10-letter words containing sc
- conscripts — Plural form of conscript.
- convalesce — If you are convalescing, you are resting and getting your health back after an illness or operation.
- corkscrews — Plural form of corkscrew.
- corkscrewy — Resembling the worm of a corkscrew in shape.
- corpuscles — Plural form of corpuscle.
- corpuscule — Biology. an unattached cell, especially of a kind that floats freely, as a blood or lymph cell.
- corruscate — Dated form of coruscate.
- coruscated — Simple past tense and past participle of coruscate.
- crepuscule — twilight; dusk
- crescendos — Plural form of crescendo.
- crescented — having the shape of a crescent
- crescentic — a shape resembling a segment of a ring tapering to points at the ends.
- crescively — in a crescive or increasing manner
- crisscross — to move or cause to move in a crosswise pattern
- crosscheck — to verify (a fact, report, etc) by considering conflicting opinions or consulting other sources
- crossclaim — a secondary claim brought by a defendant in a lawsuit on a co-defendant
- crosscourt — (in racket games) directed to the diagonally opposite side of the court.
- cryoscopes — Plural form of cryoscope.
- cryoscopic — Chemistry. a technique for determining the molecular weight of a substance by dissolving it and measuring the freezing point of the solution.
- ct scanner — computerized tomography scanner: an X-ray machine that can produce stereographic images
- culdoscope — an endoscope used in a medical examination of the ovary, uterus, etc., inserted through the upper vaginal wall into the pelvic cavity
- culdoscopy — Endoscopy of the female pelvic organs by way of the vagina.
- cystoscope — a slender tubular medical instrument for examining the interior of the urethra and urinary bladder
- cystoscopy — examination of the urinary bladder or tract with the aid of a cystoscope
- damasceene — to decorate or engrave metal with wavy lines and patterns
- damascened — of or relating to the city of Damascus.
- damascenes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of damascene.
- damascenus — Johannes [joh-han-eez,, -is] /dʒoʊˈhæn iz,, -ɪs/ (Show IPA), John of Damascus, Saint.
- day school — A day school is a school where the students go home every evening and do not live at the school. Compare boarding school.
- decrescent — (esp of the moon) decreasing; waning
- deescalate — To decrease in intensity or magnitude.
- defervesce — to undergo defervescence.
- dehiscence — a splitting open, as of a pod or anther, along definite structural lines
- deliquesce — (esp of certain salts) to dissolve gradually in water absorbed from the air
- descendant — Someone's descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them.
- descendent — coming or going downwards; descending
- descenders — Plural form of descender.
- descendeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of descend.
- descendeur — a shaped metal piece through which the rope can be fed: used to control the rate of descent in abseiling
- descending — When a group of things is listed or arranged in descending order, each thing is smaller or less important than the thing before it.
- descension — the action of descending; descent
- deschooled — Simple past tense and past participle of deschool.
- deschooler — an advocate of deschooling
- desciption — Misspelling of description.
- descramble — to restore (a scrambled signal) to an intelligible form, esp automatically by the use of electronic devices
- descriable — Capable of being descried (detected or perceived).
- describent — (geometry) A generatrix.
- describers — Plural form of describer.
- describing — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- descriptor — a word or phrase which constitutes the descriptive element of a sentence