9-letter words containing esc
- esclavage — A type of chain or bead necklace.
- escoffier — (Georges) Auguste (oɡyst). 1846–1935, French chef at the Savoy Hotel, London (1890–99)
- escondido — city in S Calif., near San Diego: pop. 134,000
- escopette — a carbine
- escortage — the act of escorting
- escorting — Present participle of escort.
- escovitch — Alternative form of escoveitch.
- escribano — a clerk or scribe
- escrowing — Present participle of escrow.
- esculents — Plural form of esculent.
- evanesced — Simple past tense and past participle of evanesce.
- evanesces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of evanesce.
- firescape — to arrange the features of (a garden or other area of land) in a way that inhibits the spread of fire, for example by increasing the amount of open space and cultivating fire-resistant plants
- fivescore — (archaic) Hundred.
- fluoresce — to exhibit fluorescence.
- francesca — Piero della [pee-air-oh del-uh;; Italian pye-raw del-lah] /piˈɛər oʊ ˈdɛl ə;; Italian ˈpyɛ rɔ ˈdɛl lɑ/ (Show IPA), (Piero dei Franceschi) c1420–92, Italian painter.
- frescoing — Present participle of fresco.
- frondesce — To unfold leaves, as plants.
- gauchesco — of or relating to gauchos
- ignescent — emitting sparks of fire, as certain stones when struck with steel.
- in escrow — a contract, deed, bond, or other written agreement deposited with a third person, by whom it is to be delivered to the grantee or promisee on the fulfillment of some condition.
- intumesce — to swell up, as with heat; become tumid.
- kinescope — a cathode-ray tube with a fluorescent screen on which an image is reproduced by a directed beam of electrons.
- latescent — becoming latent
- limescale — A white, chalky deposit of calcium carbonate found in kettles, washing machines etc., especially in a hard water area.
- luminesce — to exhibit luminescence.
- lutescent — yellowish in colour
- mescalero — a member of a group of Apache Indians who originally inhabited northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S. east of the Rio Grande, have intermarried with the Chiricahua and Lipan, and are presently situated in New Mexico.
- mescaline — a white, water-soluble, crystalline powder, C 1 1 H 1 7 NO 3 , obtained from mescal buttons, that produces hallucinations.
- mescalism — addiction to mescal, an alcoholic spirit
- nescience — lack of knowledge; ignorance.
- ninescore — the product (180) of nine multiplied by twenty
- obsolesce — to be or become obsolescent.
- opalesced — Simple past tense and past participle of opalesce.
- opalesces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of opalesce.
- preschool — of, relating to, or intended for a child between infancy and school age: new methods of preschool education.
- prescient — having prescience, or knowledge of things or events before they exist or happen; having foresight: The prescient economist was one of the few to see the financial collapse coming.
- prescious — prescient
- prescored — to record the sound of (a motion picture) before filming.
- prescreen — to screen in advance; select before a more detailed selecting process.
- prescribe — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- prescript — prescribed.
- prescutum — the anterior dorsal sclerite of a thoracic segment of an insect.
- pubescent — arriving or arrived at puberty.
- quiescent — being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
- recalesce — to undergo recalescence
- redescend — to descend again
- redescent — the act, process, or fact of moving from a higher to a lower position. Synonyms: falling, sinking; fall, drop.
- rescinded — to abrogate; annul; revoke; repeal.
- romanesco — a variety of green cauliflower