8-letter words containing a, c, i, e
- ascribes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ascribe.
- aseismic — denoting a region free of earthquakes
- aspermic — (of a male animal) Unable to produce sperm.
- aspheric — a lens that has a shape that is not completely round
- asthenic — of, relating to, or having asthenia; weak
- atechnic — a person who has no technical or scientific ability or understanding
- athletic — Athletic means relating to athletes and athletics.
- atticize — to conform or adapt to the Attic Greek style of expression, habits, and beliefs
- audience — The audience at a play, concert, film, or public meeting is the group of people watching or listening to it.
- auncient — Obsolete form of ancient.
- auricled — (botany) auriculate.
- auricles — Plural form of auricle.
- auspices — an augur of ancient Rome.
- autecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- autocide — suicide by crashing the vehicle one is driving.
- avicenna — Arabic name ibn-Sina. 980–1037, Arab philosopher and physician whose philosophical writings, which combined Aristotelianism with neo-Platonist ideas, greatly influenced scholasticism, and whose medical work Qanun was the greatest single influence on medieval medicine
- aycliffe — a town in Co Durham: founded as a new town in 1947. Pop (including Newton Aycliffe): 25 655 (2001)
- azotemic — the accumulation of abnormally large amounts of nitrogenous waste products in the blood, as in uremic poisoning.
- babiches — Plural form of babiche.
- backbite — to talk spitefully about (an absent person)
- backfile — the archives of a newspaper or magazine
- backfire — If a plan or project backfires, it has the opposite result to the one that was intended.
- backline — (in some team sports) the defensive players considered as a unit
- backlite — (in automotive styling) the rear window of a vehicle.
- backside — Your backside is the part of your body that you sit on.
- bacteria — Bacteria are very small organisms. Some bacteria can cause disease.
- bacterin — a vaccine prepared from bacteria
- baculine — relating to flogging with a rod
- baculite — an extinct species of mollusc from the Late Cretaceous period, fossils of which have been found ranging from 7cm to 2m in length
- balearic — of or relating to the Balearic Islands
- ball ice — floating balls of slushy ice formed at sea.
- balletic — If you describe someone's movements as balletic, you mean that they have some of the graceful qualities of ballet.
- barbicel — any of the minute hooks on the barbules of feathers that interlock with those of adjacent barbules
- basilect — (in a region where creole is or has been spoken) the dialect closest to that creole and furthest removed from the most prestigious dialect (the acrolect) of the region
- bathetic — containing or displaying bathos
- beaching — an expanse of sand or pebbles along a shore.
- beatific — A beatific expression shows or expresses great happiness and calmness.
- beatrice — a feminine name: dim. Bea; var. Beatrix
- beccaria — Cesare Bonesana (ˈtʃɛzare bɔnɛˈzɑːna), Marchese de. 1738–94, Italian legal theorist and political economist; author of the influential treatise Crimes and Punishments (1764), which attacked corruption, torture, and capital punishment
- bedchair — an adjustable chair to support an invalid sitting up in bed
- bernicia — a 6th- and 7th- century Anglian kingdom, merged with Deira to form the kingdom of Northumbria, in present-day NE England and SE Scotland.
- betacism — a type of speech impediment where the b sound is excessive
- biacetyl — a liquid with a strong, butter-like odour
- binnacle — a housing for a ship's compass
- bioclean — free from harmful bacteria
- birdcage — A birdcage is a cage in which birds are kept.
- bitbrace — brace (def 3).
- blackice — (software, security) A commercial firewall and intrusion detection system.
- boadicea — Boudicca
- boniface — Saint, original name Wynfrith. ?680–?755 ad, Anglo-Saxon missionary: archbishop of Mainz (746–755). Feast day: June 5