9-letter words containing cen
- incentive — something that incites or tends to incite to action or greater effort, as a reward offered for increased productivity.
- indecency — the quality or condition of being indecent.
- innocence — the quality or state of being innocent; freedom from sin or moral wrong.
- innocency — innocence (defs 1–6).
- innocents — free from moral wrong; without sin; pure: innocent children.
- jobcentre — Alternative spelling of Jobcentre.
- larcenist — a person who commits larceny.
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of larceny.
- latescent — becoming latent
- licencees — a person, company, etc., to whom a license is granted or issued.
- licencing — license.
- licensees — Plural form of licensee.
- licensing — Grant a license to (someone or something) to permit the use of something or to allow an activity to take place.
- licensors — Plural form of licensor.
- licensure — the granting of licenses, especially to engage in professional practice.
- lucencies — shining.
- lutescent — yellowish in colour
- mercenary — working or acting merely for money or other reward; venal.
- millecent — a female given name.
- millicent — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “work” and “strong.”.
- mycenaean — of or relating to the ancient city of Mycenae.
- obscenely — offensive to morality or decency; indecent; depraved: obscene language.
- obscenity — the character or quality of being obscene; indecency; lewdness.
- oligocene — noting or pertaining to an epoch of the Tertiary Period, occurring from 40 to 25 million years ago.
- omniscent — Misspelling of omniscient All-knowing.
- paleocene — noting or pertaining to an epoch of the Tertiary Period, from 65 to 55 million years ago, and characterized by a proliferation of mammals.
- parcenary — joint heirship or coheirship; the undivided holding of land by two or more coheirs.
- percental — Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
- percenter — a person or thing that charges or pays a certain percentage, cooperates to a specified degree, etc. (used in combination): agents and other ten-percenters.
- placename — the name given to or held by a geographical location, as a town, city, village, etc.
- placental — Anatomy, Zoology. the organ in most mammals, formed in the lining of the uterus by the union of the uterine mucous membrane with the membranes of the fetus, that provides for the nourishment of the fetus and the elimination of its waste products.
- placentia — a town in S California.
- pleiocene — Pliocene
- precensor — to censor (a film, play, book, etc) before its publication
- precentor — a person who leads a church choir or congregation in singing.
- pubescent — arriving or arrived at puberty.
- quiescent — being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
- recension — an editorial revision of a literary work, especially on the basis of critical examination of the text and the sources used.
- redescend — to descend again
- redescent — the act, process, or fact of moving from a higher to a lower position. Synonyms: falling, sinking; fall, drop.
- relicense — to license again
- renascent — being reborn; springing again into being or vigor: a renascent interest in Henry James.
- reticence — the state of being reticent, or reserved, especially with regard to speaking freely; restraint: His natural reticence seemed to disappear under the influence of alcohol.
- reticency — the state of being reticent, or reserved, especially with regard to speaking freely; restraint: His natural reticence seemed to disappear under the influence of alcohol.
- rubescent — becoming red; blushing.
- rufescent — somewhat reddish; tinged with red; rufous.
- saracenic — History/Historical. a member of any of the nomadic tribes on the Syrian borders of the Roman Empire.
- scenarios — an outline of the plot of a dramatic work, giving particulars as to the scenes, characters, situations, etc.
- scenarist — a writer of motion-picture or television scenarios.
- scenarize — to make or create a scenario of something