8-letter words containing a, s, t, i, c
- saturnic — having or affected with lead-poisoning
- scanties — women's underwear
- scantily — scant in amount, quantity, etc.; barely sufficient.
- scantity — the quality of being scant or scarce
- scarcity — insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth.
- scariest — causing fright or alarm.
- scathing — bitterly severe, as a remark: a scathing review of the play.
- scatting — to sing by making full or partial use of the technique of scat singing.
- scawtite — a hydrated carbonate and silicate of calcium, Ca7Si6(CO3)O18·2H2O
- sciatica — pain and tenderness at some points of the sciatic nerve, usually caused by a prolapsed intervertebral disk; sciatic neuralgia.
- scimitar — a curved, single-edged sword of Asian, especially Eastern origin.
- scituate — a town in E Massachusetts.
- scotopia — vision in dim light (opposed to photopia).
- scythian — pertaining to Scythia, its people, or their language.
- selictar — the sword-bearer of a chieftain
- semantic — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- septical — septic
- sericate — sericeous; silky.
- shechita — the Jewish method of killing animals for food
- shit-can — to dismiss from a job or position.
- sigmatic — characterized by a Greek letter sigma or a Roman S added to a word or stem
- silastic — a flexible inert silicone rubber, used esp in prosthetic medicine
- silicate — Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.
- silvatic — of or relating to the forest; sylvan
- sinaitic — Also called Sinai Peninsula. a peninsula in NE Egypt, at the N end of the Red Sea between the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba. 230 miles (370 km) long.
- sit back — relax, rest
- societal — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- socratic — of or relating to Socrates or his philosophy, followers, etc., or to the Socratic method.
- sonicate — a thing which has been subjected to sound waves
- speciate — to form or develop into a new biological species
- spiccato — (of violin music) performed with short, abrupt, rebounding motions of the bow.
- stacking — a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.
- stanzaic — an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.
- statical — pertaining to or characterized by a fixed or stationary condition.
- staticky — containing or producing static electricity.
- sterical — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- sticcado — a type of xylophone
- stick at — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stickjaw — a food item that is difficult to chew such as toffee
- stickman — croupier (def 1).
- stomatic — pertaining to the mouth.
- straicht — straight
- subotica — a city in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, in N Serbia.
- suitcase — a usually rectangular piece of luggage especially for carrying clothes while traveling.
- sultanic — the sovereign of an Islamic country.
- suricate — a small, burrowing South African carnivore, Suricata suricatta, of a grayish color with dark bands across the back, related to the mongooses and having social behavior similar to that of prairie dogs.
- sylvatic — sylvan.
- synaptic — Also called syndesis. Cell Biology. the pairing of homologous chromosomes, one from each parent, during early meiosis.
- syncytia — a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm that is not separated into cells.
- tachisme — action painting (def 1).