9-Letter Words Containing: ESCA__

• an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy

• a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)

• any carefree episode

• the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons

• an act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification)

• climb up and over

• A series of events used as a rough measure of duration.

• a person who escapes into a world of fantasy

• edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces

• thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled

• edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions

• bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top