9-letter words containing cen
- centumvir — one of a body of judges responsible for presiding over civil court cases
- centurial — of or relating to a Roman century
- centuried — existing for an indefinite number of centuries.
- centuries — Plural form of century.
- centurion — A centurion was an officer in the Roman army.
- centurium — A rejected name for fermium.
- concensus — Misspelling of consensus.
- concenter — to bring or come to a common center; concentrate or converge
- concentre — to converge or cause to converge on a common centre; concentrate
- concentus — a concent
- conducent — Conducive; tending.
- conticent — silent
- coparceny — (legal) An equal share of an inheritance.
- crescence — (obsolete) increase; enlargement.
- crescendo — A crescendo is a noise that gets louder and louder. Some people also use crescendo to refer to the point when a noise is at its loudest.
- crescents — Plural form of crescent.
- damascene — to ornament (metal, esp steel) by etching or by inlaying, usually with gold or silver
- daycentre — a building used for daycare or other welfare services
- decencies — standards of behaviour considered correct by polite society; proprieties
- decennary — decade (sense 2)
- decennial — lasting for ten years
- decennium — decade (sense 2)
- decenters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decenter.
- decentral — Not central; decentralized.
- decentred — to put out of center.
- dehiscent — (of fruits, anthers, etc) opening spontaneously to release seeds or pollen
- delicense — formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- demoscene — a computer art subculture whose members produce non-interactive multimedia presentations in order to compete artistically
- demulcent — soothing; mollifying
- depascent — Consuming.
- descended — A person who is descended from someone who lived a long time ago is directly related to them.
- descender — a person or thing that descends
- dicentras — Plural form of dicentra.
- dicentric — an abnormal chromosome with two centromeres
- douceness — the quality or characteristic of being douce
- eccentric — deviating from the recognized or customary character, practice, etc.; irregular; erratic; peculiar; odd: eccentric conduct; an eccentric person.
- epicenter — The point on the earth's surface vertically above the focus of an earthquake.
- epicentra — epicentres
- epicentre — (seismology) The point on the land or water surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
- excentric — Not centrally placed or not having its axis or other part placed centrally.
- fatiscent — having cracks or chinks
- ferrocene — Also called dicyclopentadienyliron. an orange, crystalline, water-insoluble coordination compound, (C 5 H 5) 2 Fe, having a camphorlike odor: used chiefly as an antiknock agent for gasoline and as a catalyst. Compare metallocene.
- hacendado — the owner of a hacienda.
- half cent — a bronze coin of the U.S., equal to one-half cent, issued at various periods between 1793 and 1857.
- ignescent — emitting sparks of fire, as certain stones when struck with steel.
- incendive — Able to ignite, or cause ignition.
- incensing — Present participle of incense.
- incensive — Tending to excite or provoke; inflammatory.
- incensory — Thurible, censer.
- incenting — to give incentives to: The government should incentivize the private sector to create jobs.