9-letter words containing sc
- auriscope — a medical instrument for examining the external ear
- auriscopy — (medicine) Examination of the ear using an auriscope.
- auschwitz — an industrial town in S Poland; site of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Pop: 40 686 (2007 est)
- autoscope — An optical instrument for examining one's own eye.
- autoscopy — the experience of hallucination in which one sees oneself from outside one's own body
- avascular — (of certain tissues, such as cartilage) lacking blood vessels
- ayahuasca — a Brazilian plant, Banisteriopsis caapi, that has winged fruits and yields a powerful hallucinogenic alkaloid sometimes used to treat certain disorders of the central nervous system: family Malpighiaceae
- backfisch — a teenage girl; a girl who has not yet reached maturity
- baroscope — any instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, esp a manometer with one side open to the atmosphere
- bescatter — to scatter or strew about
- bioscopic — examination of a body to discover whether or not it is alive.
- borescope — a long narrow optical device used to inspect the interior of a tight space
- boschvark — a bush pig of S Africa
- box score — In baseball and basketball, a box score is a printed table of statistics showing how each player performed in a game.
- boy scout — The Boy Scouts is an organization for boys which teaches them discipline and practical skills.
- bud scale — one of the hard protective sometimes hairy or resinous specialized leaves surrounding the buds of certain plants, such as the rhododendron
- calescent — increasing in heat
- canescent — white or greyish due to the presence of numerous short white hairs
- cap screw — a screwed bolt with a cylindrical head having a hexagonal recess. The bolt is turned using a wrench of hexagonal cross section
- cascading — Present participle of cascade.
- cascadura — a small Trinidadian catfish of the family Callichthyidae, with tough scaly skin
- casco bay — bay on the SW coast of Maine, on which Portland is located
- ceausescu — Nicolae (ˌnɪkɒˈlaɪ). 1918–89, Romanian statesman; chairman of the state council (1967–89) and president of Romania (1974–89): deposed and executed
- celoscope — an instrument for examining a body cavity.
- churrasco — meat cooked over an open fire.
- cityscape — an urban landscape; view of a city
- coalesced — Simple past tense and past participle of coalesce.
- coalescer — A coalescer is a vessel or stage which causes small drops of a liquid to come together and form a stream or form elements with a larger volume.
- coalesces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coalesce.
- cockscomb — the comb of a domestic cock
- coloscope — a flexible, lighted, tubular instrument using fiber optics to permit visualization of the colon.
- coloscopy — colonoscopy.
- conoscope — a polarizing microscope for giving interference figures and for determining the principal axis of a crystal.
- conscient — conscious
- conscious — If you are conscious of something, you notice it or realize that it is happening.
- conscribe — to conscript
- conscript — A conscript is a person who has been made to join the armed forces of a country.
- corkscrew — A corkscrew is a device for pulling corks out of bottles.
- corpuscle — Corpuscles are red or white blood cells.
- coruscant — giving off flashes of light
- coruscate — to emit flashes of light; sparkle
- crepuscle — twilight
- crescence — (obsolete) increase; enlargement.
- crescendo — A crescendo is a noise that gets louder and louder. Some people also use crescendo to refer to the point when a noise is at its loudest.
- crescents — Plural form of crescent.
- crosscuts — Plural form of crosscut.
- cryoscope — any instrument used to determine the freezing point of a substance
- cryoscopy — the determination of freezing points, esp for the determination of molecular weights by measuring the lowering of the freezing point of a solvent when a known quantity of solute is added
- cub scout — a member of a junior branch (for those aged 8–11 years) of the Scout Association
- damascene — to ornament (metal, esp steel) by etching or by inlaying, usually with gold or silver