8-letter words containing a, c, i, s
- alcinous — (in Homer's Odyssey) a Phaeacian king at whose court the shipwrecked Odysseus told of his wanderings
- alembics — Plural form of alembic.
- allspice — Allspice is a powder used as a spice in cooking, which is made from the berries of a tropical American tree.
- alocasia — any of various tropical plants of the genus Alocasia
- altrices — altricial birds
- americas — People sometimes refer to North America, Central America, and South America collectively as the Americas.
- americus — a city in SW central Georgia.
- amnesiac — Someone who is amnesiac has lost their memory.
- amnestic — causing amnesia
- anacusis — total deafness.
- anchises — a Trojan prince and father of Aeneas. In the Aeneid, he is rescued by his son at the fall of Troy and dies in Sicily
- anchusin — alkanet (sense 1) alkanet (sense 1c)
- ancients — Plural form of ancient.
- anctious — Obsolete form of anxious.
- anicetus — Saint, pope a.d. 155?–166?.
- antacids — Plural form of antacid.
- anticous — (in plants) facing the axis of the flower
- aoristic — Grammar. pertaining to the aorist.
- aphasiac — pertaining to or affected with aphasia.
- apiculus — a small point or tip
- aplastic — relating to or characterized by aplasia
- apositic — causing apositia
- apricots — Plural form of apricot.
- aquacise — A type of physical exercise practiced in water mostly vertically and without swimming, typically in a swimming pool in waist deep or deeper water.
- aquatics — sports or pastimes performed in or on the water
- aquiesce — Misspelling of acquiesce.
- arc sine — the angle, measured in radians, that has a sine equal to a given number. Symbol: sin −1. Abbreviation: arc sin, arcsin;
- arcanist — a person with secret knowledge of a manufacturing technique
- arcesius — a son of Zeus and Euryodia, father of Laertes, and grandfather of Odysseus.
- archaise — Standard spelling of from=non-Oxford.
- archaism — the adoption or imitation of something archaic, such as a word or an artistic or literary style
- archaist — something archaic, as a word or expression.
- archives — Usually, archives. documents or records relating to the activities, business dealings, etc., of a person, family, corporation, association, community, or nation.
- archwise — like an arch
- arctiids — Plural form of arctiid.
- articals — Misspelling of articles Plural form of artical.
- articles — legal training
- artistic — Someone who is artistic is good at drawing or painting, or arranging things in a beautiful way.
- aruspicy — haruspicy.
- asbestic — relating to asbestos
- ascanius — the son of Aeneas and Creusa; founder of Alba Longa, mother city of Rome
- ascarids — Plural form of ascarid.
- ascetics — Plural form of ascetic.
- ascidian — any minute marine invertebrate animal of the class Ascidiacea, such as the sea squirt, the adults of which are degenerate and sedentary: subphylum Tunicata (tunicates)
- ascidium — part of a plant that is shaped like a pitcher, such as the modified leaf of the pitcher plant
- asconoid — pertaining to or resembling an ascon.
- ascorbic — Of or pertaining to ascorbic acid or its derivatives.
- ascribed — Simple past tense and past participle of ascribe.
- ascribes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ascribe.
- aseismic — denoting a region free of earthquakes