10-letter words containing sc
- escalatory — tending to escalate
- escallonia — Any of several South American flowering plants of the genus Escallonia.
- escamotage — juggling; trickery
- escape key — a key on a computer keyboard used to leave a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
- escapeless — From which escape is not possible.
- escapement — A mechanism in a clock or watch that alternately checks and releases the train by a fixed amount and transmits a periodic impulse from the spring or weight to the balance wheel or pendulum.
- escapology — The study or art of escaping from a constriction, e.g. rope, handcuffs, etc.
- escarpment — A long, steep slope, especially one at the edge of a plateau or separating areas of land at different heights.
- escatology — Alternative spelling of eschatology.
- escharotic — Capable of producing an eschar.
- escheating — Present participle of escheat.
- escoveitch — (West Indies) escabeche.
- escritoire — A small writing desk with drawers and compartments.
- escutcheon — A shield or emblem bearing a coat of arms.
- ethnoscape — A transnational distribution of correlated people.
- evanescent — Soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing.
- evanescing — Present participle of evanesce.
- eviscerate — Disembowel (a person or animal).
- excrescent — Forming or constituting an excrescence.
- fasciation — the act of binding up or bandaging.
- fascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
- fasciculus — a fascicle, as of nerve or muscle fibers.
- fascinated — to attract and hold attentively by a unique power, personal charm, unusual nature, or some other special quality; enthrall: a vivacity that fascinated the audience.
- fascinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fascinate.
- fascinator — a person or thing that fascinates.
- fasciotomy — (surgery) The cutting of the fascia to relieve tension or pressure (and treat the resulting loss of circulation to an area of tissue or muscle).
- fascistize — to make fascist; convert to fascism or a fascist philosophy or methods.
- fascistoid — Resembling fascism.
- fatiscence — the state of having cracks or chinks
- fervescent — becoming hot
- fescennine — scurrilous; licentious; obscene: fescennine mockery.
- fetoscopes — Plural form of fetoscope.
- fiberscope — an optical instrument consisting of a fiber bundle with an objective lens at one end and an eyepiece at the other, for viewing objects not accessible to direct viewing.
- fibrescope — (British) An instrument, consisting of a fibre optic bundle, used to observe inaccessible areas.
- firescreen — a decorative screen placed in the hearth when there is no fire
- flat ascii — (text) (Or "plain ASCII") Said of a text file that contains only 7-bit ASCII characters and uses only ASCII-standard control characters (that is, has no embedded codes specific to a particular text formatter markup language, or output device, and no meta-characters). Compare flat file.
- flatscreen — a type of thin, lightweight video display that uses liquid crystals or electroluminescence to reflect images.
- flavescent — turning yellow; yellowish.
- florescent — the act, state, or period of flowering; bloom.
- flosculous — (botany) Consisting of many gamopetalous florets.
- fluoresced — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoresce.
- fluorescer — something that fluoresces; a fluorescent substance
- fluoresces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluoresce.
- flyscreens — Plural form of flyscreen.
- foetoscope — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of fetoscope.
- foetoscopy — Alternative form of fetoscopy.
- foot score — a line at each end of the rink that is at right angles to its length.
- fourscorth — eightieth
- franciscan — of or relating to St. Francis or the Franciscans.
- fremescent — rumbling; beginning to roar