7-letter words containing a, c, r, i
- sacrist — Also called sacrist [sak-rist, sey-krist] /ˈsæk rɪst, ˈseɪ krɪst/ (Show IPA). an official in charge of the sacred vessels, vestments, etc., of a church or a religious house.
- sarcina — any of several spherical, saprophytic bacteria of the genus Sarcina, having a cuboidal cell arrangement.
- sarcoid — a growth resembling a sarcoma.
- satiric — of, pertaining to, containing, or characterized by satire: satirical novels.
- satyric — Classical Mythology. one of a class of woodland deities, attendant on Bacchus, represented as part human, part horse, and sometimes part goat and noted for riotousness and lasciviousness.
- saucier — a chef or cook who specializes in making sauces.
- scabrid — having a rough or scaly surface
- scarier — causing fright or alarm.
- scarify — to make scratches or superficial incisions in (the skin, a wound, etc.), as in vaccination.
- scarily — in a scary or frightening manner
- scaring — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- schirra — Walter Marty, Jr [mahr-tee] /ˈmɑr ti/ (Show IPA), 1923–2007, U.S. astronaut.
- sciarid — a small black-coloured fly harmful to seedlings and mushrooms
- scoriae — Metallurgy. the refuse, dross, or slag left after melting or smelting metal; scum.
- scraich — to scream or screech
- scrapie — a usually fatal brain disease of sheep, characterized by twitching of the neck and head, grinding of the teeth, and scraping of itching portions of skin against fixed objects with a subsequent loss of wool: thought to be caused by an infectious prion.
- scribal — a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing.
- scutari — Lake, a lake between NW Albania and Montenegro. About 135 sq. mi. (350 sq. km).
- sicario — a hired gunman or assassin, esp. in Latin America
- sidecar — a small car attached on one side to a motorcycle and supported on the other side by a wheel of its own, used for a passenger, parcels, etc.
- spacier — spaced-out (def 2).
- stearic — of or relating to suet or fat.
- tacrine — a drug prescribed to patients of Alzheimer's disease
- tantric — Also called Tantrist [tuhn-trist, tan-] /ˈtʌn trɪst, ˈtæn-/ (Show IPA). an adherent of Tantra.
- theriac — molasses; treacle.
- tipcart — a cart with a body that can be tipped or tilted to empty it of its contents.
- tracing — a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige: traces of an advanced civilization among the ruins.
- traffic — the movement of vehicles, ships, persons, etc., in an area, along a street, through an air lane, over a water route, etc.: the heavy traffic on Main Street.
- triacid — capable of combining with three molecules of a monobasic acid: a triacid base.
- triadic — a group of three, especially of three closely related persons or things.
- triarch — one of three rulers of a triarchy
- triatic — the rope between a ship's mastheads
- tribeca — in Manhattan, the area between Broadway and the Hudson River south of Greenwich Village: noted as a center for artists, art galleries, etc.
- triclad — a planarian.
- tripack — a superimposition of three photographic plates or films
- turacin — a red pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
- unchair — to remove from a chair; unseat
- uricase — an enzyme found in organisms from bacteria to mammals but absent in humans
- valeric — pertaining to or derived from valerian.
- varices — plural of varix.
- varico- — indicating a varix or varicose veins
- velaric — of or relating to velar speech sounds
- vicarly — of, pertaining to, suggesting, or resembling a vicar: vicarly duties; a vicarly manner.
- viscera — Viscera are the large organs inside the body, such as the heart, liver, and stomach.
- wackier — Comparative form of wacky.
- warwick — Earl of (Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury"the Kingmaker") 1428–71, English military leader and statesman.
- zuccari — Federico [fe-de-ree-kaw] /ˌfɛ dɛˈri kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1543?–1609, and his brother Taddeo [tahd-de-aw] /tɑdˈdɛ ɔ/ (Show IPA) 1529–66, Italian painters.