form of calumny.
- calvinism — the theological system of John Calvin and his followers, characterized by emphasis on the doctrines of predestination, the irresistibility of grace, and justification by faith
- calvinist — Calvinist means belonging or relating to a strict Protestant church started by John Calvin.
- cameroons — former region in W Africa consisting of two trust territories, French Cameroons (in 1960 forming the republic of Cameroon ) and British Cameroons (in 1961 divided between Cameroon and Nigeria)