8-letter words containing t, e, s, c
- suitcase — a usually rectangular piece of luggage especially for carrying clothes while traveling.
- suricate — a small, burrowing South African carnivore, Suricata suricatta, of a grayish color with dark bands across the back, related to the mongooses and having social behavior similar to that of prairie dogs.
- switched — a hairpiece consisting of a bunch or tress of long hair or some substitute, fastened together at one end and worn by women to supplement their own hair.
- switchel — a drink of molasses and water, plus ginger or rum; treacle beer
- symantec — (company) Software manufacturer of utility and development applications for Windows and Macintosh platforms. Products include ACT!, Norton Utilities, Norton AntiVirus, Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh, Symantec Cafe.
- syndetic — serving to unite or connect; connective; copulative.
- synectic — the study of creative processes, especially as applied to the solution of problems by a group of diverse individuals.
- systemic — of or relating to a system.
- tachisme — action painting (def 1).
- tachiste — an artist who practises tachisme
- tackless — a short, sharp-pointed nail, usually with a flat, broad head.
- tactless — lacking tact; showing no tact; undiplomatic; offendingly blunt: a tactless remark.
- 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.
- technics — technique.
- tecumseh — 1768?–1813, American Indian chief of the Shawnee tribe.
- telecast — a television broadcast.
- telestic — relating to a hierophant
- terraces — unroofed tiers around a football pitch on which the spectators stand
- test act — any law requiring a person to belong to the established church of a country as a condition for holding public office.
- testicle — testis.
- the cash — a checkout counter
- the sack — dismissal from employment
- the sick — sick or ill people collectively
- theistic — the belief in one God as the creator and ruler of the universe, without rejection of revelation (distinguished from deism).
- thickest — having relatively great extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thin: a thick slice.
- thickset — set thickly or in close arrangement; dense: a thickset hedge.
- 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.
- tickseed — any of various plants having seeds resembling ticks, as a coreopsis or the bugseed.
- tieclasp — a clip, often ornamental, which holds a tie in place against a shirt
- 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
- trackies — loose-fitting trousers with elasticated cuffs, designed to be worn as part of a tracksuit
- transect — to cut across; dissect transversely.
- trenches — Fortification. a long, narrow excavation in the ground, the earth from which is thrown up in front to serve as a shelter from enemy fire or attack.
- trisemic — relating to a triseme
- 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.
- typecase — a compartmental tray for storing printer's type
- typecast — to cast (a performer) in a role that requires characteristics of physique, manner, personality, etc., similar to those possessed by the performer.
- unchaste — not chaste; not virtuous; not pure: an unchaste woman.
- unsecret — not secret
- unselect — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- unsocket — to remove from a socket
- veristic — the theory that rigid representation of truth and reality is essential to art and literature, and therefore the ugly and vulgar must be included.
- vertices — a plural of vertex.
- vesicant — producing a blister or blisters, as a medicinal substance; vesicating.