9-Letter Words Starting: SACR

• To make sacred

• the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.

• personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective)

• a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value

• the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity

• (baseball) an out that advances the base runners

• endure the loss of

• kill or destroy

• sell at a loss

• make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals

• a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction

• In Ancient Rome, a place where sacred objects were kept, either in a temple (the adytum) or in a house (holding the penates)

• The area surrounding the altar of a Christian church; the sanctuary or piscina. Sometimes specifically a drain directly to the earth, perhaps including reference to a basin, for washing vessels from consecration.

• The complex sacrum of any bird.

• blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character

• an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects