8-letter words containing a, c, i
- amnesiac — Someone who is amnesiac has lost their memory.
- amnestic — causing amnesia
- amnionic — Amniotic.
- amniotic — of or relating to the amnion
- amorphic — Having no defined shape, lacking form; amorphous.
- amphoric — resembling the sound produced by blowing into a bottle. Amphoric breath sounds are heard through a stethoscope placed over a cavity in the lung
- amplicon — A piece of DNA or RNA formed as the products of natural or artificial amplification events, as in a polymerase chain reaction.
- amuletic — having the qualities of a charm
- anabatic — (of air currents) rising upwards, esp up slopes
- anabolic — of or relating to anabolism
- anacusis — total deafness.
- anagogic — of or relating to an anagoge.
- analcime — a hard, colorless or white zeolite, NaAlSi2O6·H2O, commonly found in basalts
- analcite — a white, grey, or colourless zeolite mineral consisting of hydrated sodium aluminium silicate in cubic crystalline form. Formula: NaAlSi2O6.H2O
- analogic — based on, involving, or expressing an analogy.
- analytic — Analytic means the same as analytical.
- anamonic — A mnemonic used for recalling lists of words, particularly in Scrabble, consisting of a \"stem\" of base letters and an accompanying phrase, each of whose letters can combine with the stem to form an anagram of a word.
- anarchic — If you describe someone or something as anarchic, you disapprove of them because they do not recognize or obey any rules or laws.
- anatomic — of or relating to anatomy
- anch'ing — a city in S Anhui province, in E China, on the Chang Jiang: former capital of Anhui.
- 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.
- anconoid — resembling the ancon or elbow
- anctious — Obsolete form of anxious.
- anechoic — having a low degree of reverberation of sound
- anephric — (pathology) Without functioning kidneys.
- angelica — Angelica is the candied stems of the angelica plant which can be used in making cakes or sweets.
- angelico — Fra (fra), original name Guido di Pietro; monastic name Fra Giovanni da Fiesole. ?1400–55, Italian fresco painter and Dominican friar
- anglican — Anglican means belonging or relating to the Church of England, or to the churches related to it.
- anicetus — Saint, pope a.d. 155?–166?.
- aniconic — (of images of deities, symbols, etc) not portrayed in a human or animal form
- animalic — relating to animals
- animatic — an initial edition or forerunner of a film, often a commercial, which contains a sequence of storyboard shots accompanied by a soundtrack
- anodynic — relating to the soothing or alleviating of pain
- anomeric — (organic chemistry) Of, or pertaining to anomers.
- anorchia — An intersex condition of XY individuals where both testes are absent at birth.
- anorexic — If someone is anorexic, they are suffering from anorexia and so are very thin.
- antacids — Plural form of antacid.
- antalgic — relieving or reducing pain
- anthemic — (of a song) like an anthem in being rousing or uplifting.
- antiacid — Antacid.
- antiacne — inhibiting the development of acne
- anticity — opposed to cities
- anticize — to play absurdly, or perform antics
- anticked — Simple past tense and past participle of antic.
- anticlot — Countering clotting of the blood.
- anticold — preventing or treating the common cold
- anticous — (in plants) facing the axis of the flower
- anticult — opposed to religious cults