8-letter words containing a, c, i, s
- legacies — Law. a gift of property, especially personal property, as money, by will; a bequest.
- lichanos — (in Greek music) a note played using the forefinger
- lifecast — a live video of one's daily activities, broadcast over the Internet: A lot of people are obsessed with following her daily lifecast.
- localise — (transitive) alternative spelling of localize.
- localism — a word, phrase, pronunciation, or manner of speaking that is peculiar to one locality.
- localist — a word, phrase, pronunciation, or manner of speaking that is peculiar to one locality.
- lunacies — Plural form of lunacy.
- lunatics — Plural form of lunatic.
- macarise — congratulate
- macarism — Happiness as a result of praise.
- machairs — Plural form of machair.
- machines — Plural form of machine.
- machismo — a strong or exaggerated sense of manliness; an assumptive attitude that virility, courage, strength, and entitlement to dominate are attributes or concomitants of masculinity.
- machoism — having or characterized by qualities considered manly, especially when manifested in an assertive, self-conscious, or dominating way.
- macleish — Archibald, 1892–1982, U.S. poet and dramatist.
- majestic — characterized by or possessing majesty; of lofty dignity or imposing aspect; stately; grand: the majestic Alps.
- malistic — Of, or pertaining to, malism.
- marasmic — malnutrition occurring in infants and young children, caused by insufficient intake of calories or protein and characterized by thinness, dry skin, poor muscle development, and irritability.
- masaccio — (Tommaso Guidi) 1401–28? Italian painter.
- mascagni — Pietro [pye-traw] /ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA), 1863–1945, Italian operatic composer.
- mashiach — the messiah
- massicot — monoxide of lead, PbO, in the form of a yellow powder, used as a pigment and drier.
- mastitic — Pathology. inflammation of the breast.
- matrices — something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops: The Greco-Roman world was the matrix for Western civilization.
- medicals — Plural form of medical.
- meniscal — Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
- mesaraic — (anatomy) mesenteric.
- mescalin — Alternative form of mescaline.
- messapic — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- meticais — Plural form of metical.
- midscale — (business) Neither downscale nor upscale.
- midspace — an area between two celestial objects
- minicabs — Plural form of minicab.
- minicars — Plural form of minicar.
- miracles — Plural form of miracle.
- miscalls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of miscall.
- miscarry — to have a miscarriage of a fetus.
- misclaim — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- misclass — to assign to the wrong class
- mishnaic — the collection of oral laws compiled about a.d. 200 by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and forming the basic part of the Talmud.
- mismatch — to match badly or unsuitably.
- mispatch — to patch wrongly
- misplace — to put in a wrong place.
- misspace — to space out wrongly
- mistcoat — (in house painting or interior decoration) a coat of thinner, sometimes pigmented, applied to a finish coat of paint to increase its luster.
- misteach — to teach wrongly or badly.
- mistrace — to trace incorrectly
- mistrack — To track incorrectly.
- mocassin — Alternative spelling of moccasin.
- moccasin — a heelless shoe made entirely of soft leather, as deerskin, with the sole brought up and attached to a piece of u -shaped leather on top of the foot, worn originally by the American Indians.