11-letter words containing esc
- lapidescent — in the process of changing into stone
- leschetizky — Theodor [tey-uh-dawr,, -dohr,, thee-] /ˈteɪ əˌdɔr,, -ˌdoʊr,, ˈθi-/ (Show IPA), 1830–1915, Polish pianist and composer.
- liquescency — The quality or state of being liquescent.
- luminescent — the emission of light not caused by incandescence and occurring at a temperature below that of incandescent bodies.
- luminescing — Present participle of luminesce.
- marcescence — withering but not falling off, as a part of a plant.
- marcescible — prone to fade or decay
- mescal bean — an evergreen shrub or small tree, Sophora secundiflora, of the legume family, of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, having clusters of fragrant, violet-blue flowers and pods containing highly poisonous, bright red seeds.
- middlescent — the middle-age period of life, especially when considered a difficult time of self-doubt and readjustment.
- misdescribe — Describe inaccurately or misleadingly.
- nigrescence — tending toward black; blackish.
- nondescript — of no recognized, definite, or particular type or kind: a nondescript novel; a nondescript color.
- obsolescent — becoming obsolete; passing out of use, as a word: an obsolescent term.
- obsolescing — to be or become obsolescent.
- opalescence — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
- pallescence — the condition of being pallescent
- pearlescent — having an iridescent luster resembling that of pearl; nacreous: healthy skin with a pearlescent glow.
- pescatarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but includes fish and seafood.
- pescetarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but includes fish and seafood.
- preschedule — taking place ahead of schedule
- preschooler — a child below the official school starting age, usually a child up to age five.
- prescindent — tending to prescind
- prescission — the action of prescinding
- putrescence — becoming putrid; undergoing putrefaction.
- putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- quiescently — being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
- re-escalate — to escalate again
- recalescent — a brightening exhibited by cooling iron as latent heat of transformation is liberated.
- rejuvenesce — to make or become youthful or restored to vitality
- rescindment — to abrogate; annul; revoke; repeal.
- rescissible — able to be rescinded.
- rescription — a reply or answering of a letter
- revivescent — reviving
- smokescreen — If something that you do or say is a smokescreen, it is intended to hide the truth about your activities or intentions.
- telescience — the investigation of remotely controlled scientific experiments
- telescoping — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- telescopist — someone who is adept with a telescope
- telescopium — an inconspicuous constellation in the S hemisphere, close to Sagittarius and Ara
- torpescence — the state or quality of being torpescent or torpid
- true fresco — fresco (def 1).
- true-fresco — fresco (def 1).
- turgescence — becoming swollen; swelling.
- undescended — (of a testicle) not having descended from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum.
- undescribed — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- unrescinded — not rescinded, cancelled, or repealed
- viridescent — slightly green; greenish.
- virilescent — possessing typically male characteristics
- vitrescence — becoming glass.
- vitrescible — capable of being formed into or of becoming glass; vitrifiable.