8-letter words containing a, s, i, c
- factious — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- factoids — Plural form of factoid.
- faliscan — a member of an ancient people who inhabited southern Etruria.
- fanatics — Plural form of fanatic.
- fanciers — Plural form of fancier.
- fanciest — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
- fasching — a carnival celebration that precedes Lent in German-speaking countries and communities; Shrovetide.
- fasciate — bound with a band, fillet, or bandage.
- fascicle — a section of a book or set of books being published in installments as separate pamphlets or volumes.
- fascines — Plural form of fascine.
- fascinum — An ivory phallus used in certain ancient erotic rites.
- fasciola — (anatomy) A band of grey matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.
- fasciole — one of the spine-bearing bands of tubercles found on spatangoid sea-urchins
- fascista — a member of the Fascist movement in Italy.
- fascisti — an Italian political organization which seized power and set up a fascist dictatorship (1922-43) under Mussolini
- fascists — Plural form of fascist.
- fascitis — (pathology) Inflammation of the fascia.
- fast ice — ice that is frozen to, grounded on, or attached to the bottom of an area covered by shallow water.
- fiancees — Plural form of fiancee.
- finances — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
- finbacks — Plural form of finback.
- fiscally — of or relating to the public treasury or revenues: fiscal policies.
- fishcake — a fried ball or cake of shredded fish, especially salt codfish, and mashed potato.
- francais — (borrowed) The French language.
- frascati — a fruity white wine from Rome.
- fuchsias — Plural form of fuchsia.
- gaiseric — Genseric.
- gastrick — Obsolete form of gastric.
- gelastic — Pertaining to laughter, used in laughing, or to be the subject of laughter.
- glaciers — an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers.
- glacious — Characteristic, composed, or of the nature of icy; icy.“Gla
- gracilis — a muscle in the inner side of the thigh, the action of which assists in drawing the legs inward and in bending the knee.
- gracioso — a buffoon or clown in Spanish comedy.
- gracious — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- graecism — the spirit of Greek thought, art, etc.
- granicus — a river in NW Turkey, flowing N to the Sea of Marmara: battle 334 b.c. 45 miles (70 km) long.
- graphics — a product of the graphic arts, as a drawing or print.
- grimaces — Make a grimace.
- gripsack — a traveling bag; grip.
- guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
- gw-basic — (language) An early version of MS-BASIC.
- haircuts — Plural form of haircut.
- hamlisch — Marvin. 1944–2012, US composer, best known for the musical A Chorus Line (1975)
- helicase — any of the enzymes that use the energy derived from the hydrolysis of nucleoside triphosphates to unwind the double-stranded helical structure of nucleic acids: RNA and DNA helicases.
- hepatics — Plural form of hepatic.
- hibachis — Plural form of hibachi.
- hindcast — to test (a mathematical model) by observing whether it would have correctly predicted a historical event
- hispanic — Spanish.
- huisache — a tropical and subtropical New World shrub, Acacia farnesiana, of the legume family, having clusters of fragrant, deep-yellow flower heads.
- humanics — the study of the nature or affairs of humankind.