8-letter words containing s, o, c, e
- stuccoed — an exterior finish for masonry or frame walls, usually composed of cement, sand, and hydrated lime mixed with water and laid on wet.
- sub voce — (used as a direction to a reference) under the specified word. Abbreviation: s.v.
- subcover — a set of subsets of a cover of a given set that also is a cover of the set.
- subepoch — an epoch or time period within another epoch or time period
- suckhole — a sycophant; toady
- sunchoke — Jerusalem artichoke (def 2).
- supercop — an exceptionally capable or powerful police officer
- supercow — a dairy cow that produces a very high milk yield as a result of selective breeding or genetic modification
- sycamore — Also called buttonwood. any of several North American plane trees, especially Platanus occidentalis, having shallowly lobed ovate leaves, globular seed heads, and wood valued as timber.
- symploce — the simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe.
- te score — Tertiary Entrance score: a score based on a pupil's performance in secondary school that determines his or her prospects of gaining entrance to tertiary educational institutions
- tea cosy — A tea cosy is a soft knitted or fabric cover which you put over a teapot in order to keep the tea hot.
- thoraces — Anatomy. the part of the trunk in humans and higher vertebrates between the neck and the abdomen, containing the cavity, enclosed by the ribs, sternum, and certain vertebrae, in which the heart, lungs, etc., are situated; chest.
- to scale — in correct proportion, at actual size
- tochises — tokus.
- toiseach — an ancient Celtic nobleman
- tonetics — the phonetic study of tone in language.
- toolcase — a case in which tools are kept
- topscore — to be the highest scorer in a sports match or competition
- troches' — a small tablet or lozenge, usually a circular one, made of medicinal substance worked into a paste with sugar and mucilage or the like, and dried.
- ulcerous — of the nature of an ulcer; characterized by the formation of ulcers.
- unchosen — a past participle of choose.
- unclosed — not closed: an unclosed door.
- unsocket — to remove from a socket
- up-close — intimate, close-up
- urceolus — a plant organ shaped like an urn
- varicose — abnormally or unusually enlarged or swollen: a varicose vein.
- 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.
- vortices — a plural of vortex.
- wedlocks — Plural form of wedlock.
- welcomes — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.