6-letter words containing a, c, i
- tannic — Chemistry. of, relating to, or derived from tan or tannin.
- tictac — to make a repeated ticking or tapping sound: Sleet ticktacked against the window panes.
- tincal — a former name for crude native borax.
- tipcat — a game in which a short piece of wood, tapered at both ends, is struck lightly at one end with a bat, causing the wood to spring into the air so that it can be batted for a distance.
- tragic — characteristic or suggestive of tragedy: tragic solemnity.
- triact — a sponge spicule with three rays
- tricar — an automobile with three wheels
- tunica — a tunic.
- ubasic — Yuji Kida <[email protected]>. An extension of BASIC for symbolic mathematics and number theory. UBASIC supports bignums, fractions, complex numbers, polynomials and integer factorisation. It runs under MS-DOS and is written in assembly language.
- ugliac — (language) An early system on the Datatron 200 series.
- unciae — a bronze coin of ancient Rome, the 12th part of an as.
- uncial — designating, written in, or pertaining to a form of majuscule writing having a curved or rounded shape and used chiefly in Greek and Latin manuscripts from about the 3rd to the 9th century a.d.
- univac — (processor, company) A brand of computer. There is a historical placard in the United States Census Bureau that has the following, "The Bureau of the Census dedicated the world's first electronic general purpose data processing computer, UNIVAC I, on June 14, 1951. Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation". The Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation designed and built Univac. Over the years, rights to the Univac name changed hands several times. Circa 1987, Sperry Univac merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
- uracil — Biochemistry. a pyrimidine base, C 4 H 4 N 2 O 2 , that is one of the fundamental components of RNA, in which it forms base pairs with adenine. Symbol: U.
- uralic — a family of languages that comprises Finno-Ugric and Samoyed as subfamilies. Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian belong to Uralic.
- uranic — of or relating to the heavens; astronomical: uranic principles.
- uratic — a salt of uric acid.
- urtica — a nettle which yields a flax-like fibre
- vesica — Anatomy. a bladder.
- viatic — of or having to do with travel
- vicary — the office or position of a vicar
- vicuna — a wild South American ruminant, Vicugna vicugna, of the Andes, related to the guanaco but smaller, and yielding a soft, delicate wool: an endangered species, now increasing in numbers.
- vivace — music: lively
- vomica — a cavity, usually in the lungs, containing pus.
- wiccan — (sometimes initial capital letter) a practitioner of wicca.
- zodiac — an imaginary belt of the heavens, extending about 8° on each side of the ecliptic, within which are the apparent paths of the sun, moon, and principal planets. It contains twelve constellations and hence twelve divisions called signs of the zodiac. Each division, however, because of the precession of the equinoxes, now contains the constellation west of the one from which it took its name. Compare sign of the zodiac.