6-letter words containing a, c
- acumen — keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a situation; shrewdness
- acuter — Comparative form of acute.
- acutes — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- ad hoc — An ad hoc activity or organization is done or formed only because a situation has made it necessary and is not planned in advance.
- adamic — pertaining to or suggestive of Adam.
- adance — Dancing.
- addict — An addict is someone who takes harmful drugs and cannot stop taking them.
- adduce — If you adduce something such as a fact or reason, you mention it in order to support an argument.
- adduct — (of a muscle) to draw or pull (a leg, arm, etc) towards the median axis of the body
- adipic — (organic chemistry) Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.
- adject — (obsolete) To annex.
- adonic — (in classical prosody) of or relating to a verse line consisting of a dactyl (– ◡ ◡) followed by a spondee (– –) or by a trochee (– ◡), thought to have been first used in laments for Adonis
- aduice — Obsolete spelling of advice.
- advect — (of air, water) to move horizontally
- advice — If you give someone advice, you tell them what you think they should do in a particular situation.
- aeacus — a king of Aegina who, after he dies, becomes one of the three judges of the dead in the lower world, with Minos and Rhadamanthus
- aecial — relating to or resembling an aecium
- aecium — a globular or cup-shaped structure in some rust fungi in which aeciospores are produced
- aeolic — of or relating to the Aeolians or their dialect
- aeonic — lasting for an aeon
- affect — If something affects a person or thing, it influences them or causes them to change in some way.
- afocal — denoting a method for transferring an image without bringing it into focus
- africa — the second largest of the continents, on the Mediterranean in the north, the Atlantic in the west, and the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Indian Ocean in the east. The Sahara desert divides the continent unequally into North Africa (an early centre of civilization, in close contact with Europe and W Asia, now inhabited chiefly by Arabs) and Africa south of the Sahara (relatively isolated from the rest of the world until the 19th century and inhabited chiefly by Negroid peoples). It was colonized mainly in the 18th and 19th centuries by Europeans and now comprises independent nations. The largest lake is Lake Victoria and the chief rivers are the Nile, Niger, Congo, and Zambezi. Pop: 1 100 000 000 (2013 est). Area: about 30 300 000 sq km (11 700 000 sq miles)
- afscme — American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
- agamic — asexual; occurring or reproducing without fertilization
- agaric — any saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungus of the family Agaricaceae, having gills on the underside of the cap. The group includes the edible mushrooms and poisonous forms such as the fly agaric
- agency — An agency is a business which provides a service on behalf of other businesses.
- agogic — Music. stress given to a note through prolonged duration.
- agonic — forming no angle
- aimaco — AIr MAterial COmmand compiler
- aircav — air cavalry.
- alaric — ?370–410 ad, king of the Visigoths, who served under the Roman emperor Theodosius I but later invaded Greece and Italy, capturing Rome in 410
- alcade — a mayor having judicial powers.
- alcaic — of or relating to a metre used by the 7th-century bc Greek lyric poet Alcaeus, consisting of a strophe of four lines each with four feet
- alcamo — a city in NW Sicily, Italy, near the site of the ancient Greek settlement of Segesta.
- alcids — Plural form of alcid.
- alcman — 7th century bc, Greek lyric poet
- alcock — Sir John William. 1892–1919, English aviator who with A.W. Brown made the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic (1919)
- alcool — a form of pure grain spirit distilled in Quebec
- alcott — Louisa May. 1832–88, US novelist, noted for her children's books, esp Little Women (1869)
- alcove — An alcove is a small area of a room which is formed by one part of a wall being built further back than the rest of the wall.
- alcuin — 735–804 ad, English scholar and theologian; friend and adviser of Charlemagne
- alcyon — Alternative form of halcyon.
- alecto — one of the three Furies; the others are Megaera and Tisiphone
- alerce — the wood of the sandarac tree
- alexic — relating to or of the neurological condition alexia
- alicia — a feminine name
- allice — A fish, the allis shad (Alosa alosa). (from 17th c.).
- almuce — a fur-lined hood or cape formerly worn by members of certain religious orders, more recently by canons of France
- alnico — an alloy of aluminium, nickel, cobalt, iron, and copper, used to make permanent magnets