10-letter words containing s, t, a, c
- psychopath — a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
- pulsatance — the angular frequency of a periodic motion
- pultaceous — resembling pap
- punctuates — to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
- put across — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- qabalistic — Alternative spelling of cabalistic.
- quadratics — a quadratic polynomial or equation.
- quadrisect — to divide (something) into four equal parts.
- quitclaims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quitclaim.
- quittances — Plural form of quittance.
- racetracks — Plural form of racetrack.
- raconteurs — Plural form of raconteur.
- raconteuse — a woman who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.
- rat cheese — inexpensive cheese, especially domestic cheddar.
- reaccustom — to familiarize by custom or use; habituate: to accustom oneself to cold weather.
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- reforecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- requiescat — a wish or prayer for the repose of the dead.
- resectable — able to be resected
- resistance — the act or power of resisting, opposing, or withstanding.
- respectant — aspectant.
- revanchist — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- rheostatic — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
- rheumatics — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rice blast — a disease of rice caused by the fungus Pyricularia oryae, characterized by elliptical leaf spots with reddish-brown margins, brownish lesions and neck rot of the fruiting panicles, and stunting of the plant.
- rickettsia — any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- ritschlian — of or relating to the theology of Albrecht Ritschl (1822–89), who developed a liberal Christian theology and maintained that religious faith is based on value judgments.
- root cause — origin
- royalistic — relating to a royalist
- rusticator — to go to the country.
- sabbatical — of or pertaining or appropriate to the Sabbath.
- sabretache — a leather case suspended from a cavalryman's saddle
- sac-a-lait — the white crappie. See under crappie.
- sacahuista — a North American flowering grass
- saccharate — a salt of saccharic acid.
- sacerdotal — of priests; priestly.
- sacramento — a state in the W United States, on the Pacific coast. 158,693 sq. mi. (411,015 sq. km). Capital: Sacramento. Abbreviation: CA (for use with zip code), Cal., Calif.
- sacrosanct — extremely sacred or inviolable: a sacrosanct chamber in the temple.
- safety car — life car.
- salicylate — a salt or ester of salicylic acid.
- salt chuck — the ocean.
- salt stick — a crusty bread roll sprinkled with salt crystals, made in the shape of a cylinder.
- saltcellar — a shaker or dish for salt.
- samothrace — a Greek island in the NE Aegean.
- sanctified — made holy; consecrated: sanctified wine.
- sanctifier — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- sanctimony — pretended, affected, or hypocritical religious devotion, righteousness, etc.
- sanctioned — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sanctitude — holiness; saintliness; sanctity.