10-letter words containing c, a, i, s
- larithmics — the study of quantitative relations in population aggregates.
- larvicides — Plural form of larvicide.
- lascivious — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- laser disc — video, audio format: optical disc
- last-ditch — done finally in desperation to avoid defeat, failure, disaster, etc.: a last-ditch attempt to avert war.
- laticifers — Plural form of laticifer.
- launchings — Plural form of launching.
- laviscious — (nonstandard) Lascivious.
- legalistic — strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription, especially to the letter rather than the spirit.
- lemniscate — a plane curve generated by the locus of the point at which a variable tangent to a rectangular hyperbola intersects a perpendicular from the center to the tangent. Equation: r 2 = 2 a 2 cosθ.
- lewis acid — any substance capable of forming a covalent bond with a base by accepting a pair of electrons from it.
- lexicalise — Alternative spelling of lexicalize.
- licensable — formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- life class — nude drawing lesson
- life space — a spatial representation of all the forces that control a person's behaviour
- lightfaces — Plural form of lightface.
- liliaceous — of or like the lily.
- line space — (on a typewriter, typesetter, printer, or the like) the horizontal space provided for a line of typing, typesetting, printing, etc.
- linecaster — the casting of an entire line of type in a slug.
- lisichansk — a city in E Ukraine, on the Donets River, NE of Donetsk.
- literacies — Plural form of literacy.
- lithoclast — an instrument used to break up bladder stones
- local sign — the information from a receptor in the eye or the skin signifying respectively a direction in space or a given point on the body
- localising — Present participle of localise.
- localities — Plural form of locality.
- localizers — Plural form of localizer.
- logistical — of or relating to logistics.
- loquacious — talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous: a loquacious dinner guest.
- lubricants — Plural form of lubricant.
- lubricates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lubricate.
- luciferase — (enzyme) Any one of a group of enzymes that produce bioluminescence by oxidizing luciferin.
- lunchpails — Plural form of lunchpail.
- lymphatics — Plural form of lymphatic.
- lysimachus — 361?–281 b.c, Macedonian general: king of Thrace 306–281.
- maastricht — a city in the SE Netherlands, on the Maas River.
- macadamias — Plural form of macadamia.
- macadamise — to pave by laying and compacting successive layers of broken stone, often with asphalt or hot tar.
- macaronics — Plural form of macaronic.
- macchiatos — Plural form of macchiato.
- machinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of machinate.
- machinists — Plural form of machinist.
- macintrash — /mak'in-trash"/ The Apple Macintosh, as described by a hacker who doesn"t appreciate being kept away from the *real computer* by the interface. The term maggotbox has been reported in regular use in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. Compare Macintoy. See also beige toaster, WIMP environment, point-and-drool interface, drool-proof paper, user-friendly.
- mackintosh — Charles Rennie [ren-ee] /ˈrɛn i/ (Show IPA), 1868–1928, Scottish architect and designer.
- macmonnies — Frederick William, 1863–1937, U.S. sculptor.
- macrolides — Plural form of macrolide.
- macroprism — a prism belonging to an orthorhombic crystal found between the macropinacoid and the unit prism
- macroseism — A severe earthquake.
- macrosomia — (pathology) The state (of a foetus or neonate) of being abnormally large.
- macrosomic — (pathology) Relating to or affected by macrosomia.
- maestricht — Maastricht.