7-letter words containing a, i, s
- chaises — Plural form of chaise.
- chalcis — a city on the island of Euboea in SE Greece, at the narrowest point of the Euripus strait: important since the 7th century bc, founding many colonies in ancient times. Pop (municipality): 55 264 (2001)
- challis — a lightweight plain-weave fabric of wool, cotton, etc, usually with a printed design
- chamisa — a deciduous shrub with silver-blue leaves and yellow flowers that bloom in autumn
- chamise — An evergreen shrub native to California, Adenostoma fasciculatum in the botanical family Rosaceae.
- chamiso — an evergreen shrub with yellow-green flowers native to the western United States
- chamois — Chamois are small animals rather like goats that live in the mountains of Europe and South West Asia.
- charism — Theology. a divinely conferred gift or power.
- chasing — the act of chasing; pursuit: The chase lasted a day.
- chasmic — a yawning fissure or deep cleft in the earth's surface; gorge.
- chassid — a sect of Jewish mystics founded in Poland about 1750, characterized by religious zeal and a spirit of prayer, joy, and charity
- chassis — A chassis is the framework that a vehicle is built on.
- chavish — a person who wears fashionable brands, flashy jewelry, etc., but is regarded as having bad or lower-class taste.
- chiapas — a state of S Mexico: mountainous and forested; Maya ruins in the northeast; rich mineral resources. Capital: Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Pop: 3 920 515 (2000). Area: 73 887 sq km (28 816 sq miles)
- chiasma — the cross-shaped connection produced by the crossing over of pairing chromosomes during meiosis
- chiasmi — Plural form of chiasmus.
- chinars — Plural form of chinar.
- cicadas — Plural form of cicada.
- cicalas — Plural form of cicala.
- cidaris — a sea urchin in the class Echinoidea
- cimaise — a pewter wine jar having a spout, a fixed handle on the side opposite the spout, and a bail for carrying.
- cineast — An enthusiast of film and the cinema.
- cinemas — Plural form of cinema.
- circars — Plural form of circar.
- cis man — an adult who was born male and whose gender identity is male.
- ciseaux — a jump in which the dancer's legs are opened wide in the air and closed on landing.
- civitas — the body of citizens who constitute a state, especially a city-state, commonwealth, or the like.
- cladism — the cladistic method of classification.
- cladist — a specialist in cladistics
- classic — A classic example of a thing or situation has all the features which you expect such a thing or situation to have.
- classis — a governing body of elders or pastors
- clastic — (of sedimentary rock, etc) composed of fragments of pre-existing rock that have been transported some distance from their points of origin
- clavius — one of the largest of the craters on the moon, about 230 kilometres (145 miles) in diameter, whose walls have peaks up to 5700 metres (19 000 feet) above the floor. It lies in the SE quadrant
- clayish — Resembling clay.
- coalise — to form a coalition
- corsair — a pirate
- corsica — an island in the Mediterranean, west of N Italy: forms, with 43 islets, a region of France; mountainous; settled by Greeks in about 560 bc; sold by Genoa to France in 1768. Capital: Ajaccio. Pop: 265 999 (2003 est). Area: 8682 sq km (3367 sq miles)
- costain — Thomas Bertram, 1885–1965, U.S. novelist, historian, and editor, born in Canada.
- crazies — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- crissal — of or relating to the crissum.
- cristae — a crest or ridge.
- cuirass — a piece of armour, of leather or metal covering the chest and back
- cumbias — Plural form of cumbia.
- curiosa — curiosities
- cycasin — a glucoside occurring in cycads, toxic and carcinogenic to mammals
- cymaise — a pewter wine jar having a spout, a fixed handle on the side opposite the spout, and a bail for carrying.
- czarism — the Russian government under the czars
- czarist — a variant spelling (esp US) of tsarist
- daboias — Plural form of daboia.
- dacoits — Plural form of dacoit.