8-letter words containing a, n, t, i, c
- conepati — hog-nosed skunk (def 2).
- contains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contain.
- continua — a continuous extent, series, or whole.
- contrail — a white trail of condensed water vapor that sometimes forms in the wake of an aircraft; vapor trail
- contrair — contrary
- countian — a resident of a specific county
- crafting — an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill: the craft of a mason.
- craniate — having a skull or cranium
- cratonic — Of or pertaining to the craton.
- creatine — an important metabolite involved in many biochemical reactions and present in many types of living cells
- creating — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- creation — In many religions, creation is the making of the universe, Earth, and creatures by God.
- croatian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Croatia, its people, or their language
- crotalin — a protein in the venom of pit vipers, used as an antigen in the preparation of snake antivenins.
- ctenidia — any of various comblike or featherlike structures, as the row of stiff bristles on the legs of a psocid.
- cumstain — Lb vulgar A stain from ejaculate.
- cuneatic — cuneiform; cuneate.
- curating — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- curation — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- curtains — death or ruin; the end
- cut nail — a nail having a tapering rectangular form with a blunt point, made by cutting from a thin rolled sheet of iron or steel.
- cyanotic — blueness or lividness of the skin, as from imperfectly oxygenated blood.
- cymation — cymatium.
- daltonic — color blindness, especially the inability to distinguish red from green.
- decating — a finishing process for making fabric more lustrous, for improving the tactile quality of the nap, and for setting the material to reduce shrinkage.
- dedicant — a person who devotes or dedicates
- diactine — a sponge spicule having two rays that develop in different directions from a single point of origin
- dianetic — Of or pertaining to dianetics.
- diatonic — of, relating to, or based upon any scale of five tones and two semitones produced by playing the white keys of a keyboard instrument, esp the natural major or minor scales forming the basis of the key system in Western music
- dication — (chemistry) Any cation, of general formula X2+, formed by the removal of two electrons from a neutral species.
- dicentra — any Asian or North American plant of the genus Dicentra, such as bleeding heart and Dutchman's-breeches, having finely divided leaves and ornamental clusters of drooping flowers: family Fumariaceae
- dictynna — an ancient Cretan goddess of the sea.
- discants — Plural form of discant.
- distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- dynastic — Pertaining to a dynasty.
- echinate — bristly; prickly.
- enacting — Present participle of enact.
- enaction — The process of enacting something.
- enactive — Having power to enact or establish as a law.
- entastic — characterized by spasms
- estancia — A cattle ranch in Latin America or the southwestern US.
- ethanoic — (organic chemistry) IUPAC nomenclature for CH3COO-.
- ethnical — (rare) Ethnic.
- exacting — Making great demands on one's skill, attention, or other resources.
- exaction — The action of demanding and obtaining something from someone, especially a payment or service.
- excitant — able to excite or stimulate
- exitance — (physics) Flux (of radiation).
- faceting — one of the small, polished plane surfaces of a cut gem.
- factions — Plural form of faction.
- fanatics — Plural form of fanatic.