9-letter words containing s, t, a, y, c
- cystogram — A diagnostic image produced by cystography.
- cytoplasm — the protoplasm of a cell contained within the cell membrane but excluding the nucleus: contains organelles, vesicles, and other inclusions
- cytoplast — the intact cytoplasm of a single cell
- cytosmear — (cytology) A sample of cells, in the form of a smear on a microscope slide, that has been stained ready for diagnostic examination.
- cytotaxis — movement of cells due to external stimulation
- dactylics — Plural form of dactylic.
- dactylist — someone who writes poetry in dactyls
- decastyle — a portico consisting of ten columns
- dicastery — A term used by the Vatican corresponding to ministry or department as subdivisions of the papal Curia, referring to the administrative departments of the Vatican City State, as well as strictly ecclesiastical departments; more often termed congregation.
- dyscratic — having or suffering from dyscrasia
- ecdysiast — stripper (def 3).
- eucalypts — Plural form of eucalypt.
- faculty's — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- fiscality — Fiscal policy or considerations.
- gymnastic — of or relating to physical exercises that develop and demonstrate strength, balance, and agility, especially such exercises performed mostly on special equipment.
- hatchways — Plural form of hatchway.
- haystacks — Plural form of haystack.
- hesitancy — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hesychast — one of a sect of mystics that originated in the 14th century among the monks on Mt. Athos, Greece.
- hyacinths — Plural form of hyacinth.
- hydrocast — a process in which water is collected at various depths in a device with bottles clamped together, providing data on differing water characteristics.
- hypocaust — a hollow space or system of channels in the floor or walls of some ancient Roman buildings that provided a central heating system by receiving and distributing the heat from a furnace.
- insectary — a laboratory for the study of live insects, their life histories, effects on plants, reaction to insecticides, etc.
- intestacy — the state or fact of being intestate at death.
- jackstays — Plural form of jackstay.
- lace stay — that part of an Oxford shoe into which eyelets and laces are inserted.
- latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
- macrocyst — a large cyst or spore case, especially the encysted, resting plasmodium of a slime mold.
- mastocyte — Mast cell.
- metacryst — a crystal formed by recrystallization of minerals in a metamorphic rock.
- myristica — (botany) Any member of the genus Myristica of nutmegs.
- nyctalops — a person affected by nyctalopia
- nystagmic — Exhibiting or pertaining to nystagmus (involuntary eye movement).
- obstinacy — the quality or state of being obstinate; stubbornness.
- octastyle — having eight columns in the front, as a temple or portico.
- oscitancy — yawning, as with drowsiness; gaping.
- piscatory — of or relating to fishermen or fishing: a piscatory treaty.
- plasticky — made of or resembling plastic
- pyroclast — a piece of lava ejected from a volcano
- rascality — rascally or knavish character or conduct.
- sacrality — sacredness
- salcantay — a mountain in the Andes in S central Peru: highest peak in the Cordillera Vilcabamba. 20,574 feet (6271 meters).
- sanctuary — a sacred or holy place.
- satyrical — Classical Mythology. one of a class of woodland deities, attendant on Bacchus, represented as part human, part horse, and sometimes part goat and noted for riotousness and lasciviousness.
- satyricon — a satirical novel, interspersed with verse, written in the 1st century a.d. by Petronius, extant in fragments.
- scatology — the study of or preoccupation with excrement or obscenity.
- schmaltzy — of, relating to, or characterized by schmaltz.
- secretary — a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.: the secretary of the Linguistic Society of America.
- sequacity — following with smooth or logical regularity.
- sociality — social nature or tendencies as shown in the assembling of individuals in communities.