8-letter words containing a, d, s, c, i
- digicash — (company) A company, started in April 1990, which aims to develop and license products to support electronic payment methods including chip card, software only, and hybrid.
- diocesan — of or relating to a diocese.
- diphasic — having two phases; two-phase.
- discandy — to melt or dissolve
- discants — Plural form of discant.
- discards — Plural form of discard.
- discased — to take the case or covering from; uncase.
- disclaim — to deny or repudiate interest in or connection with; disavow; disown: disclaiming all participation.
- disclame — (obsolete) To disclaim; to expel.
- disgrace — the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.
- dispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dispeace — an absence of peace
- displace — to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
- distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- distract — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- docimasy — the close examination of a person or substance in order to determine nature, quality and characteristics, formerly used to describe the evaluation of aspirants for public office or citizenship in Ancient Greece, now used of assaying metallic ores
- doxastic — Of, pertaining to, or depending on opinion; conjectural.
- draconis — a late 7th-century b.c. Athenian statesman noted for the severity of his code of laws.
- dynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the motion of bodies under the action of forces.
- dynastic — Pertaining to a dynasty.
- dystaxic — relating to or affected by dystaxia
- dystocia — Difficult birth, typically caused by a large or awkwardly positioned fetus, by smallness of the maternal pelvis, or by failure of the uterus and cervix to contract and expand normally.
- echidnas — Plural form of echidna.
- edacious — devouring; voracious; consuming.
- facadism — the principle or practice of preserving the fronts of buildings that have elegant architectural designs; the construction of a modern building behind its old or original front.
- factoids — Plural form of factoid.
- guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
- hindcast — to test (a mathematical model) by observing whether it would have correctly predicted a historical event
- idocrase — vesuvianite.
- medicals — Plural form of medical.
- midscale — (business) Neither downscale nor upscale.
- midspace — an area between two celestial objects
- muscadin — a person with monarchical sympathies during the French Revolution, especially from 1794 to 1796.
- nonacids — Plural form of nonacid.
- oxidasic — relating to enzymes that catalyse oxidation
- quadrics — Plural form of quadric.
- richards — a male given name.
- saccadic — characterized by discontinuous or sporadic movement; jerky.
- sadistic — pertaining to or characterized by sadism; deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from extreme cruelty: a sadistic psychopath.
- sandwich — a town in E Kent, in SE England: one of the Cinque Ports.
- sarcodic — pertaining to the sarcode or protoplasm of an animal
- sardonic — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- scalding — to burn or affect painfully with or as if with hot liquid or steam.
- scaldino — an Italian earthen brazier
- scandian — of or relating to Scandia.
- scandisk — (operating system, storage) An MS-DOS command to check for faults on a disk and provide a graphical representation the results. Scandisk was introduced with MS-DOS version 6 to replace CHKDSK.
- scandium — a rare, trivalent, metallic element obtained from thortveitite. Symbol: Sc; atomic weight: 44.956; atomic number: 21; specific gravity: 3.0.
- scaphoid — boat-shaped; navicular.
- 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.