8-letter words containing a, c, s, e, i
- mistrace — to trace incorrectly
- musicale — a music program forming the main part of a social occasion.
- nuisance — an obnoxious or annoying person, thing, condition, practice, etc.: a monthly meeting that was more nuisance than pleasure.
- oscitate — To gape; to yawn.
- panicles — a compound raceme.
- pastiche — a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
- patrices — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- pelasgic — Pelasgian.
- perisarc — the horny or chitinous outer case or covering protecting the soft parts of hydrozoans.
- pistache — the nut of a Eurasian tree, Pistacia vera, of the cashew family, containing an edible, greenish kernel.
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- racemism — (of a compound) the state of being optically inactive and separable into two other substances of the same chemical composition as the original substance, one of which is dextrorotatory and the other levorotatory, as racemic acid.
- rachises — Plural form of rachis.
- raciness — slightly improper or indelicate; suggestive; risqué.
- salience — the state or condition of being salient.
- saliency — salience.
- sapience — having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment.
- sapiency — having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment.
- sarcinae — any of several spherical, saprophytic bacteria of the genus Sarcina, having a cuboidal cell arrangement.
- saucisse — a small sausage
- saxicole — living on or among rocks
- scaliger — Joseph Justus [juhs-tuh s] /ˈdʒʌs təs/ (Show IPA), 1540–1609, French scholar and critic.
- scanties — women's underwear
- scariest — causing fright or alarm.
- scawtite — a hydrated carbonate and silicate of calcium, Ca7Si6(CO3)O18·2H2O
- scenario — an outline of the plot of a dramatic work, giving particulars as to the scenes, characters, situations, etc.
- scenical — of or relating to natural scenery.
- schiedam — a city in SW Netherlands.
- sciaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Sciaenidae, a family of carnivorous fishes that produce a loud sound by snapping the muscles attached to their air bladder, comprising the croakers and drums.
- scituate — a town in E Massachusetts.
- seapiece — seascape (def 1).
- sedecias — Zedekiah.
- seleucia — an ancient city in Iraq, on the Tigris River: capital of the Seleucid empire.
- selictar — the sword-bearer of a chieftain
- semantic — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semiarch — a half arch.
- semicoma — a light coma from which a person can be roused.
- semuncia — a bronze coin produced during the period of the Roman Republic, weighing half an ounce, and equivalent in value to a twenty-fourth of an as at the time
- septical — septic
- seraphic — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
- sericate — sericeous; silky.
- shechina — the radiance in which God's immanent presence in the midst of his people, esp in the Temple, is visibly manifested
- shechita — the Jewish method of killing animals for food
- sidalcea — any plant of the mostly perennial N American genus Sidalcea, related to and resembling mallow, esp S. malvaeflora, grown for its spikes of lilac, pink, or red flowers: family Malvaceae
- silicate — Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.
- skincare — use of toiletries on the skin
- slipcase — a box for a book or set of books, open on one side so that the spine is visible.
- sociable — inclined to associate with or be in the company of others.
- societal — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- sonicate — a thing which has been subjected to sound waves