9-letter words containing u, n, s, c, e
- quickness — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- quiescent — being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
- quiesence — Misspelling of quiescence.
- reclusion — the condition or life of a recluse.
- reconsult — to consult (someone or something) again
- recursion — the process of defining a function or calculating a number by the repeated application of an algorithm.
- recusancy — the state of being recusant.
- rubescent — becoming red; blushing.
- rufescent — somewhat reddish; tinged with red; rufous.
- run close — to compete closely with; present a serious challenge to
- saliaunce — an onslaught
- sauciness — impertinent; insolent: a saucy remark; a saucy child.
- say uncle — a brother of one's father or mother.
- schnauzer — one of a German breed of sturdy medium-sized dogs having a tight, wiry, pepper-and-salt or pure black coat, bristly eyebrows and beardlike whiskers, and a docked tail, used originally as a ratter and a guard dog and later used in police work.
- scoundrel — an unprincipled, dishonorable person; villain.
- screw nut — a nut threaded to receive a screw.
- scrounger — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- scrunched — to crunch, crush, or crumple.
- scrunchie — an elastic band covered with gathered fabric, used to fasten the hair, as in a ponytail.
- scuncheon — sconcheon.
- scundered — embarrassed
- scungille — the meat of a mollusc or conch, eaten as a delicacy
- scunnered — an irrational dislike; loathing: She took a scunner to him.
- scutcheon — escutcheon.
- secluding — to place in or withdraw into solitude; remove from social contact and activity, etc.
- seclusion — an act of secluding: the seclusion of unruly students.
- secundine — the inner integument of an ovule.
- securance — the act or process of securing
- securitan — a person believing they are secure
- seduction — an act or instance of seducing, especially sexually.
- semuncial — of or pertaining to a semuncia or to half an ounce
- sequencer — a device for the automatic determination or regulation of a sequence.
- sicknurse — someone who nurses a sick person
- siphuncle — (in a nautilus) the connecting tube that passes from the end of the body through all of the septa to the innermost chamber.
- spleuchan — a small pouch, especially for carrying tobacco or money.
- squinched — to contort (the features) or squint.
- stauncher — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- stenchful — malodorous; foul-smelling
- subagency — an organization, company, or bureau that provides some service for another: a welfare agency.
- subcenter — a secondary or subordinate center, as in the location of a business.
- subcentre — a secondary centre
- subdeacon — a member of the clerical order next below that of deacon.
- subincise — to perform a subincision
- subjacent — situated or occurring underneath or below; underlying.
- suboscine — of or relating to birds of the suborder Suboscines, of the order Passeriformes, comprising the supposedly more primitive members of the order, with less well developed vocal organs than the oscine birds.
- substance — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- succedent — following or succeeding; subsequent.
- succentor — a precentor's deputy.
- succinate — a salt or ester of succinic acid.
- succinite — Baltic or 'true' amber, so called because of the succinic acid in the fossil resin: often incorrectly applied to fossilized resin (amber) generally