8-letter words containing a, c, t, i
- castings — Plural form of casting.
- castiron — Alternative spelling of cast iron.
- castizos — Plural form of castizo.
- castling — the act of moving the king two squares laterally on the first rank and placing the nearest rook on the square passed over by the king, either towards the king's side or the queen's side
- castrati — a male singer, especially in the 18th century, castrated before puberty to prevent his soprano or contralto voice range from changing.
- castries — the capital and chief port of St Lucia. Pop: 14 000 (2005 est)
- casuists — Plural form of casuist.
- cat line — A cat line is a thin cable which is used with other equipment to move small parts of a rig or drill string.
- cat suit — a jumpsuit.
- cat-lick — a quick wash
- cat-tail — any tall, reedlike marsh plant of the genus Typha, especially T. latifolia, having long, sword-shaped leaves and dense, cylindrical clusters of minute brown flowers.
- catamite — a boy kept for sexual purposes
- catbirds — Plural form of catbird.
- catbrier — any prickly vines of the genus Smilax, such as greenbrier
- catch it — to be scolded or reprimanded
- catching — If an illness or a disease is catching, it is easily passed on or given to someone else.
- catechin — a soluble yellow solid substance found in catechu and mahogany wood and used in tanning and dyeing. Formula: C15H14O6
- catenoid — the geometrical surface generated by rotating a catenary about its axis
- caterina — a female given name, form of Catherine.
- catering — Catering is the activity of providing food and drink for a large number of people, for example at weddings and parties.
- catfight — A catfight is an angry fight or quarrel, especially between women.
- cathexis — concentration of psychic energy on a single goal
- cathisma — a short hymn used as a response
- cathodic — pertaining to a cathode or phenomena in its vicinity.
- catholic — The Catholic Church is the branch of the Christian Church that accepts the Pope as its leader and is based in the Vatican in Rome.
- catiline — Latin name Lucius Sergius Catilina. ?108–62 bc, Roman politician: organized an unsuccessful conspiracy against Cicero (63–62)
- cationic — a positively charged ion that is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis.
- catslide — (in early American architecture) a steep roof ending close to the ground, as on a saltbox.
- catstick — a broomstick or other stick used as a bat, especially in playing tipcat.
- catsuits — Plural form of catsuit.
- cattails — Plural form of cattail.
- cattiest — catlike; feline.
- caudaite — a small meteorite, generally less than one half millimeter in diameter, containing crystals of more or less pure magnetite.
- caustics — Plural form of caustic.
- cautions — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- cautious — Someone who is cautious acts very carefully in order to avoid possible danger.
- cavatina — a solo song resembling a simple aria
- cavitand — (chemistry) any of several classes of macrocycle that have a shape containing a cavity in which a guest molecule or ion may fit.
- cavitary — having or containing cavities
- cavitate — to form cavities or bubbles
- cavitied — Having cavities.
- cavities — Plural form of cavity.
- cei-pact — Central European Initiative on Parallel Computation.
- celibate — Someone who is celibate does not marry or have sex, because of their religious beliefs.
- centiare — a unit of area equal to one square metre
- centibar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to 1/100 (0.01) bar or 10,000 dynes per square centimeter.
- centiday — One one-hundredth (1/100) of one day; that is, 14 minutes and 24 seconds.
- ceramist — a person who works in ceramics; ceramic artist
- ceratite — An ammonoid fossil of an intermediate type found chiefly in the Permian and Triassic periods, typically with partly frilled and partly lobed suture lines.
- ceratoid — having the shape or texture of animal horn