6-letter words containing EC
Embark on an exploration of 6-letter words that contain the letter EC. This segment uncovers the diverse range of words that incorporate EC within this specific length, revealing the versatility and richness of language. Ideal for vocabulary enthusiasts and word-game aficionados.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| second | 9 | an indefinitely short time | - |
| become | 12 | undergo a change or development | - |
| secret | 8 | not openly made known | a secret marriage |
| became | 12 | - | - |
| expect | 17 | regard something as probable or likely | The meteorologists are expecting rain for tomorrow |
| record | 9 | register electronically | They recorded her singing |
| decide | 10 | bring to an end; settle conclusively | The case was decided |
| speech | 13 | (language) communication by word of mouth | his speech was garbled |
| decent | 9 | in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion | a decent burial |
| effect | 14 | a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise |
| direct | 9 | plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | - |
| object | 17 | the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) | the sole object of her trip was to see her children |
| secure | 8 | immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with | a secure telephone connection |
| recall | 8 | cause to be returned | recall the defective auto tires |
| recent | 8 | approximately the last 10,000 years | - |
| reckon | 12 | have faith or confidence in | - |
| affect | 14 | have an effect upon | Will the new rules affect me? |
| hector | 11 | be bossy towards | - |
| sector | 8 | a particular aspect of life or activity | he was helpless in an important sector of his life |
| greece | 9 | a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil | - |
| recipe | 10 | directions for making something | - |
| decade | 10 | the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system | - |
| reject | 15 | refuse entrance or membership | Black people were often rejected by country clubs |
| aspect | 10 | the feelings expressed on a person's face | - |
| select | 8 | pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives | She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her |
| insect | 8 | a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect | - |
| detect | 9 | discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of | She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water |
| recite | 8 | recite in elocution | - |
| inject | 15 | force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing | inject hydrogen into the balloon |
| defect | 12 | desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army | - |
| quebec | 19 | the French-speaking capital of the province of Quebec; situated on the Saint Lawrence River | - |
| techno | 11 | a style of fast heavy electronic dance music usually without vocals | - |
| decree | 9 | decide with authority | The King decreed that all firstborn males should be killed |
| decker | 13 | English dramatist and pamphleteer (1572-1632) | - |
| echoes | 11 | - | - |
| recess | 8 | a small concavity | - |
| deceit | 9 | a misleading falsehood | - |
| pecker | 14 | bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects | - |
| rectum | 10 | the terminal section of the alimentary canal; from the sigmoid flexure to the anus | - |
| nectar | 8 | (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal | - |
| infect | 11 | contaminate with a disease or microorganism | - |
| apiece | 10 | to or from every one of two or more (considered individually) | - |
| hectic | 13 | marked by intense agitation or emotion | - |
| vector | 11 | any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease | mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever |
| fleece | 11 | outer coat of especially sheep and yaks | - |
| decode | 10 | convert code into ordinary language | - |
| rectal | 8 | of or involving the rectum | rectal cancer |
| echoed | 12 | - | - |
| rector | 8 | a person authorized to conduct religious worship | - |
| recoil | 8 | a movement back from an impact | - |
| breech | 13 | opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded | - |
| necked | 13 | having a neck or having a neck especially as specified (often used in combination) | - |
| recoup | 10 | regain or make up for | - |
| abject | 17 | showing utter resignation or hopelessness | abject surrender |
| eczema | 19 | generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin; particularly with vesiculation in the acute stages | - |
| recant | 8 | formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | - |
| recast | 8 | cast again | The bell cracked and had to be recast |
| recede | 9 | pull back or move away or backward | - |
| recuse | 8 | challenge or except to a judge as being incompetent or interested, in canon and civil law | - |
| eclair | 8 | oblong cream puff | - |
| heckle | 15 | a comb for separating flax fibers | - |
| beckon | 14 | signal with the hands or nod | - |
| faeces | 11 | solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | - |
| seneca | 8 | Roman statesman and philosopher who was an advisor to Nero; his nine extant tragedies are modeled on Greek tragedies (circa 4 BC - 65 AD) | - |
| lecher | 11 | man with strong sexual desires | - |
| secede | 9 | withdraw from an organization or communion | - |
| techie | 11 | a technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing) | - |
| creche | 13 | a hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for | - |
| becket | 14 | (Roman Catholic Church) archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170; murdered following his opposition to Henry II's attempts to control the clergy (1118-1170) | - |
| kopeck | 18 | 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia | - |
| geckos | 13 | - | - |
| ipecac | 12 | a medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning) | - |
| faecal | 11 | of or relating to feces | - |
| icecap | 12 | a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak) | - |
| fecund | 12 | intellectually productive | a fecund imagination |
| precis | 10 | a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory | - |
| bisect | 10 | cut in half or cut in two | bisect a line |
| specie | 10 | coins collectively | - |
| lector | 8 | someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church | - |
| deject | 16 | lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | - |
| decant | 9 | pour out | the sommelier decanted the wines |
| fleecy | 14 | (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing | a fleecy lining |
| bedeck | 15 | decorate | - |
| resect | 8 | surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ | - |
| pectin | 10 | any of various water-soluble colloidal carbohydrates that occur in ripe fruit and vegetables; used in making fruit jellies and jams | - |
| lechwe | 14 | tawny-colored African antelope inhabiting wet grassy plains; a threatened species | - |
| decamp | 13 | leave a camp | The hikers decamped before dawn |
| decile | 9 | (statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores | - |
| ecomap | 12 | - | - |
| decans | 9 | - | - |
| spects | 10 | - | - |
| rechip | 13 | - | - |
| preces | 10 | - | - |
| precip | 12 | - | - |
| secula | 8 | - | - |
| precut | 10 | - | - |
| rebeck | 14 | - | - |
| rebecs | 10 | - | - |
| recals | 8 | - | - |
| recane | 8 | - | - |
| recaps | 10 | - | - |
| recced | 11 | - | - |
| recces | 10 | - | - |
| reecho | 11 | echo repeatedly, echo again and again | - |
| reechy | 14 | - | - |
| reccos | 10 | - | - |
| recked | 13 | - | - |
| reclad | 9 | - | - |
| recoal | 8 | - | - |
| recoat | 8 | - | - |
| recock | 14 | - | - |
| recode | 9 | put into a different code; rearrange mentally | People recode and restructure information in order to remember it |
| reckan | 12 | - | - |
| recits | 8 | - | - |
| recept | 10 | - | - |
| rechew | 14 | - | - |
| rechie | 11 | - | - |
| recoin | 8 | - | - |
| recomb | 12 | - | - |
| recons | 8 | - | - |
| recule | 8 | - | - |
| recure | 8 | - | - |
| recurs | 8 | - | - |
| recuts | 8 | - | - |
| rectus | 8 | any of various straight muscles | - |
| recook | 12 | - | - |
| recopy | 13 | copy again | The child had to recopy the homework |
| recork | 12 | - | - |
| rectos | 8 | - | - |
| refect | 11 | - | - |
| ripeck | 14 | - | - |
| rypeck | 17 | - | - |
| samech | 13 | - | - |
| secern | 8 | mark as different | - |
| secesh | 11 | - | - |
| seckel | 12 | small yellowish- to reddish-brown pear | - |
| seckle | 12 | - | - |
| secpar | 10 | a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years | - |
| seccos | 10 | - | - |
| secant | 8 | ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle | - |
| secund | 9 | - | - |
| siecle | 8 | - | - |
| sleech | 11 | - | - |
| smeech | 13 | - | - |
| snecks | 12 | - | - |
| parsec | 10 | a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years | - |
| pieced | 11 | - | - |
| piecen | 10 | - | - |
| piecer | 10 | - | - |
| pieces | 10 | - | - |
| pecans | 10 | - | - |
| pechan | 13 | - | - |
| peched | 14 | - | - |
| pecked | 15 | - | - |
| peeces | 10 | - | - |
| peckes | 14 | - | - |
| pecten | 10 | - | - |
| pectic | 12 | of or relating to or derived from pectin | pectic acid |
| tectum | 10 | - | - |
| tectal | 8 | - | - |
| teckel | 12 | - | - |
| teched | 12 | - | - |
| tenrec | 8 | small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar; resembles a hedgehog | - |
| tanrec | 8 | - | - |
| speccy | 15 | - | - |
| specks | 14 | - | - |
| specky | 17 | - | - |
| undeck | 13 | - | - |
| varecs | 11 | - | - |
| varech | 14 | - | - |
| wheech | 17 | - | - |
| wechts | 14 | - | - |
| wrecks | 15 | - | - |
| xebecs | 17 | - | - |
| yecchs | 16 | - | - |
| thecal | 11 | - | - |
| thecae | 11 | - | - |
| trecks | 12 | - | - |
| toecap | 10 | a protective leather or steel cover for the toe of a boot or shoe, reinforcing or decorating it | - |
| zechin | 20 | - | - |
| zebecs | 19 | - | - |
| zebeck | 23 | - | - |
| zydeco | 21 | music of southern Louisiana that combines French dance melodies with Caribbean music and blues | - |
| zoecia | 17 | - | - |
| zarnec | 17 | - | - |
| kecked | 17 | - | - |
| keckle | 16 | - | - |
| kecksy | 19 | - | - |
| lectin | 8 | any of several plant glycoproteins that act like specific antibodies but are not antibodies in that they are not evoked by an antigenic stimulus | - |
| leches | 11 | - | - |
| leched | 12 | - | - |
| limbec | 12 | - | - |
| meccas | 12 | - | - |
| nebeck | 14 | - | - |
| necker | 12 | a lover who necks | - |
| nieces | 8 | - | - |
| obeche | 13 | large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood | - |
| obtect | 10 | - | - |
| oecist | 8 | - | - |
| humect | 13 | - | - |
| decury | 12 | - | - |
| dectet | 9 | - | - |
| decaff | 15 | - | - |
| decafs | 12 | - | - |
| decals | 9 | - | - |
| decane | 9 | - | - |
| decani | 9 | - | - |
| decarb | 11 | - | - |
| decads | 10 | - | - |
| decare | 9 | - | - |
| decays | 12 | - | - |
| deccie | 11 | - | - |
| deckos | 13 | - | - |
| declaw | 12 | remove the claws from | declaw a cat |
| decoct | 11 | be cooked until very little liquid is left | - |
| decoke | 13 | remove carbon from (an engine) | - |
| decors | 9 | - | - |
| decoys | 12 | - | - |
| deckle | 13 | rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper | - |
| decern | 9 | - | - |
| decime | 11 | - | - |
| decked | 14 | - | - |
| deckel | 13 | - | - |
| decrew | 12 | - | - |
| dioecy | 12 | - | - |
| drecks | 13 | - | - |
| drecky | 16 | - | - |
| elects | 8 | - | - |
| ecarte | 8 | a card game for 2 players; played with 32 cards and king high | - |
| ecbole | 10 | - | - |
| echoic | 13 | like or characteristic of an echo | - |
| eclats | 8 | - | - |
| eclose | 8 | - | - |
| econut | 8 | - | - |
| ectopy | 13 | - | - |
| ectype | 13 | - | - |
| ecurie | 8 | - | - |
| echoey | 14 | - | - |
| ecesic | 10 | - | - |
| ecesis | 8 | (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat | - |
| echard | 12 | - | - |
| eching | 12 | - | - |
| echini | 11 | - | - |
| echium | 13 | a genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family Boraginaceae | - |
| echoer | 11 | - | - |
| ejecta | 15 | - | - |
| ejects | 15 | - | - |
| eeched | 12 | - | - |
| eeches | 11 | - | - |
| esnecy | 11 | - | - |
| exsect | 15 | - | - |
| erects | 8 | - | - |
| feckin | 15 | - | - |
| feckly | 18 | - | - |
| fecula | 11 | excreta (especially of insects) | - |
| fecked | 16 | - | - |
| fecial | 11 | - | - |
| fechts | 14 | - | - |
| fennec | 11 | - | - |
| eyecup | 13 | a small vessel with a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye; use to apply medicated or cleansing solution to the eyeball | an eyecup is called an eyebath in Britain |
| fleech | 14 | - | - |
| flecky | 18 | - | - |
| fleche | 14 | - | - |
| flecks | 15 | - | - |
| gecked | 14 | - | - |
| greces | 9 | - | - |
| griece | 9 | - | - |
| hechts | 14 | - | - |
| cosech | 13 | - | - |
| cosecs | 10 | - | - |
| cumecs | 12 | - | - |
| cusecs | 10 | - | - |
| arrect | 8 | - | - |
| arecas | 8 | - | - |
| arcsec | 10 | the inverse function of the secant; the angle that has a secant equal to a given number | - |
| caecum | 12 | the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens | - |
| caecal | 10 | of or like a cecum | - |
| chebec | 15 | - | - |
| checks | 17 | - | - |
| checky | 20 | - | - |
| cecils | 10 | - | - |
| cecity | 13 | the state of being blind or lacking sight | - |
| cleche | 13 | - | - |
| clecks | 14 | - | - |
| clecky | 17 | - | - |
| copeck | 16 | 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia | - |
| codecs | 11 | - | - |
| becalm | 12 | make steady | - |
| becurl | 10 | - | - |
| becaps | 12 | - | - |
| becked | 15 | - | - |
| beckes | 14 | - | - |
| beclog | 11 | - | - |
| beechy | 16 | - | - |
| becall | 10 | - | - |
| advect | 12 | convey by horizontal mass movement of a fluid | energy advected from the environment |
| aecium | 10 | fruiting body of some rust fungi bearing chains of aeciospores | - |
| aecial | 8 | of or belonging to an aecium | - |
| alecks | 12 | - | - |
