8-letter words containing a, c, i, e
- ricercar — Music. a chiefly polyphonic instrumental form of the 16th and 17th centuries closely resembling the vocal motet in structure and style.
- riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
- rinceaux — an ornamental foliate or floral motif.
- rocaille — Fine Arts. any of the fantastic ornamental, often asymmetrical, combinations characteristic of the Rococo period, consisting of rock, shell, and plant forms combined with artificial forms, esp C -curves.
- salience — the state or condition of being salient.
- saliency — salience.
- sapience — having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment.
- sapiency — having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment.
- sarcinae — any of several spherical, saprophytic bacteria of the genus Sarcina, having a cuboidal cell arrangement.
- saucisse — a small sausage
- saxicole — living on or among rocks
- scaliger — Joseph Justus [juhs-tuh s] /ˈdʒʌs təs/ (Show IPA), 1540–1609, French scholar and critic.
- scanties — women's underwear
- scariest — causing fright or alarm.
- scawtite — a hydrated carbonate and silicate of calcium, Ca7Si6(CO3)O18·2H2O
- scenario — an outline of the plot of a dramatic work, giving particulars as to the scenes, characters, situations, etc.
- scenical — of or relating to natural scenery.
- schiedam — a city in SW Netherlands.
- sciaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Sciaenidae, a family of carnivorous fishes that produce a loud sound by snapping the muscles attached to their air bladder, comprising the croakers and drums.
- scituate — a town in E Massachusetts.
- seapiece — seascape (def 1).
- sedecias — Zedekiah.
- seleucia — an ancient city in Iraq, on the Tigris River: capital of the Seleucid empire.
- selictar — the sword-bearer of a chieftain
- semantic — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semiarch — a half arch.
- semicoma — a light coma from which a person can be roused.
- semuncia — a bronze coin produced during the period of the Roman Republic, weighing half an ounce, and equivalent in value to a twenty-fourth of an as at the time
- septical — septic
- seraphic — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
- sericate — sericeous; silky.
- shechina — the radiance in which God's immanent presence in the midst of his people, esp in the Temple, is visibly manifested
- shechita — the Jewish method of killing animals for food
- sidalcea — any plant of the mostly perennial N American genus Sidalcea, related to and resembling mallow, esp S. malvaeflora, grown for its spikes of lilac, pink, or red flowers: family Malvaceae
- silicate — Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.
- skincare — use of toiletries on the skin
- slipcase — a box for a book or set of books, open on one side so that the spine is visible.
- sociable — inclined to associate with or be in the company of others.
- societal — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- sonicate — a thing which has been subjected to sound waves
- speciate — to form or develop into a new biological species
- spiracle — a breathing hole; an opening by which a confined space has communication with the outer air; air hole.
- sterical — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- suitcase — a usually rectangular piece of luggage especially for carrying clothes while traveling.
- suricate — a small, burrowing South African carnivore, Suricata suricatta, of a grayish color with dark bands across the back, related to the mongooses and having social behavior similar to that of prairie dogs.
- sycamine — a tree mentioned in the New Testament, probably the black mulberry.
- synechia — any adhesion of parts of the body, as of the iris to the cornea.
- tachisme — action painting (def 1).
- tachiste — an artist who practises tachisme
- tacitean — of, relating to, or characteristic of Publius Cornelius Tacitus.