9-letter words containing sc
- 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.
- expiscate — to fish out; to find out by investigation
- fasciated — Showing abnormal fusion of parts or organs, resulting in a flattened, ribbonlike structure.
- fascicled — Growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster.
- fascicles — Plural form of fascicle.
- fascicule — a fascicle, especially of a book.
- fasciculi — a fascicle, as of nerve or muscle fibers.
- fasciitis — inflammation of the fascia.
- fascinate — 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.
- fascistic — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- fast scsi — (hardware) A variant on the SCSI-2 bus. It uses the same 8-bit bus as the original SCSI-1 but runs at up to 10MB/s - double the speed of SCSI-1.
- fatiscent — having cracks or chinks
- fetoscope — a tubular fiberoptic instrument used for diagnostic examination of the fetus and interior of the uterus.
- fetoscopy — examination by means of a fetoscope.
- 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
- fiscalist — someone who believes that fiscal policy is of paramount importance in economic regulation
- fiscality — Fiscal policy or considerations.
- fivescore — (archaic) Hundred.
- floscular — Flosculous.
- fluoresce — to exhibit fluorescence.
- flyscreen — A screen attached to the front of a motorcycle, designed to prevent insects from flying into the rider.
- foolscaps — Plural form of foolscap.
- foscarnet — a drug used to treat herpes viruses
- fourscore — four times twenty; eighty.
- 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.
- francisco — a male given name, Spanish form of Francis.
- frescoing — Present participle of fresco.
- frondesce — To unfold leaves, as plants.
- gascoigne — George, 1525?–77, English poet.
- gasconade — extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
- gasconism — the quality of being boastful; boastfulness
- gauchesco — of or relating to gauchos
- gold disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 250 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 500 000 copies
- gottsched — Johann Christoph. 1700–66, German critic, dramatist, and translator
- grayscale — a scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography.
- greyscale — Alternative spelling of grayscale.
- gyroscope — an apparatus consisting of a rotating wheel so mounted that its axis can turn freely in certain or all directions, and capable of maintaining the same absolute direction in space in spite of movements of the mountings and surrounding parts: used to maintain equilibrium, determine direction, etc.
- hardscape — the manmade part of the grounds surrounding a building, as paved areas or statues.
- headscarf — A square of fabric worn as a covering for the head, often folded into a triangle and knotted under the chin.
- hodoscope — any device for tracing the path of a charged particle, esp a particle found in cosmic rays
- hog score — a line at each end of the rink, parallel to the foot score and usually 7 yards (6.4 meters) in advance of the tee.
- hopscotch — a children's game in which a player tosses or kicks a small flat stone, beanbag, or other object into one of several numbered sections of a diagram marked on the pavement or ground and then hops on one foot over the lines from section to section and picks up the stone or object, usually while standing on one foot in an adjacent section.
- horoscope — a diagram of the heavens, showing the relative position of planets and the signs of the zodiac, for use in calculating births, foretelling events in a person's life, etc.
- horoscopy — Archaic. the casting or taking of horoscopes.
- huascaran — a mountain in W Peru, in the Andes. 22,205 feet (6768 meters).
- ice screw — a screwed tubular or solid steel rod with a ring at one end for inserting into ice as an anchor point
- ideoscape — (according to w Arjun Appadurai) The global flow of ideologies.