8-letter words containing s, o, c, e
- lovesick — languishing with love: a lovesick adolescent.
- maculose — related to or characterized by having spots
- megacosm — (obsolete) A macrocosm.
- melodics — the branch of musical science concerned with the pitch and succession of tones.
- mercosur — a trading block composed of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela, with associate members Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru; superseded in 2008 by the Union of South American Nations (Unasur or Unasul), by uniting with the Andean Community
- mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
- mesolect — any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.
- mesozoic — noting or pertaining to an era occurring between 230 and 65 million years ago, characterized by the appearance of flowering plants and by the appearance and extinction of dinosaurs.
- microbes — Plural form of microbe.
- miscoded — to code mistakenly, as in data processing.
- molecast — the heap of earth excavated by a mole tunnelling underground
- monocles — Plural form of monocle.
- moochers — Plural form of moocher.
- moschate — having a musky smell.
- myocytes — Plural form of myocyte.
- myoscope — an instrument for observing muscular contraction.
- nacreous — of or relating to nacre.
- neckshot — a shot in the neck of an animal
- necropsy — the examination of a body after death; autopsy.
- necrosed — Simple past tense and past participle of necrose.
- necroses — death of a circumscribed portion of animal or plant tissue.
- necrosis — death of a circumscribed portion of animal or plant tissue.
- noctules — Plural form of noctule.
- nonesuch — a person or thing without equal; paragon.
- nosecone — Alternative spelling of nose cone.
- notecase — billfold.
- nucleons — Plural form of nucleon.
- oatcakes — Plural form of oatcake.
- obscured — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- obscurer — Comparative form of obscure.
- obscures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obscure.
- obstacle — something that obstructs or hinders progress.
- occludes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of occlude.
- occupies — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- ocherous — any of a class of natural earths, mixtures of hydrated oxide of iron with various earthy materials, ranging in color from pale yellow to orange and red, and used as pigments.
- ochlesis — any disease caused by overcrowding.
- ochreous — ocher.
- ockerism — the conduct or actions that are characteristic of an ocker
- octuples — Plural form of octuple.
- offences — Plural form of offence.
- officers — Plural form of officer.
- onscreen — As seen on a screen (as of television, film, or computer) rather than in real life.
- opalesce — to exhibit a play of colors like that of the opal.
- opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
- opuscule — a small or minor work.
- 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.
- oscinine — of or relating to the Oscines
- oscitate — To gape; to yawn.